Useful Websites

Handouts from the conference that are available on the ILF website: http://www.ilfonline.org/main/2012-annual-conference-handouts-and-presentations/

Book Trailers with Animoto:

http://animoto.com/.

Worksheet for developing a book trailer: http://www.ilfonline.org/clientuploads/Animoto%20Rubric.pdf.

The presenter has many book trailers posted on her school’s library media page and they were created by high school students:

http://www.shenandoah.k12.in.us/education/components/links/links.php?sectiondetailid=3511&linkid=nav-menu-container-4-22669

They are on the Shenandoah High School site, www.shenandoah.k12.in.us. Click on ‘School Media Center.

See some of our recently created videos on the Cedar Lake Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cedar-Lake-Branch-Library/121851962662

And on the Teen blog:

http://cedarlakelibrary.blogspot.com/

Every Child Ready to Read:

• ECRR: Hartford County Public Library—ideas-- http://hcplonline.org/kids/
• Three types of literacy: http://nces.ed.gov/NAAL/literacytypes.asp
• Brain Facts & Myths: http://www.positscience.com/brain-resources/brain-facts-myths
• Center for the Developing Child: Closing the Gap Between What We Know and What We Do: http://developingchild.harvard.edu/ (interactive, includes video)
• Pdf of above: http://www.cdph.ca.gov/healthinfo/healthyliving/childfamily/Documents/MO-ECCS-ScienceEarlyChildhoodDev.pdf
• The 5 Practices and Early Literacy Components Support Each Other: http://www.earlylit.net/workshopmats/elest2/elcomppracchart.pdf
• Early brain development and effects of early literacy learning: http://www.urbanchildinstitute.org/why-0-3/baby-and-brain
• Indianapolis Star article about the dismal state of early childhood education in Indiana:

                http://www.indystar.com/article/20120915/NEWS1003/209150328/Our-Children-Our-City-Indiana-we-fail-our-children-thinking-early-learning-optional-not-essential

How to Be Effective, Keynote Address:

• Full text of Peter Bromberg’s talk, How to Be Effective: http://peterbromberg.com/indiana/FRAMECHANGE.pdf
• Slideshow of his presentation: http://www.ilfonline.org/main/2012-annual-conference-handouts-and-presentations/
• Or on his webpage: http://www.peterbromberg.com/

Pinterest Basics:

Slideshow and text of presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/melissadragoo/pinterest-basics-15176828        

Library Pinterest Pages of Interest:

•  http://pinterest.com/nypl                         
• http://pinterest.com/topekalibrary
• http://pinterest.com/fullertonpl
• http://pinterest.com/hcpl
• http://pinterest.com/oplteenzone/
• http://pinterest.com/grimshawlibrary/
• http://pinterest.com/scplteens/
• http://pinterest.com/mcplmo
• http://pinterest.com/fwlys
• http://pinterest.com/heplys (presenter’s library's account)

Pinterest  Useful articles from Presentation:

• http://www.davidleeking.com/2012/03/15/pinterest-for-libraries-what-were-dtoing/#.UKLzrYfj8nk
• http://edudemic.com/2012/03/20-ways-libraries-are-using-pinterest-right-now/
• http://libraryjournal.com/2012/02/industry-news/use-pinterest-to-promote-your-programs-and-services/
• http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-03-09/tech/31138590_1_dmca-copyright:holder-social-media
• http://www.businessinsider.com/commenting-could-keep-pinterest-from-getting-sued-2012-3

Teen Readers’ Advisory

These presenters booktalked many popular teen books in a variety of categories. Find these books and the categorized lists on Goodreads:

http://goodreads.com/striking_gold

Resources to know:

• Alex Awards – http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/alex - Given annually to ten books published for adults that have wide crossover appeal for teens.
• The Cybils Awards – http://www.cybils.com – Check out the shortlists and the award winners for books that combine literary merit and teen appeal.
• Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award – http://www.ala.org/yalsa/nonfiction
• The Printz Award – http://www.ala.org/yalsa/printz - Given annually to the teen book with the most literary merit
•  “Rosie” Awards – http://www.ilfonline.org/programs-awards/eliot-rosewater-indiana-high-school-book-award - Indiana High School book award for young adult fiction.
• YALSA Book Lists – http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklistsawards/booklistsbook - GREAT resources for readers’ advisory, these lists include the annual Best Fiction for Young Adults and the Teens’ Top Ten. Teens’ Top Ten is a list of titles nominated and voted by teens.
• Young Hoosier Book Award – http://www.ilfonline.org/programs-awards/young-hoosier-book-award/ - Indiana state book award for picture books, intermediate, and middle grade fiction.
• What’s Next Books in Series database – http://ww2.kdl.org/libcat/whatsnext.asp - Free place to find series books in order and print easy-to- read lists. Developed by the Kent District Library in West Michigan.

