Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 1 - Information Design for the New Web
Ellyssa Kroski, Reference Librarian, Columbia University
She blogs at infotangle
Looked at msn’s website circa 2000 - your eye doesn’t really center on anything
About.com - same type of thing
Google - early example of simple design - now the gold standard of web search
kodak from 2004 - it’s a photo sharing site, but it’s not apparent to the [...]
Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 1 - Privacy, Security, Social Networking & Libraries: Me, MySpace, and Eye
Alane Wilson, OCLC
The network is community.
Harris Interactive conducted the research for them on this project…
Played a video made from ALA Midwinter’s OCLC preconference meeting
Data snippets:
How many years have you been using the internet? Librarians far exceed everyone else’s use. We started with things like gopher, Mosaic, etc - most users haven’t
The culture of paper…
Librarians have [...]
Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 1 - Webmaster Cool Tools
Darlene Fichter, Frank Cervone, Jeff Wisniewski
Another extremely packed room - I’m sitting on the floor with about 20 other people!
Jeff Wisniewski:
Yahoo pipes - it’s a feed aggregator. You can apply logic to the feeds (ie., filter the feed in various ways), it’s graphical (no coding involved).
- He uses it to pull in feeds for faculty [...]
Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 1 - Building Collaboration, Communication and Community Online
Meredith Farkas
I’m in the overflow room - coolness.
defined social software (missed it)
Easy content creation and sharing
Online collaboration - she’s used Googled documents and wikis to work with colleagues - collaborate in a single shared space
conversations: distributed - used blogpulse as an example - it shows commenting
Conversations: Real TIme - IM
Capitalizing on the Wisdom of Crowds [...]
Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 1 - Web 2.0 and what it means to libraries
Lee Rainie, Pew Internet & American Life Project
Tom Hogan opened…
2393 people participating in CIL this year (most ever)
Lee said “I adore librarians.”
Showed an Ask a Ninja video on “What is podcasting?”
Starting Point: September 2005, John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly
web as platform
harnessing collective intelligence
data is the next Intel Inside: data on the web is much more [...]
Law Professor Bans Laptops in Class
From this article… a professor has banned the use of laptops in her class. The article says “Professor June Entman says her main concern is that
students are so busy keyboarding they can’t think and analyze what
she’s telling them.”
Wow. Just wow. I have a question… those students are TAKING NOTES. But using a laptop to do [...]
CIL2006 - Slides from My Presentation on Experience Planning
Here’s a link to my slides from my presentation at the Computers in Libraries conference. I presented a session titled “The Basics of Web-Based Experience Planning.” Other people have blogged about it here, here, and here.
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CIL2006, Laptops and Notetaking
One final video from the Computers in Libraries 2006 conference. This one is from Paul Miller (the Talis guy) speaking about Web 2.0 and library catalogs.
The video is short - when watching, take a peek at all the laptops! I counted seven of them, and that was just in my tiny little section of the [...]
CIL2006 - Final Thoughts
This conference, to me, was all about:
Collaboration. Libraries need to be collaborating. With our library staff, with our patrons, and with other libraries.
Keeping current with technology. We just “have to do it.” Our patrons expect nothing less, and they get it - at Amazon, at Starbucks, even at McDonalds… we should be willing and able [...]
CIL2006, DAY 3: Project Croquet
Marshall Breeding introduced Project Croquet - he talked about it some, and we watched snippets of a video done by the creators of Croquet.
Project Croquet is a multi-user 3D-ish, game-like collaboration space accessed via a computer. It looks a little like Second Life or Sims Online - but that’s where the similarities begin and end. [...]
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