Slides used at Get Out of the Frying Pan session at Evergreen Conference, 2009 by Lori Ayre and Cheryl Gould. Unfortunately, you don't get the benefit of the great activities we did during this fast-moving, fun, 45 minute session!
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Get Out Of The Frying Pan
1. Get Out of the
Frying Pan!
Evergreen Conference 2009
Athens, Georgia
Lori Bowen Ayre
lori.ayre@galecia.com
Cheryl Gould
cheryl@fullyengagedlibraries.com
10. Why it doesn’t work for us…
1. Each product limited to one
support option
2. market too small
3. built on old, nasty code
4. development is years behind
need
5. data locked up
6. inflexible – too few
customization options
11. [more]...why it doesn’t work for us
7. RFP process
doesn’t ensure
libraries make
the right choices
8. migration
process is so
horrific, there is
no recourse
once a move has
been made
9. Standards issues
14. Imagine eliminating “waste” (muda)
of staff work effort
Muda (無駄) is a Japanese term for activity that is wasteful, doesn't add value or is
unproductive.
16. Imagine being able to roll out a new
service quickly!
Sweet!
My book is
ready!
“Text-a-Circ”
17. Now is the
time to
take back
the
POWER
we have
ceded to
the
Vendors
18. Key to Firefox Success:
Community Involvement!
Mozilla
Lessons Learned
• Embrace the chaos
37% of code
contributed to a
and organize Firefox
since November ’06 has
chorus
• Listen to your
come from the community
community
• Lead your community
• Let your community
play and experiment
19. Evergreen
is a work
in
progress.
We need
to help
build it.
20. Ways to contribute to Evergreen
Beta
Identify Test Do
inefficiencies Contribute new usability Design
new code releases testing screens
Troubleshoot
Manage existing code
communities Create and test Write
of interest Raise specifications
third party
(e.g. customers, add-ins money
catalogers,
Suggest
circ staff) Develop
improvements
Optimize documentation
workflow
Co-Sponsor
Organize development Conduct user
Evergreen Increase
need
communities participation
assessments
21. Step One
Stop talking about what The Vendor
can do and start talking about what
WE can do
22. More first steps…
• Encourage every user to think critically about
how the software works – encourage them to
imagine doing things differently
• Provide a mechanism for exploring alternative
approaches (what if we tried…..)
• Capture good ideas and get them to your
contributors and your developers
• Develop new resource-sharing relationships with
other libraries (people are resources too!)