Blogs to check out:

These blogs contain reviews of great new teen and tween books and highlight upcoming releases.

• Forever Young Adult – http://foreveryoungadult.com
• Guys Lit Wire – http://guyslitwire.blogspot.com
• Stacked – http://www.stackedbooks.org
• The Story Siren – http://www.thestorysiren.com
  

The Web in My World presented by Karen Ault               

• https://sites.google.com/site/bccscprodev/webworld

This is a table of useful and mostly free websites, from Wordle (building word clouds for free) to Animoto—making free online videos.

Pinterest Basics

Presented by Melissa Dragoo, Youth Services Librarian, Hamilton East Public Library

Find the Power Point from this presentation at http://www.slideshare.net/melissadragoo/pinterest-basics-15176828

Pinterest is an electronic pin board that allows you to organize what you find on the Internet, pin them, and organize them by topic. With Pinterest you can advertise what the library is doing—you can organize pins by  collections organized by category or craft ideas, for example. Many people (and libraries) use Pinterest to post ideas and organize them and to store ideas for future projects. You can also use Pinterest as a way to promote your library.

Pinterest was founded in 2010. It is used personally and by businesses. Users can follow people and they can follow you.

The mission of Pinterest describes what it does:

Our goal is to connect everyone in the world through the 'things' they find interesting. We think that a favorite book, toy, or recipe can reveal a common link between two people. With millions of new pins added every week, Pinterest is connecting people all over the world based on shared tastes and interests.

Sign up for free: www.pinterest.com.

Sign up with an email address, not Facebook. Your user name will be your url and your account name will be displayed on your Pinterest page. When setting up a library account, use the following example:

Choosing your Username and Account Name

Example: Generic Public Library

User Name: www.pinterest.com/gpl

Account Name:

First Name: Generic; Last Name: Public Library

 Once you have set up your account, follow five boards. Then create your first board. Leave social networks off.

To unfollow a board, click on the unfollow button. You can also choose to follow only one category on a board. You can also pin people or libraries to follow. Look for pinners and then click ‘follow’. Borrow from the best and add it to your board. You can also pin ideas from websites. Consider categories for your board, such as favorite books.  Consider an interactive board—“What are you reading?” Create a page for the town and answer questions about the town’s history. American Libraries Magazine has interactive pins.

If you click your add button, you can choose ‘add a pin’, Then you will type in a website address. Pinterest will search for images you can pin. If your library has a blog, this is a great way to add original content of what you are doing at your library as well as promoting your organization

Doing

If you have an upcoming program, you can promote it via Pinterest.

 You can also link to your program sign-up pages.

Show library information on your board. Include specific programs you’re doing and other pins that fit the theme.

Show an awards board, such as Newbery or Pulitzer. The presenter suggested that one of the best ways for libraries to use Pinterest is to create visual bibliographies.  For example,  pin all of the Newbery books,  include a brief summary and the year it won. Visually, this type of pin is incredibly appealing. You can link it back to our catalog. If your catalog doesn’t include images, you can upload your own image and link it to your catalog that way.

 Use good keywords for your pins—that is how others find your pin. Promote buttons so that the pins link to your webpage.

You can’t move pins around. They appear in chronological order.

 Set up a policy for the use of Pinterest by your library.

                Guidelines

                Number of pins per week

                Decide which staff members will be responsible.

                Decide whether or not non staff may pin.

                Determine the staff member responsible for monitoring the library’s  Pinterest page.

                Add Pinterest policies to the library’s social media policies.

There was great concern  early this year that all Pinterest content was in violation of copyright terms.

A "nopin" HTML meta tag was released by Pinterest on 20 February 2012 to allow websites to opt out of their images being pinned. On 24 February 2012, Flickr implemented the code to allow users to opt out their photos.

Pinterest released a statement in March 2012 saying it believed it was protected by the DMCA's safe harbor provisions.  No major copyright lawsuits have emerged as of March 2012.

In early May 2012, the site added automatic attribution of authors on images originating from Flickr, Behance, YouTube and Vimeo. Automatic attribution was also added for Pins from sites mirroring content on Flickr. At the same time Flickr added a Pin shortcut to its share option menu to users who have not opted out of sharing their images.

In March 2012, Pinterest unveiled updated terms of service that ended the site's claims of ownership once implemented in April. "Selling content was never our intention", said the company in a blog post.

 To be safe about copyright, type the original description. If you are pinning images, use  advanced searches and filter for usage rights.

The burden is on the infringed party to notify you to remove an item.

