All nodes but Egypt represented plus some guests from Atlas of Living Australia and Melbourne Museum
Friday, January 31, 2014
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Money, tickets, passports ... check check and check
Heading off for some BHL meetings, heading West, to go East ...
Friday, January 24, 2014
@BryanAlexander on The Hope and the Hype of MOOCs at #ALAMW14 from @OCLC
The Hope and the Hype of MOOCs
Speaker: Bryan Alexander, Senior Fellow
of NITLE; Skip Prichard (OCLC, moderator)
Panel: Anya Kamentz (Fast Company); Ray
Schroeder (University of Illinois, Springfield); Audrey Watters (Hack
Education); Cathy De Rosa (OCLC)
Performed a live poll of audience and
webcaster audience (using text and website); most (small majority)
said MOOCs were more hope than hype; most also never participated in
a MOOC.
Bryan Alexander
Gave a quick overview and history of
MOOCs; began roughly in 2008 in Canada, these are the cMOOCs; later,
around 2010, the xMOOCs were formed at the large universities
(Standford, MIT). 2012 is the start of the MOOC boom as they started
to turn into a business (Udacity); NYTimes declared 2013 the year of
the MOOC and now 2014 is the year of great disillusion.
- cMOOCs are more ground up; more open; rarely licensed; remixable. Still trying to figure that out; “freemium” not proven yet.
- What is the business model for MOOCs?
- CP Snow's “Two Cultures” divide is heavily played out in MOOCs; lots of work and acceptance in science, but less so in the humanities.
- cMOOCs are more ground up; more open; rarely licensed; remixable. Still trying to figure that out; “freemium” not proven yet. Coursera, Udemy; edX; Khan Academy; Uudactiy) are still looking for a model; many turning to corporate education (easier money) and many of them may crash.
- MOOCs are likely to follow the Gartner Hype Cycle curve: excitement, Trough of Disillusionment, Slope of Enlightenment; Plateau of Productivity
- MOOCs may become “Just part of life” or become MOCs (turned soley towards for profit); lastly, we may see a xMOOC / cMOOC fusion where the connective nature of cMOOCs is co-opted to make xMOOCs more interactive.
@OCLC CEO Skip Pritchard at the Americas Regional Council meeting at #ALAMW14
OCLC Americas Regional Council Business
Meeting
24 January 2014
Jean Treadwell, OCLC Americas Regional
Council Chair
Quick overview of the OCLC ARC council;
elections are coming up for ARC officers and delegates. Council
delegates are now broken into subsets (public, academic, museums and
archives); voting is open from 24 January to 14 March 2014. Each OCLC
member gets a vote, SIL's voting members should vote soon!
Sandy Yee, OCLC Board of Trustees Chair
(Dean, Wayne State)
“Shared Governance”
Yee discussed the overall governance
and management of OCLC. Pointed out that we are in times where things
are changing very quickly. Libraries need to be built knowing that
“the future is the platform” and to be able to make quick pivots
to reflect changing needs of the library user community. Libraries
must build collaborative partnerships, and seek partnerships that
Areas of responsibility for the OCLC
Board:
- Leadership. Work with “new” OCLC CEO Skip Prichard on direction for OCLC
- Fiduciary. Board works for strategic allocation of OCLC resources. Oversee financial and business plans prepared by management. Does not seek profit, but aims for 2-4% contribution over revenue for reinvestment for the cooperative. OCLC seeks to maintain fees in bad times and have small increases in good years.
- Mission points.
- Leverage cooperation and efficiences of scale;
- Deliver services that support the ways libraries and user work (cloud, mobile, social)
- Lead (provide leading-edge library research and promote libraries)
Skip Prichard, OCLC CEO
Has been at OCLC for about seven
months; has been busy looking around the world of OCLC membership
travelling to understand what is happening among all the pots OCLC is
involved in. Key element remains that OCLC is here for libraries and
especially member libraries.
Attended 2014 International CES this
year. CES increasingly about information as well as gadgets. Prichard
did a review of Issac Asimov's predictions for the 2014. (from 1964)
and many of them are right on (big screen TV, self-driving cars,
algae bars, etc.).
Prichard's predictions for 2014? He
won't give any because he doesn't want to see them appear in his
performance plan. He will share questions he's heard on his tour:
- Where is OCLC headed?
- Why is OCLC moving so slow?
- Why is OCLC moving so fast?
- Does a cooperative model work in the 21st century?
- What is the CEO's role?
So, how will the cooperative work:
- Explore. Look at new trends through symposia, publications, and other meetings.
- Share. OCLC moving seriously into cloud solutions; cloud will provide lower IT costs and lower service delivery costs; it is all about efficiency AND effectiveness. OCLC is looking at the following steps in cloud migration: 1) create global data netword; 2) migrate services; 3) power this through global library cooperation
- Magnify. New study “Understanding the Collective Collection” (just out); Cathy De Rosa is finalizing the report on “Mooc and Libraries.” Key thing to magnify is cooperation among libraries. [short short video of OSU professor who studies coops. 1 billion people belong to coops; many things are coops that you don't know (Best Western Hotels, REI); coops are formed by people/institutions with affinities, that have a common problem, and can't find an existing market solution.
Some new suites of tools/services:
- WorldCat Discovery Services. FirstSearch and WorldCat local coming together; creates one central index of link resolvers and A-Z list. Also includes synidation services that will integrate Google, Yelp, Goodreads, etc.
- WorldShare Interlibrary Loan is currently in migration to cloud platforms
- Global Data Network. WorldCat has 2.1 billion holdings and 3.1 million records
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Slideshare views have hit 100,000 this week; with 111 presentations, that's nearly 1,000 each ...
Which is much more than saw any one of them in person.
Here's the newest (from November 2013):
And here's the oldest (from six years ago):
And here's the oldest (from six years ago):
Monday, January 20, 2014
Friday, January 17, 2014
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Sec. Clough of @smithsonian talking about digital at #LAMFutures event
Lecture aeries sponsored by Smithsonian Libraries, Smithsonian Archives and Office of the Chief Information Officer
Sunday, January 12, 2014
QotD: "I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992" - HAL 9000
As I've noted in an earlier post, this date marks the birthday of the HAL 9000 computer. One of the great anti-heroes of 20th century film, HAL was by far the most vivid character in the Kubrick/Clarke film.
And so, here's to HAL and what would have been "his" 22nd birthday.Here is a different type of aircraft, my flight leaving from Urbana-Champaign (birthplace of HAL)
Sunday, January 05, 2014
Saturday, January 04, 2014
Friday, January 03, 2014
Still snowing in Times Square
Got interviewed by a news team who didn't think I was dressed properly
Thursday, January 02, 2014
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