A brief video snippet (with added graphics) that describes why the “hi-fi” in “hi-fi sci-fi library” is key to our present and future success.
Fighting the forces of evil and oppression with your high fidelity library/librarians!
(Maybe) You’ve heard the song and seen the video. Now you can see the presentation that inspired them both!
-Hi-Fi-Sci-Fi-Library: Technology, Convergence, Content, Community, Ubiquity and Library Futures.
LITA National Forum - keynote - October 18, Cincinnati, OH
Description:
So you think it’s an interesting time to be a librarian now? Just wait! Through an examination of past trends, current tech, emerging tech, academic futurism and a dash of pop culture, we’ll take a realistic peek at where library technology is headed. We’ll then take this information and start planning what we can do now to ensure that libraries not only continue to offer our vital service, but that our role and positive contributions to society increase - perhaps quite dramatically.
The presentation is stuffed full of multi media, special effects and lots of realistic, yet fun and thought provoking surprises designed to get your mind chugging along as is contemplates the future of Libraryland. A future populated with hi-fi sci-fi libraries!
These two intro slides will be running at as people are filtering into the room (they are slightly clipped here, click to see the whole slide):
Hope to see some of you there!
Lyrics:
song: hi-fi-sci-fi Library
Here-in contains collected thoughts from our brains
when it comes to the subject of: wow!
Like: Wow, it’s amazing that for thousands of years
libraries have survived at all
The razing, book blazing, techno staff crazing
fighting competition new tech and how
to emerge like a rocketship, speedy and fast
that is demanded in our world right NOW!!!
Chorus:
Hi-fi, sci-fi, library!
Hi-fi, sci-fi, library!
S. R. Ran-ga-na-than ‘long with Benjamin Franklin,
Dewey, Kilgour and good people like YOU
Learnt that Mashed up with currents and a whole bunch of circuits
info went to many not just the few.
Now we wrestle with techno, money and limitations,
that might sometimes make a good man go “ewww”
But we’re telling you brothers, sisters, ladies and others
that we’re near a massive “Wow!” breakthrough.
it is your:
Chorus
To prepare our libraries we must be informed, explore lots
and have fun learning how to evolve.
Learn about things like gaming, social software and being
just where our users are: that brings us HUGE Wows.
Look at open-source software and the creative commons,
look at netfilx and itunes and learn how
We can take competition, turn it into fruition:
THE LIBRARY FOR TOMORROW AND NOW!
It will be:
hi-fi-sci-fi-libraries!
hi-fi-sci-fi-libraries!
Now we sometimes might wonder how to succeed not blunder
since we’re underneath the specter of “how?”
It’s a do or die sea change and we cannot just remain, what we
were before or we’ll just sink down.
Take time daily, read lib blogs, build community, and
slog the through the learning, practice, wisdom and “pow!”
It will be fun we promise, you’ll work hard but will harness
and endow your libs tomorrow with “WoW!”
The wow of:
Chorus repeated
spoken over the chorus
We can do it.
We just need to be wise
and explain the situation
in a way that’s fun and savvy
Be informed
and connect with our communities.
We must engage with em all
from the kids to my mammy
banter over chorus
*fade*”
hi-fi sci-fi librarians:
Kathryn Greenhill
Murdoch University
Fremantle, Western Australia.
librariansmatter.com
Steven Lawson
http://stevelawson.name/seealso/
Tutt Library, Colorado College
Michelle Boule and Gideon Smith
wanderingeyre.com (Michelle’s site, not Gideon’s;)
John Blyberg - Darien Library
blyberg.net
Jessamyn West
librarian.net
Nebraska Library Commission Staff:
Michael Sauers
(as himself AND an alien and sock puppet)
Allana Novotny
Susan Knisely
Christa Burns
Joanna Axelrod - Escondido Public Library
Donna Feddern – Escondido Public Library
Cindy Hickey – State Library of Kansas
webjunctionworks.org/ks/blog/
WebJunction Staff (l to r):
top:
Chrystie Hill
Michael Shapiro
Allison Severinghaus
Laura Staley
bottom:
Emily Inlow-Hood
Jennifer Peterson
Emily Warren
Laura Zingg
Chadwick Seagraves
InfoSciPhi.info
Steve Miller
Allen County Public Library
http://goateedlibrarian.blogspot.com/
Jason Griffey
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Eliza Griffey
Future hi-fi sci-fi librarian?
jasongriffey.net
Katie Dunneback
younglibrarian.net
Blake Carver
lisnews.org
Christopher Parent
Cindi Trainor
And her two lovely and talented girls.
