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		<title>By: blogwithoutalibrary.net &#187; Carnival of the Infosciences #35</title>
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		<dc:creator>blogwithoutalibrary.net &#187; Carnival of the Infosciences #35</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 13:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Meredith Farkas submits her thought-provoking post &#8220;On skill sharing&#8221; about the importance of sharing our skills, whatever those skills may be. She writes, &#8220;I know tech skills are in high demand, but they aren’t the only things we’re often lacking at smaller libraries. We could benefit from the expertise of a lot of non-techie librarians.&#8221; [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Meredith Farkas submits her thought-provoking post &#8220;On skill sharing&#8221; about the importance of sharing our skills, whatever those skills may be. She writes, &#8220;I know tech skills are in high demand, but they aren’t the only things we’re often lacking at smaller libraries. We could benefit from the expertise of a lot of non-techie librarians.&#8221; [...]</p>
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		<title>By: links for 2006-04-28 at ebyblog</title>
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		<dc:creator>links for 2006-04-28 at ebyblog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Information Wants To Be Free » Blog Archive » On skill sharing (tags: libraries library2.0 programming) [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Alison</title>
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		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That is a great idea! What a fantastic way to help each other fill in the blanks. It&#039;s too bad some of the librarians aren&#039;t as adventurous, but I think it&#039;s a good reminder to those of us who immediately reach for a web-based solution. 

So how would we have done this sort of thing before wikis? What about a plain old directory? This is the kind of thing that would take a person to spearhead it, but it might be worth a shot. Develop a survey that assess the needs and wants, get them out to the participating libraries, have them mailed or faxed or emailed back to one central person, and that person could then assimilate that info into a directory that could be sent back out to all the participants in hard copy or whatever electronic format people agree on (excel, pdf, word, whatever). You can&#039;t keep it up to date as quickly &amp; effortlessly, and it takes more time from one person, but it&#039;s better than a ton of in-person meetings to hash it all out! You&#039;d maybe need just one to get it going, and perhaps you could arrange for that meeting to happen at a time when almost everyone would be together anyway, like a state library assn. conference.</description>
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<p>So how would we have done this sort of thing before wikis? What about a plain old directory? This is the kind of thing that would take a person to spearhead it, but it might be worth a shot. Develop a survey that assess the needs and wants, get them out to the participating libraries, have them mailed or faxed or emailed back to one central person, and that person could then assimilate that info into a directory that could be sent back out to all the participants in hard copy or whatever electronic format people agree on (excel, pdf, word, whatever). You can&#8217;t keep it up to date as quickly &amp; effortlessly, and it takes more time from one person, but it&#8217;s better than a ton of in-person meetings to hash it all out! You&#8217;d maybe need just one to get it going, and perhaps you could arrange for that meeting to happen at a time when almost everyone would be together anyway, like a state library assn. conference.</p>
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		<title>By: Stephen Francoeur</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stephen Francoeur</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How about a site that works like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fsa.usda.gov/haynet/default.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hay Net&lt;/a&gt;, which info architect/web design folks always talk about for the clarity of its navigation. Instead of choosing between &quot;Need Hay&quot; or &quot;Want Hay,&quot; you could choose &quot;Need Archivist Expertise&quot; or &quot;Have Archivist Expertise,&quot; and &quot;Need Coding Skills&quot; and &quot;Have Coding Skills.&quot; Or maybe not. Maybe it only works when you&#039;re world just involves hay. ;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How about a site that works like <a href="http://www.fsa.usda.gov/haynet/default.asp" rel="nofollow">Hay Net</a>, which info architect/web design folks always talk about for the clarity of its navigation. Instead of choosing between &#8220;Need Hay&#8221; or &#8220;Want Hay,&#8221; you could choose &#8220;Need Archivist Expertise&#8221; or &#8220;Have Archivist Expertise,&#8221; and &#8220;Need Coding Skills&#8221; and &#8220;Have Coding Skills.&#8221; Or maybe not. Maybe it only works when you&#8217;re world just involves hay. <img src='http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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