My colleague Zola Maddison mentioned to me today that she thought we ought to publish the patron stories behind or alongside the library staff stories we tell at WebJunction.
So, what if when we talked about what Rachel does for her library in the Mission Branch of San Francisco Public, we could also hear the voices of some of her patrons talking about how her library services have changed and enriched their lives?
That is why we do this stuff, afterall.
Zola’s comments came after a whirl-wind hour of Knowledge Cafe-ing, hosted by Betha and Emily, based on their time at SLA this year. At the end of that session we were talking about actions and outcomes from the Cafe. ‘Just let it change you,’ I said, ‘let it influence our work’. But what I think I may have meant was more simple than that, even: ‘just let it remind you’.
I wanted to see all the great comments from your cafe shown in the picture, but when I click it it tells me I don’t have permission to view it on flickr. Is this really top secret stuff or can we see what you wrote? Thanks!
Hi Stephanie,
I’m both saying “D’oh!” and laughing a teensy bit too. But then I feel bad for laughing since it caused you some frustration! As the picture taker, here’s my version of the story the story: We had a WJ Staff Meeting where we did some very, very open, off the cuff, “no taboo topics” brainstomring in groups. We rotated around the room and wrote down “stuff”. I took a picture of some of the giant sticky notes that had our scribbles on them because it was a fun event and I thought they looked pretty. Then I uploaded them to flcikr so only logged in WJ staff could see the pic. Then Chrystie used the shot in this blog post (which I actually think is probably a pretty cool thing:).
Gosh, that was a long explaination. I don’t know if we’ll just change the pic or open it up for all to see. Still, since I didn’t ask the staff or the event organizers if it was ok to share images of the “no taboo discussion points” doodle sheets, as of this minute, the image is gonna stay small (and mostly unreadable). Its not like there is anything bad on the sheets in the pic, you know, I’m just probably being overly sensitive in my attention to privacy. Hey, I’m a librarian! lol!
oh dear. let me check with our colleagues and see if anyone is too shy to let their no-taboos doodles out into the world. so sorry for the inconvenience.
there. all better.