Morning of Library Camp East

Last night we had a chance to go to dinner with a number of people that had arrived early. It was a wonderful time. There were common themes that came up. Organization resistance to change, internal conflicts between IT and management. One of the really interesting ideas that came up from Michael Habib was making people understand the difference between the virtual library and the services it might offer and the phyiscal library. The reason I believe there is a disconnect on this issue is the abstraction of the virtual library. My experience in training is that people tend to be divided. Those that can think abstractly and those that don’t. Michael explain that when he just talk about the virtual library his audience was not really responsive but when he started introducing diagram and visualized the topic the audience then were able to understand his ideas. John Blyberg talked a little about this. He was ask about how he got approval for some of ideas. He explained this it is sometime differcult to explain an idea but he has been more successful in building his ideas and then showing people.