Library Teams 2.0

This keynote presentation was delivered at the School Library Assoc of Victoria conference recently.  It is a reflection on a 4 year journey of building and working as a library team involved in transition as we move to cloud based library management, digital resourcing and an increased need for high level personal skills.  It's a journey that countinues and has been made smoother by reference to policy, planning and discussion.  Social media is an increasingly important aspect of our learning and emerging role.

An early paper written on the topic Library Team 2.0 provides some background, however, we continue to evolve and trial new approaches.

Library Teams 2.0 from Camilla Elliott

Librii - new model of library for developing countries

Librii is an exciting new concept in libraries that has been successfully funded as a Kickstarter project raising $52,350, just above their $50,000 goal, with 650 backers.  Their plan is to develop a network of low-cost yet revenue-generating, digitally powered libraries deployed along the fibre optic infrastructure in the developing world.  It will be run by library and information professionals and provide access to people isolated from resources that could aid their independence.   

Librii's intention is to provide individuals and comunities with access to digital and physical tools to 'tools to solve their own educational, informational, and economic challenges'.  The purpose of being revenue-generating, they say, is to make them independent from government organisations and the like.  It makes sense.

The project was incubated with seed funding from the World Bank Institute and was awarded the Best Innovation Leveraging Technology from the Dell Social Innovation Challenge.  It's a project worth watching and provides inspiration to me personally, as we encourage our own library communities to look differently at the futures available to them. #Librii