{"id":79,"date":"2007-02-02T15:31:55","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T20:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/2007\/02\/02\/taiga-2-forum-moves-into-open-space\/"},"modified":"2007-04-16T06:19:40","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T11:19:40","slug":"taiga-2-forum-moves-into-open-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/2007\/02\/02\/taiga-2-forum-moves-into-open-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiga 2 Forum moves into Open Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant University Librarians and Assistant Directors met for the second annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taigaforum.org\">Taiga Forum<\/a> a day before ALA Midwinter, Seattle, to discuss the changing dynamics of academic libraries.<\/p>\n<p>In a change from last year, the participants utilized the Open Spaces structure to stage an unconference, where the conversation topics were chosen by the participants.<\/p>\n<p>Topics included Search, Radical Collaboration, and Google: Friend or Foe, among others. The guiding principles were,  &#8220;Whoever comes is the right person, whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened, whenever it starts is the right time, and when it&#8217;s over, it&#8217;s over.&#8221; The Endangered Species conference met in an adjoining conference room.<\/p>\n<p>Meg Bellinger, Yale University Associate  University Librarian, said, &#8220;We came away with the sense that we don&#8217;t have all of the answers but we all share the same problems. We must spend time moving beyond the current issues towards solutions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was sponsored by Innovative Interfaces, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/2007\/02\/02\/taiga-2-forum-moves-into-open-space\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Taiga 2 Forum moves into Open Space\"><p>Assistant University Librarians and Assistant Directors met for the second annual Taiga Forum a day before ALA Midwinter, Seattle, to discuss the changing dynamics of academic libraries. In a change from last year, the participants utilized the Open Spaces structure to stage an unconference, where the conversation topics were chosen by the participants. Topics included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1717,1720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-conference","category-vendors","h-entry","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Tn4G-1h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}