Library Pinterest Pages of Interest:

http://pinterest.com/nypl                

http://pinterest.com/topekalibrary

http://pinterest.com/fullertonpl

http://pinterest.com/hcpl

http://pinterest.com/oplteenzone/

http://pinterest.com/grimshawlibrary/

http://pinterest.com/scplteens/

http://pinterest.com/mcplmo

http://pinterest.com/fwlys
http://pinterest.com/heplys (presenter’s library's account)

Useful articles:

http://davidliiking.com/

http://www.davidleeking.com/2012/03/15/pinterest-for-libraries-what-were-dtoing/#.UKLzrYfj8nk

http://edudemic.com/2012/03/20-ways-libraries-are-using-pinterest-right-now/

http://libraryjournal.com/2012/02/industry-news/use-pinterest-to-promote-your-programs-and-services/

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-03-09/tech/31138590_1_dmca-copyright:holder-social-media

http://www.businessinsider.com/commenting-could-keep-pinterest-from-getting-sued-2012-3

How to Be Effective

Keynote address presented by Peter Bromberg. Click on his name to link to his webpage for links to this presentation and others. He is an assistant director at Princeton Public Library in New Jersey, a trained personal coach, and a Library Journal Mover and Shaker.

The full text of his talk is available here. It is informative and entertaining--and well worth reading.
My notes are available here.

The slide show is available above on his website or here.

Effectiveness is the ability to bring about the results you desire.
Two principles affect effectiveness. The first is that we are now encountering an exponential pace of change, unprecedented in our history. The fast pace of technology and its changes raises our customers' expectations of us.
An entertaining look at the pace of change and our shifting expectations because of that pace. Or here.

This exponential change requires the ability to react quickly and decisively. It requires that the organization flatten so that power and decision-making is shared by all employees. Valve is an extreme example of a flattened organization. The key to having a flattened organization is to have a strong vision.

There are still universal and timeless strategies for change and developing effectiveness. We need to choose our thoughts and behaviors to increase our resourcefulness. Sometimes we feel stuck, and unable to see a path forward, a little like this. (very humorous representation of at least someone you know!)

One of the most effective ways to find the path forward is to ask ourselves questions. Time management is really energy management, which is really about attention management.

Ask:

1.       What do I want?

2.       What actions have I taken?

3.       Have I moved in the right direction?

4.       What WILL I do?

When we think about what we want, we often are thinking about strategy, not what we want., but a strategy for getting what we really want.

                Take Action The only way to be effective is to actually take action.

1.       Reflect on what you’ve already tried.

2.       Assess whether those choices moved you in the right direction.

3.       Generate options for next steps.

4.       Make a commitment to take action.

These steps are a highly effective model for action, but only if you include accountability. Tell a 3^rd party about what action you are committing to and have them follow up with you to ask if you did it. Having someone follow up keeps you moving forward and helps you remain in action, focused on your goals.

 

Self-Care is required to be more effective. When we are healthy in body and mind, we are happier, more creative, more energized and more effective.  The body and mind are intertwined, a system that requires taking care of one to take care of the other. Such care increases your available energy level. 

 

We also need a basic understanding of personal behavior.

Emotional Intelligence:

                Self-Knowledge

                Regulate emotions, so you can make choices

                Know others

                Adapt to others

Learn personality types from various assessments, including Myers-Briggs, DISC, Enneagram, and Strengthfinders.

Two highly recommended books for learning about personality:

Type Talk at Work: How the16 Personality Types Determine Your Success on the Job by Otto Kroeger 

The 9 Ways of Working: How to Use the Enneagram to Discover Your Natural Strengths and Work More Effectively by Michael Goldberg

When you understand your own personality type and that of others, you can adjust your behavior to the style of others. You can tailor your approach to become more effective. This is the Platinum rule: “Treat others the way they want to be treated.”

Understanding differences is important, but so is learning more about the ways in which we are all the same. We all share traits, not all of them intuitive. Recommended books that explain  how we make decisions, how we can grow and communicate ideas, how we can manage change and motivate ourselves and others include:

Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely  

 Made to Stick by ChipHeath  

Switch: How to Change ThingsWhen Change Is Hard by Chip Heath

Drive: The Surprising TruthAbout What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink 

Learn about your own and others' personality types to that you can follow the Platinum Rule: Treat Others the Way They Want to Be Treated.

Learning the Principles of Engagement will help you better engage library users. They in turn will better see the value in their library. 

At a user experience conference Jesse James Garrett suggested that people can be engaged in four primary ways:

1.       Perception (senses)

2.       Action (body)

3.       Cognition (mind)

4.       Emotion (heart)

The more the library hits on all these modes, the more engaged people will be. Think about the library’s physical space, website, and programs with these principles in mind. You will see ways to better engage your patrons and they will perceive more value in their library.

*Here's an example of how an understanding of the principles of engagement can be used.
Fun can change behavior for the better.

The most important thing to do now is to try these ideas. Decide what you want, commit to action and find someone to follow up with, asking what you did and what you will do next. These ideas are simple, but transformative.