Friday 21st September

Article – Cycling for Libraries – A TTW Guest Post by Mace Ojala

Author – Dr. Michael Stephens

Posted - September 19th, 2012

Located -  http://tametheweb.com/

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Mace Ojala commented that all conferences and professional development are all conducted the same way. We are placed in a room, a person stands in front and then talks and show slides for the next two hours. You have a short break and then move onto the next person. We have always done it this way.

Mace commented that all the actual networking is done in the break. Where people talk to other people. Get thoughts, opinions and ideas.

So for the next conference, instead of just turning up, Mace organised Cycling for libraries. Roughly 100 librarians got together and rode 650 km in 2011. They rode from Copenhagen to Berlin to be present for 100^th Deutcher Bibliothekartage. It worked so well that for the 2012 IFLA WLIC conference in Helsinki they planned to do the same thing.

We need to have new and different ways to learn, share and work together. Coming up with innovated ways to share this knowledge helps to renew interest and get people thinking.