Presentation for Mozilla brownbag on information professional competencies, March 2014
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1. virtual pizza is not enough On Focus Groups, Affinities,
Data, Outreach, and Core Competencies for Information Professionals
and others in Open Source
2. who am I?
3. Source: Wikipedia
4. Photo: UNC SILS
5. Source: IMDB
6. Source: tumblr
7. what is OPW? The Outreach Program for Women (OPW) helps
women (cis and trans) and genderqueer get involved in free and open
source software. We provide a supportive community for beginning to
contribute any time throughout the year and offer focused
internship opportunities twice a year with a number of free
software organizations.
8. The one thing I think most librarians can agree on (which is
why were a good bunch to reach out to!): Information should be
free, it should be open, and it should be limitless.
9. what did I want to do for this internship? Create and run a
focus group for information professionals Fix the CBT wiki and make
it pretty Explore badging as an option for information
professionals Crowdsource badges metadata Badge information
professionals
10. what did I do? Updated the CBT wiki and made it pretty
Joined a wiki wiki working group Ran a focus group More on that
later Wrote the CBT Pathways Roadmap for this year Drove the CBT
reading group Co-blogged with Ake, Mozillarian (my blog:
http://www.jennierosehalperin.me) Webmaker makes Localized new Get
Involved survey Sorted through tons of data and emails and LOTS
more
11. the really great thing about Mozilla is..
12. I also met and worked with the best people. Larissa David
Dino Christie Pierros Michelle William Q. William R. Gemma Emily
Michelle Sean B. Janet Nukeador Madalina Kadir
13. and SO MANY MORE including
14. ALL THE MOZILLIANS EVERYWHERE!!!
15. lets talk about Focus Groups
16. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again.
Fail better. Samuel Beckett
17. ever tried 3 sessions: Exploring competencies Finding
pathways Continuing Involvement Call for participation exploded!
Twitter Blogs (tumblr: tumblrians! tumblarians! tumblrarian!)
Facebook 22 people answered and sent bios
18. Source: tumblr
19. ever failed 12 people answered poll for meeting time
Session 1: 7 participants Session 2: 3 participants Session 3: 2
participants Number of return participants: 2 Number of
participants who participated in all three sessions: 0
20. Source: tumblr
21. what went wrong? 3 sessions is a lot of sessions Lack of
clear benefit and reward (Virtual pizza is not enough!) Qualitative
interviews are not efficient
22. Source: Hey Girl Librarian
23. no matter Information professionals are good at:
Spreadsheets! Metadata! Community building! Encouraging critical
literacies! Working within their means (using only sources that are
free and available or working within a particular budget. Figure
out a way to make it work!)
24. Helpfulness! Search, (Ontologies, Vocabularies, Thesaurus
Building)! Databases! Creating online search strategies!
Maintaining and developing free public spaces, online and offline!
Creating intranets and organizing internal information! Building
Social Networks! Honest and Open communication! Simplying the
complicated!
25. how do we harness all these amazing skills?
26. Source: Queens Library
27. try again Lessons learned: We love IRL interaction We have
to get out of the vendor training model Collaboration with existing
structures Techy librarians as defacto experts Recognition is key
Time (is not) on our side Demystifying contribution Partnerships,
partnerships!
28. When you assume, you make an ass out of u and me -Felix
Unger, the Odd Couple
29. fail better Data and surveys: Stewards survey Get Involved
Survey Creative ways to get feedback! After event polling Silent
etherpadding One-on-one interviews Mozillarians, all of us!
30. Source: Ake Nygren, Mozillarian
31. so now what? Partnering with libraries and schools Badges
for information professionals Software Carpentry Infiltrating MLSs
Webmaker Maker parties Mentorship Library Camps! no need to
reinvent remix!
32. "I thought being a librarian was going to be about reading
stories, readers advisory, and helping people. Instead its hearing
depressing stories from patrons, dealing with government
bureaucracy, and a pointless MLIS degree. Im still in school and I
already want to give up but Ive spent too much money to just back
out now I feel trapped. -Librarian Shaming tumblr
33. Mozilla and open source can help reverse the
professional/paraprofessional divide.
34. Source: Librarian-Shaming tumblr
35. learning from experience We can use this as a test group
Collecting qualitative research from affinity groups is not easy
Organic data collection Long term storage Creating affinity groups
within the larger community Nurturing new volunteers and providing
mentorship opportunities
36. together we can reach our organizational goal of 10x this
year!