Friday, October 12, 2012

Case Study No. 0583: Andrew Finegan

Libraries in 2010
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My entry for the Library and Information Week competition 2007 at http://librariesinteract.info
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["Back to the Future of public libraries ... by Andrew Finegan" appears on screen, as the theme from the BTTF film plays]
ANDREW FINEGAN: It's Library and Information Week in 2007!
["Public libraries in 2010?" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: And it's been an exciting time for libraries.
["Current emerging technology" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: Lots of cool information trends emerging ...
["Podcasting" appears on screen, with a picture of an iPad]
ANDREW FINEGAN: We've got podcasting ...
["Blogosphere" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: Everybody's blogging these days, and the online blog community's booming!
["Social networking" appears on screen, with a picture of the MySpace logo]
ANDREW FINEGAN: Social networking sites are going off everywhere ...
["Second Life" appears on screen, with a picture of a fox avatar from Second Life]
ANDREW FINEGAN: And, we've got virtual worlds now, like Second Life ...
["What does the future hold?" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: So, what does the future hold for libraries? What will libraries be like in 2010?
["Let's find out!" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: Well, let's find out!
["You need a deLorean" appears on screen, with a picture of the car from the "Back to the Future" films]
ANDREW FINEGAN: All you need is a DeLorean ...
["A flux capacitor" appears on screen, with a picture of the prop from the movie]
ANDREW FINEGAN: A flux capacitor ...
["Weapons grade plutonium" appears on screen, with a picture of the hazard symbol for radioactivity]
ANDREW FINEGAN: And some weapons-grade plutonium! Put them all together, jump in your car, and drive up to eighty eight miles per hour ...
["Hit 88 miles per hour! (approx. 140 kph" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: Or a hundred and forty K per hour if you're not driving an American car. And ... here we go!
["The year 2010 - Welcome to the future of public libraries!" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: And welcome to the year 2010! Cool, let's go check out our library, let's see what we've got here ...
["Books" appears on screen, as the music changes to the muzak version of "The Girl from Ipanema"]
ANDREW FINEGAN: Okay, we've got some ... books. Great.
["DVDs" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: We've got DVDs ...
["CDs" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: Okay, some CDs. Um ... Let's go check out the computers. Computers must be cool these days!
["Crappy internet access with oppressive and intelligence-insulting filters" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: [pause] They've got really crappy internet ... And filters. Filters everywhere. Great.
["Huh? What's going on?!?!" appears on screen, with a cartoon of a stereotypical female librarian (glasses, hair in a bun, etc.)]
ANDREW FINEGAN: What's going on? No, this is wrong! This isn't, this isn't how it's supposed to be! I want some answers ... Let's see what the librarian has to say. I wanna speak to the librarian!
["Shh!" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: What? She's not here? Okay ...
["You want answers? Try new Google Everything(TM) instead." appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: What, try Google?
["Unfortunately, though, our computers aren't good enough to operate it. But there's a good internet cafe down the road ... " appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: But not on your computers ... They're not good enough? Right.
["Where am I now?" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: What's going on? What am I up to? Surely, I would've made a difference by now. I'm gonna look myself up on the internet ...
[the sounds of typing on the keyboard can be heard, then "Quit libraries to become a folk singer" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: I'm dead. I became a folk singer and then ...
["Committed hara-kiri and died at the age of 30" appears on screen, with a picture of a traditional Japanese warrior and a tombstone]
ANDREW FINEGAN: Committed ritual suicide at the age of thirty.
["How can I fix this?" appears on screen, as the music changes to the theme song for the "Dr. Who" television show]
ANDREW FINEGAN: Okay, I know what we have to do!
["Find a time lord" appears on screen, with a picture of the Tenth Doctor standing next to the TARDIS]
ANDREW FINEGAN: We have to go find a Time Lord! Let's go find a Time Lord, we'll go and ... Ah, there's one over there. Can we borrow your TARDIS, please?
["Ask for his help" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: No? Look, what's that over there?
["Steal his TARDIS" appears on screen, as the picture of the TARDIS disappears from the screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: Okay, steal the TARDIS and go back to 2005 ...
["Operation Make Libraries Cool!" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: Start Operation Make Libraries Cool!
["Kidnap Hugh Jackman" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: So firstly, we find Hugh Jackman and then we kidnap him ... And then we put him on an operating table and we perform a brain transplant.
["Brain transplant" appears on screen, with an illustration of a human brain]
ANDREW FINEGAN: So that my brain is inside Hugh Jackman's head ...
["Sell his brain on eBay" appears on screen, with a picture of the eBay logo]
ANDREW FINEGAN: And we take Hugh Jackman's brain, and we sell it on eBay! Uh, to pay for the operation ...
["Start Campaigning" appears on screen, with a picture of Hugh Jackman]
ANDREW FINEGAN: Then, as Hugh Jackman, I will go out and start campaigning ...
