h4. Week 2: Table of Contents
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h2. Topic/Focus: Strategic Management Issues
* Strategic management issues as it relates specifically to library technologies and project management
* Trends spotting: Shifting trend in libraries as it relates to technologies and tools
* Staffing: Core competencies, keeping staff motivated and engaged, growing outside their comfort zones
* Managing resources and budgets including consolidation and downsizing
* Funding, grants
* Selling ideas to management
* Organizational policies and politics
h2. Speaker(s)
* Sam Clay, Director, Fairfax County Public Library, Fairfax, Virginia
h2. Exercises and Assignments
h3. Hands-on Training in Class
* We'll play around with [Nitle's Marratech Web conferencing application|http://meet.nitle.org/nitle.html] and learn more about its features and functionality in preparation for Week 3's class. Please see our [discussion forums|Documentation for using Marratech (or MIV) and leave your feedback about the tool] area for basic requirements and tutorials.
* {color:#ff0000}{*}_\*_{*}{color}{color:#ff0000}{*}{_}Remember to bring your headsets to this class as well as to all our additional classes._{*}{color}{color:#ff0000}_\**\*_{color}
h3. Independent Learning
Complete the following items before we meet for Week 2's class:
* Go through SLA's [23 Things RSS & Newsreaders module|http://wiki.sla.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=8355874] to learn more about RSS and readers.
* Start monitoring sites using Google reader (or an alternative reader like Bloglines).
** Add the following RSS feeds to your feed reader: [Current Cites|http://lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/], Forrester's blog for [Information & Knowledge Management Professionals|http://blogs.forrester.com/information_management/], [Second Life Library Project|http://infoisland.org/], and [Second Life Things To Do|http://www.slthingstodo.com/main/].
** Select a minimum of five more sites that are RSS enabled that relate to information technologies and/or project management. Add selected sites to your Google reader.
h2. Readings and Resources
h3. Topic-focused
* de Stricker, Ulla (March 2008). "When 'Trust Me, It's a Good Idea,' Won't Cut It," _Searcher,_ 16(3), p. 30 (6). Available on [ProQuest|http://proquest.umi.com/]. Notes: Article offers a good structure for building a business case. (See _[_restricted readings_|~khuffman:Readings (restricted)]_ _area._)
* 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 sections (PDF): [Introduction|http://www.oclc.org/reports/pdfs/sharing_introduction.pdf] (and methodology) and [U.S. Library Directors|http://www.oclc.org/reports/pdfs/sharing_part4.pdf].
* Special Libraries Association's (SLA) Competencies for Information Professionals. URL: [http://www.sla.org/content/learn/comp2003/index.cfm] (accessed 6/29/2008).
* WebJunction's Sustaining Public Access Computing Programs: Technology and Management Competencies. URL: [http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=15659] (accessed 1/1/2009). Please read the following two PDFs:
** [Public Access Computing Technology Competencies|http://www.webjunction.org/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=3637393&name=DLFE-600292.pdf] (PDF)
** [Sustaining Public Access Computing Programs|http://www.webjunction.org/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=3637393&name=DLFE-600293.pdf] (PDF)
h3. Team Experience
* Jennings, Nancy, and Chris Collins (2007). "Virtual or Virtually U: Educational Institutions in Second Life," _International Journal of Social Sciences,_ 2 (3), 180-187. URL: [http://www.waset.org/ijss/v2/v2-3-28.pdf] (accessed 1/4/2009).
* Professional associations:
** ALA's wiki: Second Life. URL: [http://wikis.ala.org/professionaltips/index.php/Second_Life] (accessed 4/3/2008).
** SLA's wiki: Second Life. URL: [http://wiki.sla.org/display/SLASECONDLIFE/] (accessed 7/12/2008).
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h2. Topic/Focus: Strategic Management Issues
* Strategic management issues as it relates specifically to library technologies and project management
* Trends spotting: Shifting trend in libraries as it relates to technologies and tools
* Staffing: Core competencies, keeping staff motivated and engaged, growing outside their comfort zones
* Managing resources and budgets including consolidation and downsizing
* Funding, grants
* Selling ideas to management
* Organizational policies and politics
h2. Speaker(s)
* Sam Clay, Director, Fairfax County Public Library, Fairfax, Virginia
h2. Exercises and Assignments
h3. Hands-on Training in Class
* We'll play around with [Nitle's Marratech Web conferencing application|http://meet.nitle.org/nitle.html] and learn more about its features and functionality in preparation for Week 3's class. Please see our [discussion forums|Documentation for using Marratech (or MIV) and leave your feedback about the tool] area for basic requirements and tutorials.
* {color:#ff0000}{*}_\*_{*}{color}{color:#ff0000}{*}{_}Remember to bring your headsets to this class as well as to all our additional classes._{*}{color}{color:#ff0000}_\**\*_{color}
h3. Independent Learning
Complete the following items before we meet for Week 2's class:
* Go through SLA's [23 Things RSS & Newsreaders module|http://wiki.sla.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=8355874] to learn more about RSS and readers.
* Start monitoring sites using Google reader (or an alternative reader like Bloglines).
** Add the following RSS feeds to your feed reader: [Current Cites|http://lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/], Forrester's blog for [Information & Knowledge Management Professionals|http://blogs.forrester.com/information_management/], [Second Life Library Project|http://infoisland.org/], and [Second Life Things To Do|http://www.slthingstodo.com/main/].
** Select a minimum of five more sites that are RSS enabled that relate to information technologies and/or project management. Add selected sites to your Google reader.
h2. Readings and Resources
h3. Topic-focused
* de Stricker, Ulla (March 2008). "When 'Trust Me, It's a Good Idea,' Won't Cut It," _Searcher,_ 16(3), p. 30 (6). Available on [ProQuest|http://proquest.umi.com/]. Notes: Article offers a good structure for building a business case. (See _[_restricted readings_|~khuffman:Readings (restricted)]_ _area._)
* 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 sections (PDF): [Introduction|http://www.oclc.org/reports/pdfs/sharing_introduction.pdf] (and methodology) and [U.S. Library Directors|http://www.oclc.org/reports/pdfs/sharing_part4.pdf].
* Special Libraries Association's (SLA) Competencies for Information Professionals. URL: [http://www.sla.org/content/learn/comp2003/index.cfm] (accessed 6/29/2008).
* WebJunction's Sustaining Public Access Computing Programs: Technology and Management Competencies. URL: [http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=15659] (accessed 1/1/2009). Please read the following two PDFs:
** [Public Access Computing Technology Competencies|http://www.webjunction.org/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=3637393&name=DLFE-600292.pdf] (PDF)
** [Sustaining Public Access Computing Programs|http://www.webjunction.org/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=3637393&name=DLFE-600293.pdf] (PDF)
h3. Team Experience
* Jennings, Nancy, and Chris Collins (2007). "Virtual or Virtually U: Educational Institutions in Second Life," _International Journal of Social Sciences,_ 2 (3), 180-187. URL: [http://www.waset.org/ijss/v2/v2-3-28.pdf] (accessed 1/4/2009).
* Professional associations:
** ALA's wiki: Second Life. URL: [http://wikis.ala.org/professionaltips/index.php/Second_Life] (accessed 4/3/2008).
** SLA's wiki: Second Life. URL: [http://wiki.sla.org/display/SLASECONDLIFE/] (accessed 7/12/2008).