Sunday, February 8, 2009

Table 3 comment cards

  • Cluster 4 work group communication
  • More awareness of bigger context
  • Shorter, succint communication in sync for that day
  • We don’t know what we do
  • Too many meetings but not enough communication. Freedom to talk?
  • Moderately sized interest clusters
  • Do we really work together? It seems like there are many reports about production what are the reports about other projects/processes?
  • Expertise Diffusion: among ourselves, to other librarians and IT folks, to the rest of the institution, how do we get attention? Skills to the masses!
  • Meetings, we have too many. Unproductive.
  • Communication: among ourselves, with other lib units, with out wasting time, with lib administration, with the rest of the university
  • Communications between units. Collaboration across boundaries
  • Isolation: feeling unsupported, mission unclear, performance unclear, morale-busting
  • Cluster:6 Organizational Issues. Rank: 2
  • Administration management of resources
  • Reactive Vs. Proactive: is our job to do what comes down to us from our fearless leaders? Or are we supposed to set the agenda? Lead?
  • I'd like to see less top=down direction and more TRUST in the intelligence, skills and ideas coming up from the grass roots
  • Making our case to those who hold the purse strings
  • Other campus stakeholders territoriality exclusion
  • What does it take to obtain trust?
  • No direction. Authority to select direction. NO more vetoes
  • Cluster: 3 Experimentation and innovation rank:3
  • I like seeing interesting and informative presentations at conferences. I like it more when the speaker is someone with whom I work.
  • Can we generate ideas? Then "hire" a tech person to make them viable?
  • Experimentation: permission? Time? Materials? Priorities?
  • What happened to our agility?
  • INNOVATION
  • Embracing risk
  • Cluster: 1 Workspace and Software rank: 5
  • In the future...a CLEAR, uncluttered workspace that feels good to get to
  • Can we please stop paying top-dollar for lousy crap? This is probably bigger in scope than this discussion and this room.
  • Our high end equipment=2 better light cameras. Can we scan more difficult, complex, beautiful material.
  • Physical Space: what is happening to small campus libraries? (Purdue), can we put a space bid in if some close?, much time wasted in travel
  • Efficiency: no drudge work for people (give it to the computers) Automation of common processes
  • Cluster:5 assessment and usability Rank:6
  • Improve usability
  • Assessment Ranking User focus HCL info arch
  • Since we are state university, can we connect to needs of smaller groups in state? Do they need to be university-affiliated before we help?
  • How do we find most interesting most exploratory material to scan?
  • Cluster:2 Services rank:4
  • Libraries and the research process: scholarly communications, data curation, collection, embedding libraries, us or IT?
  • Archive analog and digital
  • Build community spaces around the (digital) collections
  • Reformat to provide remote access to content to end user. (analog books, serials, microfilm, glass negatives, etc.)
  • Address the needs of future users (aka preservation)
  • Continue work in traditional analog preservation work to assure access to printed materials.
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