["Hugh Jackman supports continuing professional development for library staff" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: We're taking over the world, and campaign for continuing professional development for library staff.
["Adopting emerging technologies in public libraries" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: As well as getting libraries to adopt emerging technology, and use them in our public libraries.
["Reading is still cool" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: And still spread the message that books are still cool, 'cause books are still cool ...
["Start a totalitarian regime" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: And then we start a totalitarian regime!
["Library staff must all meet prescribed standards of information literacy, or else ... " appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: Any library staff who don't meet our standards of information literacy are first ...
["Public humiliation" appears on screen, with a picture of a woman in the stockades]
ANDREW FINEGAN: Publicly humiliated. And then, if they still don't learn anything ...
["Public execution" appears on screen, with a picture of an execution by firing squad]
ANDREW FINEGAN: They're executed ... Get rid of all the crap librarians that are out there!
["Go back to 2010" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: Then, once that's all done, we go back to 2010! Um, we need a new time machine, though. The TARDIS stopped working, so ...
["Find Guy Pearce" appears on screen, with a picture from the 2002 film "The Time Machine"]
ANDREW FINEGAN: Find Guy Pearce ...
["Steal his time machine" appears on screen, as the time machine in the picture disappears]
ANDREW FINEGAN: And we steal his time machine!
["How did it go?" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: And let's see, how did it go? So, back to 2010, how did we do?
["Librarians are elevated to the apex of the social hierarchy and reign supreme" appears on screen, as the music changes to Daft Punk's "Technologic"]
ANDREW FINEGAN: Yes, librarians rock!
["Libraries are awesome" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: Libraries are cool ...
["To quote George W. Bush, Mission accomplished" appears on screen, with a picture of Conan the Librarian from the movie "UHF"]
ANDREW FINEGAN: Mission accomplished!
["A job well done!" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: So, job well done!
["Retire, and hope that ... " appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: Now it's time to retire, and keep your fingers crossed that ...
["The Doctor doesn't come and find you" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: The Doctor doesn't come and find you, for stealing his TARDIS and meddling with the timeline.
["The Fabric of space-time holds" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: Or that you haven't caused a paradox that unravels the very fabric of the space-time continuum and destroys the universe.
["You don't wake up and find that it was all a dream." appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: And also hope that you don't wake up and find that the whole thing was just a dream ...
["The End!" appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: The end!
["But seriously ... " appears on screen]
ANDREW FINEGAN: But seriously ... As librarians, we need to be leaders of the information community. In this day and age, it's absolutely imperative that we are on top of emerging technology and information trends. If your Average Joe that walks into the library is using it, then we should be providing it! If a normal sixteen-year-old kid can do it, then we should know how to do it too! These are the information needs of the future, and now is the time to start bringing these emerging technologies into our libraries. So ask yourself, what do you want your library to be like in 2010? And then ask yourself, what're you doing to set your library in that direction? And you don't need to be a library manager to affect change! All you need to do is your job! Keep yourself up to date on information trends, learn something new every week, find useful things to do, and share your knowledge with everybody! If every library professional took fifteen minutes a day to learn something new, and share it, then the future of our libraries will look a helluva lot better. Thank you.

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From librariesinteract.info:

And the winner is...

Posted May 24th 2007 @ 7:01 pm by Peta Hopkins

Congratulations to Andrew Finegan for his very amusing and creative entry in the LINT Library & Information Week promotion. It was great to see the ideas, drawings and video, and I hope they provoked some discussion and thinking at your library.

Well done to Sue and Ivan also. Sue's entry attracted some attention in the comments and may be reprinted elsewhere.

You can view all the entries including those written by the Thali using this link.

Andrew's copy of Meredith Farkas Social Software in Libraries will be on its way shortly.

Now if we can just find the user-sensitive information bar, all of us Hughs can celebrate :-). If you have no idea what I'm talking about take a good look at Ivan and Andrew's entries again.

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From stephenslighthouse.com:

Andrew Finegan (Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia) has a neat video on the subject of the future of the public library. It's called Libraries in 2010 – What Happened?

Like all good humour, it is based on some truth.

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From connectinglibrarian.com:

Andrew Finegan, the Librarian Idol, produced his "Libraries in 2010? video for a Libraries Interact competition for Australian Library Week. It won! You can check out the other entries at Libraries Interact.

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