Week 9: Table of Contents
Topic/Focus: Forecasting, Planning, and Implementing
- Technology forecasting, trend spotting, planning and implementing
- Hardware and software requirements
- Solutions: Hybrid approach, hosted/SaaS vs. non-hosted solutions, open source vs. enterprise solutions
- Accessibility: Defining your user group/population you serve (access, demographics, special needs)
- Ongoing maintenance/management issues, financing/budgeting, roles & responsibilities
- Negotiation, working with external and internal partners
- Roles and responsibilities, alliances within and outside your organization
- Long-term management of systems and data, conversion, and migration issues
Speaker via Web Conference
- Stacey Greenwell, Head of the Information Commons (the Hub) in the William T. Young Library, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
- To access Nitle's Marratech, go to http://meet.nitle.org/nitle.html >> click on the link for CUASLIS-MV2 Room. Enter the username/password assigned to you at the beginning of class.
- Presentation: Technology Planning (PPT)
Exercises and Assignments
- Project due: What's Your View Project (10 pts) - In-class co-led presentation/discussion by Albert Bakasara Kazooba and Ryan McPherson.
Hands-on Training in Class
- No hands-on training scheduled for today's class.
Independent Learning
Complete the following items before we meet for Week 9's class:
- SL Team Project for All groups -- Drivers, Hunters, Gathers, and Builders (Google Docs/PPT): Brainstorm and outline key steps/tasks your team plans to work for your area. Bring your ideas to class or share with the Drivers though the wiki who will start pulling the major tasks into a project plan.
- Additional note for SL Team Drivers: There are three possible tools you could use for building the project plan/tasklists. Determine which tool you think might work best for the group. To get you started, I've posted some ideas to our Discussion Forum: Ideas about Project Management Applications.
- Builders Brainstorm See some initial thoughts and questions by the Builders group.
Readings and Resources
Topic-focused
- Golvin, Charles S., and Schadler, Ted (July 2008). The State of Consumers and Technology: Benchmark 2008. Cambridge, MA: Forrester. (See restricted readings area.)
- Johnson, L., Levine, A., & Smith, R. (2009). The 2009 Horizon Report (PDF). Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium.
- OCLC's Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World. A 2007 report to OCLC membership. URL: http://www.oclc.org/reports/sharing/default.htm (accessed 1/1/2009). Please review the following section (PDF): Libraries and Social Networking.
- Rainie, Lee (2009). Presentation on Technology and Media Use entitled "How libraries can survive in the new media ecosystem," Pew/Internet. URL: http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/257/presentation_display.asp (accessed 1/24/2009).
- St. Clair, Guy (2008). "Software-as-a-Service (SAAS): Put the Focus on the KM/Knowledge Service Core Function," SMR International. URL: http://www.smr-knowledge.com/articles/EOS SaaS White Paper 2008.pdf (accessed 1/4/2009).
Team Experience
- Willis, Holly (2008). "Infrastructures in Virtual Learning," New Media Consortium's 2008 conference proceedings. URL: http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Willis.pdf (PDF) (accessed 1/24/2009).
Optional Readings
- Horrigan, John (2008). Report on technology and media use entitled "Home Broadband 2008: Adoption Stalls for Low-income Americans Even as Many Broadband Users Opt for Premium Services that Give Them More Speed," Pew/Internet. URL: http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/257/report_display.asp (accessed 1/24/2009).
- PALINET's Leadership Network: Technology Trends. 2009 trends gathered and summarized by Walt Crawford from various sources, with additional sections (as marked) by Leslie Dillon.