Librarian Entrepreneurs: Demystifying a Professional Oxymoron: Steven J. Bell
- Bell’s Presentation – steal this ..
- Made Video of Question to start off presentation
- Hand drawn pictures and text
Name a Librarian who is an Entrepreneur? .. dont’ now
Name any Entrepreneur? Gates, Trump .. dont know
Confusion with “resourceful” “innovative”
7 Charateristics of Sucessful Entrepreneur
- Opportunistic: Israel and waste water
- Creative Genius (or Team) Intermittent Windshield wiper (Pixar)
- Customer Focus (Zappos)
- Persistence (Berners-Lee)
- Connect the Dots (spotting trends, see same things differently)
- Passion (Blended Librarian Online Community)
- Risk Taking
Sessons – Library chat platform – North Carolina
Social Entrepreneurship: Creating Future Libraries (Aaron Schmidt – notebook)
“Design Thinking” IDEO “Deep Dive” (Nightline episode)
The Design Approach:
- empathic thinking (experience it live .. not by survey)
- identify problem before the solution
- brainstorming process
- prototyping process
- formative summative evaluation (let people try it)
10 Tips for Aspiring Librarian Entrepreneurs
- Listen/Observe
- Accept Hard Work
- Something is better than nothing
- Break a Few Rules (not so policy driven)
- Ask Open-Ended Questions
- Balance Risk & Evolution (use incremental change)
- Develop Sticky Ideas – (Made to Stick – Dan Heath Book) – elevator pitch, succinct, emotional
- Time For Ideas : 20% time for thought and reflection (watch for Google Waves)
- Keeping Up (Bell’s Keeping Up Blog) – trends, next big thing, disruptive technology
- Use the Zoom Out Lens (JCollins … when things get tough)
- Know your Core Values
Next Steps
- Talk to Users in their Natural Habitat
- Talk About Core Values with Stakeholders
- Talk about Design Thinking
- Talk about Risk Tolerance Level
Blog: Designing Better Libraries
In Video: Jim Neal (Columbia)
- Unbundle Heirarchy
- Create New Units
- Create Maverick Unit
Comments from Audeince
.. ways around flat heirarchy .. (ie. cross functional groups)
.. too flat makes alot of work (need some .. hmm makes me think of Monkey)
*** Bell Also Mentioned Reference desks going away ***
Conference Summary Ideas: Wake Forest Dir.
Risk Management over Risk Taking
Paying faculty to work on better library assignments
AU Libraries Professional Devleopment Blog
NJ Inst. Tech .. Doing interesting things