Stephen Abram speaking - Richard Akerman

"we're not being strong enough" (about explaining what we do) - Richard Akerman

"what words should we be using" - Richard Akerman

newspaper boxes... is news dead? (no) - Richard Akerman

"are you being heard?" - Richard Akerman

"we've got to get librarians at the table, we've got to be tougher about this stuff" - Richard Akerman

talking about the fact that you can change search engine rankings - SEO can alter where things rank, depending on economic interests - Richard Akerman

librarians have to ensure that information provision in the digital world isn't controlled by special interests - Richard Akerman

talking about opportunity of the wireless bandwidth that will be freed up by the analog to digital television transition - Richard Akerman

talking about Obama's dominance of social networking - where is your library? - Richard Akerman

"people tell me libraries are dead... I say that's nice, moron" - Richard Akerman

ed comment: saying lots of nice things about how librarians know stuff - and library ideas helped in the creation of Google and Yahoo - um yeah that's nice, but GOOGLE and YAHOO did it, not librarians - Richard Akerman

"we've got to get stronger about defending what really matters" - Richard Akerman

"acting like a warehouse and delivering things is not what we're about" - Richard Akerman

"an embedded librarian team" - Richard Akerman

"they don't hate us, they're indifferent" - Richard Akerman

"we're really about informing people" - Richard Akerman

:) I love this line: "people tell me libraries are dead... I say that's nice, moron" - Christina Pikas

"libraries will not go away--they will be different" - don't let libraries get devolved into warehouses - Richard Akerman

ed comment: a lot of emphasis on the fact that Google has ads and can re-rank search results - Richard Akerman

"Library Responses: public good, national advantage" - Richard Akerman

"Library Responses: visual literacy and faceted search" - librarians are (generally) textual not visual - but some of their patrons are - Richard Akerman

have to think about how your PATRONS receive and use information, not how you use the information as librarians - Richard Akerman

talking about getting your library into the web environment of users - Richard Akerman

"watercooler relationships with scientists, so that you're in their social network" - Richard Akerman

"watch what people are doing, and then align with that" - Richard Akerman

ed comment: slagging OPAC as inventory management access - sweet - Richard Akerman

"culture of victimization in our profession is just way too huge... victim is a choice" - Richard Akerman

ed comment: talking about opac-y improvement things (not unexpected, given sirsi dynix background) - Richard Akerman

(paraphrase) "why aren't all the world's leading science catalogues viewable in a unified way?" - Richard Akerman

"Innovation: Is your org aligned with change needs?" (pilots, trials etc.) - Richard Akerman

"What are the barriers to change?" - Richard Akerman

"What does your org innovation scan get you?" , "How do you choose and schedule?" , "How innovative are your influencing strategies?" - Richard Akerman

(paraphrase) "sometimes we don't need to study stuff to death... death is not the goal" - Richard Akerman

SLA Innovation Lab - Richard Akerman

how to better communicate the role and value of the library - ed comment: talking about neurolinguistic programming to install positive memes in decision-maker's heads - Richard Akerman

presentation of SLA study results - Richard Akerman

ed comment: lots of positive opportunities to integrate into research teams - Richard Akerman

"information + librarians = intelligence" - Richard Akerman

"knowledge sharing" and "innovative technology" highly rated descriptions - don't talk about the tools - Richard Akerman

(paraphrase) "what is the space your scientists can see themselves in, and can you get them to imagine you in that space with them" - Richard Akerman

SLA alignment project videos on YouTube - Richard Akerman

do: promote, talk about knowledge, evolution, appeal to execs - Richard Akerman

talking about differences between private and public sector approaches and definitions - Richard Akerman

I asked a Q: Can you talk more about innovation approaches you have seen succeed in libraries. - Richard Akerman

(paraphrase) A: SirsiDynix has 20% time (like Google). Create a boundary, but allow iterative experimentation (accepting failure) within that boundary. - Richard Akerman

ed comment: he's talking about evolutionary vs. revolutionary but I don't quite follow him. Now he's making a good point about using the tools that your users do - being in their environment. - Richard Akerman

My colleague Stephen Anthony has blogged his notes - link at https://friendfeed.com/e... - Richard Akerman