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Ontario Library Association Sound Bytes -

Here are a few snippets that I jotted own quickly:

Steve Uzzell's presentation Open Roads, Open Minds talked about creative problem solving.

Everyone knows what multitasking is? Multitasking is the ability to screw up more things at one time.

Not knowing where you are going makes all roles wrong.

Question everything! "Chance favours the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur

The eyes only see what the mind comprehends.

"Until one is committed there is always hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation,
there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans. The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Maintain your focus. Change is your opportunity.

Ask yourself:
- Is this the right time?
- Is this the right place?
- Are you where you should be?

No matter how far you go down the road your go turn back. -- Turkish proverb


Beth Jefferson, Founder BiblioCommons, gave a great presentation User Created Content: Is There a Role for It in the Library's OPAC?. She shared some of the results of a recent study of library customers and their perceptions
of library web sites. Amanda Etches-Johnson has posted session notes.

The paradox of choice - why more is less by Barry Schwartz, Eco, 2004.

To control the algorithms is to the control the web

30% of library users perceive that the quality of books and materials will be higher on library sites

Library users want to see the "return cart". They place a lot of value on peer reviews and think if someone else thought the book was good enough to take out, I'm interested.

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