Thank you very much, ladies!
Images:
Circuits:
Oliver Ingrouille
http://www.flickr.com/photos/82705724@N00/119490271/
Zombie37
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zombie37/256932981/sizes/l/
quapan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hinkelstone/2435823037/
lungstruck
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lungstruck/1913177062/
Todd Cliff
http://www.flickr.com/photos/todd_cliff/394991147/
maury.mccown
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maurymccown/1122213940/
MarkyBonn
http://www.flickr.com/photos/markybon/372522719/
diluvienne
http://www.flickr.com/photos/diluvienne/276026958/
BotheredByBees
http://www.flickr.com/photos/botheredbybees/2389301870/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/botheredbybees/2389301860/
oskay
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/274464665/
geerlingguy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/58595467@N00/2287062540/
PAUL
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marxalot/378898700/
uLe@Dortmund
mnsc
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mnsc/433436548/
MathiasM
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathias_m/342535332/
endolith
http://www.flickr.com/photos/omegatron/1583210106/
Dano
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mukluk/145939373/
oskay
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/768600012/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/1364147095/
Synthesis Studio
http://www.flickr.com/photos/synthesisstudios/194274298/
social software:
b d solis (via flickr)
ear buds:
aloshbennett
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aloshbennett/1394564919/
kitty cat cowbell
Chicken Stock
http://www.flickr.com/photos/arice/750801539/
creative commons:
http://creativecommons.org/presskit
drm:
http://www.eff.org/
Thank you all so much for being a part of this project!
-Michael & David
Michael Porter
libraryman.com
David Lee King
davidleeking.com
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Now playing: David Lee King & Michael Porter - hifi scifi library
Designing PowerPoint presentations is FUN! And this is one I’ve wanted to work on for years. For almost ten years now, actually. It is the first time I’m presented the session and it a new direction, so *fingers crossed*. If nothing else, it will be unexpected, fun, entertaining and I *really* think, thought provoking. If you happen to be near Lincoln, NE tomorrow, why not swing by? A more *ahem* “refined” and adjusted version will be used at my LITA keynote session in October too.
hi-fi sci-fi library, baby! 
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Now playing: David Lee King & Michael Porter - hifi scifi library
From the last post you can see that David and I recorded a snappy little library song last week. We are really proud of the work we’ve produced and now YOU get a chance to be in the video!! It is jumpy little ditty about library futures, technology and how we will succeed as libraries.
Please listen to this short snippet and then…..shoot a brief video of you singing along! Thats all it takes! You can use a web cam, or any other camera you like and send it to the email below. It should really only take a few minutes on your end, and after we get the videos, we’ll take the best and put them in the video we are hard at work on! Of course, please also feel free to send other video that might go along with the title/theme of the song “hi-fi sci-fi library” (costumes are very welcome by the way!:)
So join in the fun and star in a video with us! This is your official invite! We are looking forward to seeing YOU in our upcoming video!
Here is a link to the very short snippet to sing along with (you can download it even if you want). The “hi-fi sci-fi library” part is what we really need to see you singing.
If you have you have a webcam, you really should be emailing your video to: michael.libraryman *At Sign**gmail.com
Please send your clips in to the above address no later than August 24th, 2008.
We are really looking forward to seeing you in the video with us!!!!!!!!!
-Michael Porter and David Lee King
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Now playing: David Lee King & Michael Porter - hi-fi sci-fi library