Keeping Up with Big Daddy: Meeting 2.0 User Expectations on a 1.0 Budget

This presentation features 2.0 is actually $imple, Jing, Animoto, Poll Daddy, Type Pad, World, KLOW, and Zamza

The Kansas story: a sea of Koha green on the plains

Three regional systems document each massive collaboration project to provide small and rural libraries with a consortia catalog. The systems Central Kansas Library System (CKLS), Northeast Kansas Library System (NEKLS) and Southeast Kansas Library System (SEKLS) narrate their system experience with creating a consortia catalog for libraries in their designated region. Their experience includes the history, the challenges and achievements and the future plans of each of the three Koha integrated library systems. All three systems currently still use this open-source software

Layers of advocacy: How librarians everywhere can make a difference and lessons for LIS education

Lobbying and advocacy are critical to the success of libraries, because they play a key role in communicating to decision-makers and communities why libraries are essential resources in an information-driven society. However, despite the importance of lobbying and advocacy to the profession, it is not always clear how library schools should teach about this aspect of librarianship. Taking an international, comparative approach, this panel discusses the complexities associated with lobbying and advocacy, as well as some challenges faced by LIS educators when teaching about the topic. To make teaching about lobbying and advocacy in LIS easier, six panelists with experience in a range of political, social, and cultural contexts will talk about issues such as: levels of government where lobbying takes place; varying definitions of advocacy, especially across countries with different traditions of librarianship; and the time frame in which lobbying and advocacy efforts take place. Panelist presentations will emphasize “lessons learned” that can be used to teach LIS students how to cultivate support for libraries. Using panelist presentations as a starting point, this panel will include a follow-up discussion about teaching advocacy in LIS. A primary goal of this panel is to identify powerful content for LIS curricula and instructional approaches that can support more effective advocacy. We will conclude by opening the door to audience participation with the purpose of integrating new ideas into the discussion.This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant No. 182222

On becoming a knowledge school

This report chronicles the beginning effort to examine the prospect of becoming a Knowledge School. Curran and Braum, with the support and guidance of SLIS (School of Library and Information Science) Director David Lankes, planned and managed an event that brought together faculty, students, and representatives from academic, public, and state libraries. The purpose was to examine possibilities for creating a program that would equip students to enter the work force with information skills that included helping organizations use information to create change, seize opportunities, and more fully serve their communities, constituents, and clients. Representing their subject and service fields, faculty addressed the program’s current strengths and suggested expansion of boundaries. They considered questions to answer and opportunities and initiatives to explore