Creating a Culture of Communication
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Here is a page to collect thoughts, ideas and minutes from the ML2SIG brown bag held on March 17, 2008. | Here is a page to collect thoughts, ideas and minutes from the ML2SIG brown bag held on March 17, 2008. | ||
| + | == Minutes and Notes From the Meeting == | ||
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| + | March 17: Sue Wortman (Interim Women’s Studies Librarian) on “Creating a Culture of Communication” | ||
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| + | Dave Carter convened the meeting and announced future scheduling. On April 21, Molly Kleinman will lead a discussion on using web 2.0 technologies to market library services, and in May, Bill Dueber will present (Topic?) | ||
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| + | He pointed out that the ML2SIG Wiki is underutilized and asked if there is interest in a workshop on basic wiki editing and use. The response was quite positive and he agreed to plan such an event. It will be separate from the Brown Bag sessions. | ||
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| + | Dave then introduced Sue Wortman. She began by saying that, as a result of the conversation on intra-library communications at the previous week’s Update and other conversations, she decided on a conversation which is “less 2.0” than she had originally envisioned, downplaying the technological solutions available to the problem, and focusing more on the problem itself. | ||
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| + | Main Takeaways from this discussion:''' | ||
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| + | 1. We don’t necessarily all agree on what a culture of communication is, or should be. In particular, we don’t all want or need the same information, or want to receive it in the same way. | ||
| + | 2. There is no one solution. Any steps taken should start out small and increase options, rather than change them. Some people are happy with things as they are, and steps that ML2SIG participants might see as solutions may not be greeted as such by the library as a whole. | ||
| + | 3. No real change is going to happen without administrative support. | ||
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Revision as of 08:50, 21 March 2008
Here is a page to collect thoughts, ideas and minutes from the ML2SIG brown bag held on March 17, 2008.
Minutes and Notes From the Meeting
March 17: Sue Wortman (Interim Women’s Studies Librarian) on “Creating a Culture of Communication”
Dave Carter convened the meeting and announced future scheduling. On April 21, Molly Kleinman will lead a discussion on using web 2.0 technologies to market library services, and in May, Bill Dueber will present (Topic?)
He pointed out that the ML2SIG Wiki is underutilized and asked if there is interest in a workshop on basic wiki editing and use. The response was quite positive and he agreed to plan such an event. It will be separate from the Brown Bag sessions.
Dave then introduced Sue Wortman. She began by saying that, as a result of the conversation on intra-library communications at the previous week’s Update and other conversations, she decided on a conversation which is “less 2.0” than she had originally envisioned, downplaying the technological solutions available to the problem, and focusing more on the problem itself. Main Takeaways from this discussion:
1. We don’t necessarily all agree on what a culture of communication is, or should be. In particular, we don’t all want or need the same information, or want to receive it in the same way. 2. There is no one solution. Any steps taken should start out small and increase options, rather than change them. Some people are happy with things as they are, and steps that ML2SIG participants might see as solutions may not be greeted as such by the library as a whole. 3. No real change is going to happen without administrative support.
Those who attended this brownbag
- Ken Varnum
- Mars DeRitis
- Becky Dunkle
- David Peck
- Charlene Stachnik
- Liene Karels
- Molly Kleinman
- Catherine Morse
- Martin Knott
- Nichole Scholtz
- Margie Morris
- Kari Tant
- Shevon Desai
- Gary Munce
- Kat Hagedorn
- Elliot Gertel
- David Carter
- Beth Helmbold
- Sue Wortman
