UnconfWALib: Library 2.0 On The Loose

I really enjoyed Bar­Camp Perth 2007 and am look­ing for­ward to the next one. Well I get­ting involved in the next local uncon­fer­ence Uncon­fWALib. It would be a little hard to avoid, it is at my place of work, it is about tech­no­logy I am pas­sion­ate about and hope­fully will involve a lot of people I work with.

So why would I not want to be involved. I have volun­teered to do a present­a­tion on the mobile web, it will be more like the present­a­tion I gave at Port80 in April than Bar­Camp. Talk­ing more about how and why people use the mobile web that the tech­nical prob­lems of build­ing sites for mobile phone.

As well as provid­ing an altern­at­ive net­work that the restric­ted (ie you can not con­nect a non-approved com­puter) DCA net­work, it will not be fancy but it should work.

The blurb

Feel pas­sion­ate or curi­ous about new lib­rary approaches, want to share it with a group of like minded lib­rar­i­ans? Come to par­ti­cip­ate in dis­cus­sion and present­a­tions about new defin­i­tions of con­tent, new defin­i­tions of lib­rary col­lec­tions and new ways that we can get out of our build­ings to serve our cus­tom­ers where they are.

DATE: Fri­day 3 August

TIME: 9:30am — 5pm

WHERE: State Lib­rary of West­ern Aus­tralia, Great South­ern Room 4th Floor

AFTERWARD: 6pm — late , Annalak­shmi on the Swan, 1st Floor — West­ern Pavil­ion, Bar­racks Square (Between Jetty No. 4 & No. 5), Perth

An uncon­fer­ence works on the prin­ciple that who­ever turns up is the right per­son and whatever you dis­cuss is the right thing. People pre­pare top­ics, but ses­sions are decided on the day. Every­one is expec­ted to par­ti­cip­ate by either present­ing, join­ing in the dis­cus­sion or doing another job.

To get involved:

1. Go to the http://unconferencewalibrary.pbwiki.com/Register regis­tra­tion site.
2. Then, go to the http://unconferencewalibrary.pbwiki.com/What-is-happening-on-the-day What is hap­pen­ing on the day page of the wiki and edit it to sug­gest a topic for dis­cus­sion, volun­teer to give a present­a­tion or do a job.

The event is FREE, but you MUST REGISTER. Tea. cof­fee, bikkies and a pizza lunch are all provided. You will need to pay for din­ner. This uncon­fer­ence is sup­por­ted by the State Lib­rary of West­ern Aus­tralia, Mur­doch Uni­ver­sity Lib­rary, Curtin Uni­ver­sity Lib­rary and ALIA West, but is facil­it­ated by an inde­pend­ent group of volunteers.

For more details, visit the Uncon­fWALib wiki

tagged Uncon­fWALib Library2.0 Lib­rary 2.0

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