Think Tank Trends

with Stacey AldrichApril 21, 2009

Statewide Reference Project Update

INTRO Over the past several months, we have been creating a plan for rethinking and retooling the Statewide Reference model. Our plan has been built on past surveys and studies, and is designed to gather more data to complete our

understanding of information usage, and to create a process that will help us truly innovate how we can best provide information services to our communities.

THE PLAN

STAGE 1 STAGE 2 STAGE 3 STAGE 4 STAGE 5

DEC-MARCH 2008

DATA COLLECTION

APRIL 2008

THINK TANK PREP

FALL 2008

THINK TANK

CLA 2008

STATEWIDE INPUT

END 2008-2009

BUILDING IT

•!Think Tank Creators

group to meet with

futurist facilitators to

design a statewide

reference think tank

process.

•!This group will also

look at all of the data

gathered relating to

statewide ref., and

develop new

combinations to help

the think tank be more

informed.

•!ZOGBY polls to

understand how

Californians find

and use info.

•!Poll I via email was

completed in

January 2008

•!Poll 2 link via library

websites statewide

to be completed in

March 2008.

•!Participants from

across the state will

gather for 1 ! days to

think about information

trends and data, and

create 3 scenarios for

what statewide ref.

could become.

•!Presentations at CLA

and other venues will

be given to share data

and the 3 scenarios.

•!Input from participants

will be gathered. They

will be asked to identify

what scenarios or pieces

of scenarios they think

would be most beneficial

to all.

•!A Builders Group will

be formed to analyze the

feedback from the input

sessions, and to develop

an action plan for creating

the new statewide

reference model.

NEXT

STEP

MAKING

IT HAPPEN

5 Questions

Scouting today for clues for tomorrow

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Questions to ponder

1. How do people know things? (thank you Ann Feeney)

2. How do people find & use information?

3. What is community?

4. What is learning?

5. What is leisure and entertainment?

“The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.”

William Gibson

Trends

Local

Global

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belongs to Betty at410-9987

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JARGON WATCH

Patternicity n. “The tendency to find patterns where there are none. According to a recent study, evolution favors patternicity because it’s safer to detect false threat than to ignore a real one and become a bogeyman’s lunch meat.”

Jonathan Keats(jargon@wired.com)Wired May 2009

What are the opportunities?

Thank you!

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