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Susan Swetnam - Carnegie Public Libraries - Lunch

Lunch with Susan Swetnam “Role of Women’s Clubs in establishing Idaho’s Carnegie Public Libraries”

This was a very interesting lunch presentation. She discussed how Intermountain West Carnegie libraries used different types of marketing schema to bring the library to life in their community.

1. Growth, capitalism, show we're an up and coming community with great economic prospects (promoted by Chambers of Commerce and business people)
   
2. Family values, we're emphasizing family values and providing good clean activities (promoted by religious groups)
   
3. Educating against repression (promoted by non-religious groups)
   
4. Women's Clubs used different words, but in seemed that they were raising the educational and prestige tone of the community.
   

I can't wait to buy her book once she publishes it!

Joy on the Job - day two

Fun is one way to bring joy to work

1. gain perspective
2. check belief system (the sun rises)
3. solutions
1. win win
2. talk it out
3. ask for what you need
4. Stress strengths instead of warring with weaknesses
5. Neutral space for problem solving
6. discover joy of great teamwork
1. Create hall of shame to showcase what didn’t work. This celebrates the creative process and the need for trying
7. don’t be a parent at the office
1. you cannot delegate standing up for yourself
8. Get advanced training
1. You are the CEO of your life
9. develop a sound support system
10. humor at work is good
11. enjoy work/life balance
12. develop inner harmony
13. sleep, eat right, workout
1. look for mood foods and power foods
   

Surrender what can’t be changed
Go with the flow
Call on the curious witness
Acknowledge feelings
It will tell when agonizing/fretting over something I have no control over or business about.

What are important employee motivations and morale boosters?
• Valuable contributions by sharing personal gifts, skills and talents
• Respect & fair treatment
• Pay linked to performance
• Rewarding relationships
• Create flow state, discover how to generate it in self
Not boring, not too difficult
Challenges that help learn and grow
• Develop employee strengths
• Flexible hours and other work conditions
• Encourage healthy self expression
• Support the culture
• Feedback, coaching and mentoring
• Adequate resources
• Opportunities for growth & advancement

Effective communication techniques
• Shut up and listen
• Ask: what do you want

Meaningful conflict
• Agree that disagreements are inevitable. No personal attacks
• Difficult people
Hold boundaries, don’t fight back
When personally attacked ask ‘could you please repeat that
4 / 2 breathing
Clench and release frustration

For more info see http://www.joyonthejob.info/

Joy on the Job - day two

Fun is one way to bring joy to work

1. gain perspective
2. check belief system (the sun rises)
3. solutions
a. win win
b. talk it out
c. ask for what you need
4. Stress strengths instead of warring with weaknesses
5. Neutral space for problem solving
6. discover joy of great teamwork
a. Create hall of shame to showcase what didn’t work. This celebrates the creative process and the need for trying
7. don’t be a parent at the office
a. you cannot delegate standing up for yourself
8. Get advanced training
a. You are the CEO of your life
9. develop a sound support system
10. humor at work is good
11. enjoy work/life balance
12. develop inner harmony
13. sleep, eat right, workout
a. look for mood foods and power foods

Surrender what can’t be changed
Go with the flow
Call on the curious witness
Acknowledge feelings
It will tell when agonizing/fretting over something I have no control over or business about.

What are important employee motivations and morale boosters?
• Valuable contributions by sharing personal gifts, skills and talents
• Respect & fair treatment
• Pay linked to performance
• Rewarding relationships
• Create flow state, discover how to generate it in self
o Not boring, not too difficult
o Challenges that help learn and grow
• Develop employee strengths
• Flexible hours and other work conditions
• Encourage healthy self expression
• Support the culture
• Feedback, coaching and mentoring
• Adequate resources
• Opportunities for growth & advancement

Effective communication techniques
• Shut up and listen
• Ask: what do you want

Meaningful conflict
• Agree that disagreements are inevitable. No personal attacks
• Difficult people
o Hold boundaries, don’t fight back
o When personally attacked ask ‘could you please repeat that
o 4 / 2 breathing
o Clench and release frustration

For more info see http://www.joyonthejob.info/

Podcasting - day one

Making some Noise: Podcasting & the Power of RSS

Why RSS?
1. Better consumers of information
2. creating content for users

Student Life blog for institution (hcc central) push rss feeds from library into webct, student life blogs etc…

Articles relevant to course content funneled to own pages

askaninja.com
[Podcasting is a factory for making apple pies for whales]

Library’s are recording book talks, story time, newbooks, blurb reading, local history. Participatory web

To podcast you will need sound reducing microphone headset.

Look for podsafe music

RSS building tools:
• Rss to javascript: http://www.rss-to-javascript.com
• Feed2JS: http://feed2js.org
• Feed Digest: http://www.feeddigest.com/

RSS enabled blog:
Blogger.com
Wordpress.com

Podcasting Tools

• podcasting creation
o studio.odeo.com (free use website)
o audacity.soruceforge.net (free download, don’t forget the LAME mpe encoder download)

This was a fabulous session by Shell Drumm a dynamic speaker with an easygoing style. It was a fun, interesting and informative session!!

But I Didn’t Even Like History - Lunch with author Kirby Larson

Kirby Larson is the author of Hattie Big Sky "a young adult novel she wrote inspired by her great-grandmother, Hattie Inez Brooks Wright, who homesteaded by herself in eastern Montana as a young woman."
http://www.kirbylarson.com/bio.html

A lively speaker who talked about her history, the writing process and her books.

Delightful.

GIS and Libraries - day one

How GIS technology can assist in planning for services in your little corner of the world.

Brief history of mapping technology,

Fascinating demonstration of different web uses of GIS and layers

Websites:
• http://nationalmap.gov
• http://www.census.gov/main/www/access.html
• http://www.insideidaho.org
• http://www.compassidaho.org/prodserv/mapgis-data.htm
• http://www.cityofboise.org/after3
• http://www.giscafe.com
• http://gis.idaho.gov/idaholibraries
• http://www.geolib.org/PLGDB.cfm
• http://www.geolib.org/pdf/MLSGeoMarketSize.pdf
• http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/summer06articles/colorado-state.html
• http://www.bio-diglib.com/content/1/1/3/

Keynote Speaker ILA - day one

Keynote Speaker: Reaching out to your users with technology

• 90% of those under 35 use Instant messaging, text messaging
• 90% of college students have cell phones.
• Ball state university has a mobile phone formatted web presence
• Digitizing collections, teaching community and helping them digitize their family photos, diaries etc…
• Check out http://www.yourhub.com/NextGen a participatory webnewspaper site that has 4th – 8th graders as reporters and commentators.