Sunday, March 26, 2006

Library Perspex 2006

I went to a work ‘presentation’ on 21 Feb this year with a number of other staff members. The idea was to get broader recognition and understanding of various large scale library projects through a bit of information dissemination from the key players (read ‘management’). On the whole this was pretty boring, though there were some interesting parts. To help wile away the morning I took copious notes from each speaker’s session, but only the words that appealed to me at the time. The following are those notes – a kind of summary of the morning, and more importantly, the pies the library has its fingers in. I hope you get some perspective from these as I have…

(NB: Speakers’ names have been shortened to initials to provide some measure of anonymity)


INTRODUCTION
HR said:
stars; airing; initiatives; Jill; approximately; wrap; schedule; hop.


KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
JC said: too many; challenging; doing; institutional; statistics; Australasia; UNSW; same; bibliographic; blitz; 2 or 3 thousand; Springer; fine; usage; point; huge; centre; here; classy; substantial; engineers; ratio; 80s; can; landscape; library; servicing; declining; country; to like; contestable; reliance; markets; Bologna; Scandinavian; attracted; smarten; major; last; crazy; lucky; leverage; special; subscribed; actions; allowed; giving; impact; event; 94; roll; with; the web; good; ensure; sons; issue; one; vendors; clear; design; mechanisms; job; expectations; face-to-face; solo; incorporate; huge; ahead; campus; pipes; hiccups; devices; rate; directory; size; least; data; levels; one; RIMS; critical; position; software; faculty; running; videos; network; self-service; deliver; gateway; sensible; help; overly; exciting; letters; jump; commons; capital; even; keep; whether; recognised; harder; enormously; law; emails; more; poetry; images; costly; skills; adopted; senate; pays; numbers; huge; again; library; marketing; tailor; us; interim; moment; paranoid; ran; mark; utilised; image; tomorrow; ensure; I; year; outages; loan; not; down; just; align; area; e-books; maximise; graduate; huge; really; papers; pilot; grid; around; won; anything.

BF said: monkey; then; stages; podcasts; spectrum; couple; Britain; tools; concept; dump; capture; been; server; masses; tree; multi; our; 50; floppy; files; essence; migrate; virtual; key; store; well; medium; output; background; South Hampton; theses; harvest; bells; widely; sophisticated; manage; intelligence; end; hierarchical; worth; please; remains; remove; perl; persistent; on; article; happening; repositories; should; access; providing; model; grabs; takes; knew; benefits; likelihood; tiered; Google; efficiency; report; tap; quickly; understand; won’t materials; overheads; charges; mean; live; visible; hosting; thoughts; relationship; other; instance; talking; economics; grey; many; dynamic; different; library; published; links; voluntary; starting; need; using; cancel; always; academics; value; barbs; dissatisfaction; growth; way; text; players; finishing; advisory; plans; scope; agreed; fill out; aware; soon; Janet; new; better; limited; how; consent; morning; aggregating; peer; English; international; alternative; part; learn; presentations; tearoom; worries; seamless; related; directly; gentleman; embedded; ironing; complete; front; still; redefinition; light; Cecil; committee; backwards; curve; creation; easier; more; driving; listed; available; Voyager; inside; interesting; Pacific; open; protocols; touch; develop; dub dub dub; possible; feeds; books; reader; tour; download; watch; tackle; streaming; customise; revamp; look; things; all; changes; digital; pulled; concerned; OPAC; resolvers; product; requirements; stuff; reliant; priorities; rebranding; types; space; search; local; layer; philosophy; boil; outsourcing; support; struggled; Z39.50; flavours; scraping; doesn’t; XML; speak; among; suppose; interface; terms; automatic; from; collections; federated; unknown; button; elsewhere; wait; pretty.

CW & JI said: thank you; dual; leaping; most; raise; bit; exchange; Australia; standards; conform; now; compliant; 2004; live; staff; aim; via; where; emphasise; been; patron; simultaneously; slows; reasons; yeah; default; friendly; come; advanced; number; click; status; missing; ahead; preferred; off; want; know; holdings; individual; save; option; entries; guess; system; somebody; ILL; populated; chapter; change; right; pulled; other; into; straight; own; handling; turnaround; allow; progress; cause; happens; author; real; bottom; official; already; VDX; authenticated; suppressing; both; selected; well; second; best; ideal; afraid; big; extra; train; go; printed; show; face; first; free; after; charging; effective; phased; diverse; exactly; posted; even; imagine; please.

HR (ELSAC) said: core; support; being; students; experience; know; report; very; huge; speaking; language; do; need; extensive; don’t; think; okay; case; much; applied; crap; anecdote; sentence; cheese; Royce; cute; point; work; located; specialised; with; one-on-one; appropriate; catalogue; practical; audio; easy; skip; invite; analysis; computer; pickup; monitoring; services; her; scratch; done; final; enrol; essay; skills; understand; topics; job; good; use; number; pleased; quite; room; couple; portal; go; meet; stigma; consider; in; feedback; clear; asking; show; portfolio; software; deselect; context; here; ELSAC; example; run; bring.

HM said: flexible; happening; joined; single; all; new; Firefox; Acrobat; constantly; trial; even; keen; Grafton; smaller; anymore; released; your; busy; libraries; Ricohs; public; campus; implementing; cash free; unmanned; have; credit; Sylvia; wireless; issue; cause; laptops; rolled; level; places; priority; borrow; powerpoints; frequency; world; tracking; self-return; stage; writer; told; request; online; approach; novel; really; promotional.


SUMMARY
HR said:
bag launch; onions; soon; clients; free; take; buy; confronted; press; together; little; connect; shape; bumped; silly; yourself; mosaic; session; listening; applause.