Internet Librarian 2016 Schedule

W1: Searchers Academy: Reinventing Search

W2: Outcome Measures: Evaluate & Do

W3: Responsive Web Design

W4: Top Skills for Library Technologists

W5: Project Management (PM) for Libraries 101

W6: Roadmap: Planning for a Successful Library Future

W7: Social Media Strategies for Library Storytelling

W8: How Text Analytics Enhances Info Access [CANCELLED]

W9: Action Plan for Adding Value

W10: Practical Empathy for Stellar UX [CANCELLED]

W11: Tech Trends for Libraries in 2017 & Beyond

W12: Advanced Project Management: Practitioner Pointers & Insights

W13: Want to Make a Makerspace? Practical Tips, Tricks, & Strategies

W14: IT Security 101

W15: Media: Monitoring Tools & Dashboards

Cannery Row Walking Tour

Games, Gadgets, & MakerSpaces: Conference Opening Networking Event

The Impact of Deep Understanding

Understanding people comes in a lot of flavors. An uncommon flavor is understanding people deeper than explanations and opinions. It’s getting inside people’s minds to see how they achieve their larger human intentions and purposes without reference to your organization. The goal is to allow for later inspiration that represents the complicated inner world of people’s approaches, rather than being constrained by existing systems and conventions. You re-frame the way you think about the problem as if your organization does not exist. When you come back to reality after this little exploration, your deeper understanding influences the way you think about solutions. Our UX expert and speaker defines this deeper understanding, outlines how to collect the data, and illustrates how to curate the knowledge in a depiction of the reasoning- patterns (mental model diagrams) and the thinking-styles (behavioral audience segments).

Coffee Break in the Sponsor Showcase

Lunch Break - A Chance to Visit Sponsors

Networking Reception in the Sponsor Showcase

Future-Proofing Libraries

Our speaker, a journalist, screenwriter, and library advocate, shines a light on a number of projects of direct benefit to libraries seeking to “future-proof” themselves against digital disruption and the prospect of diminished funding through increased community engagement/library advocacy. He shares the Library Digital Relevancy Index. which contextualizes the results of the first industry-wide pilot of libraries examining the degree of digital future-proofing. He describes the PXI: Patron Experience Index—a dashboard platform which weighs and displays multiple strategic community key performance indicators involving libraries in community cultural/prosperity/entrepreneurship initiatives—in order to identify programming, partnership, and learning opportunities for library staff and engage library staff in “begin with the end in mind” creative media and programming processes in support of those identified opportunities. Howley discusses the OpenMedia- Desk (OMD). which pre-validates media prior to publishing online (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) in order to maximize engagement with target communities. He also talks about an open app publishing platform to support “cultural destination tourism,” in which the physical experience of exploring the “community icons” within Hamilton’s central Gore Park is digitally reproduced indoors at Hamilton Public Library’s Central Branch in a high-engagement iPhone experience using beacons—Wi-Fi transducers which trigger, via Bluetooth LTE, “proximity storytelling experiences.” This talk is sure to propel your thinking and insights into action with impact!

Coffee Break in the Sponsor Showcase

Lunch Break - A Chance to Visit Sponsors

Break in the Sponsor Showcase

Internet Librarian @ 20: Looking Forward Retrospectively

Technology That May Impact Our Future

Hear from our tech expert as he shares the technologies we should be watching over the next year. His website,www.larrysworld.comcovers technology products, reviews and policies; it links to his blogs for Forbes, San Jose Mercury News, Huffington Post & more; it provides tips on internet safety for kids and adults along with digital citizenship, online safety & civility.  Don’t miss his predictions for our audience about technology that may impact our future. Get a head start on your planning for 2017!

Coffee Break

Lunch Break

Reshaping Our Relationship With Information

This session covers the uncertainties facing the internet, from governance to encryption, from citizen journalism to Pirate Bay, from virtual reality to the latest mobile devices. Rasmus takes the audience on a journey of the future that asks as many questions as it answers, suggesting in the end, not what we know for certain, but what we should certainly pay attention to.