From the category archives:
I recently spoke at the Mississippi Library Association’s annual conference, held in Vicksburg this year. I had a blast! My first job out of library school was in Mississippi, so I was able to hang with old friends - very nice indeed.
And here’s a link to the 2.0/emerging trends presentation I gave.
Enjoy!
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Casey Bisson (met him for the first time - nice guy!)
“Libraries are much larger than our books and our OPACs”
Catalog challenges:
We use Linux daily - it’s the dominant platform of most social web apps
IBM saves over $900,000,000 annually because of LInux
Scriblio.net (used to be his WPOPAC) - very cool. He’s making this easily available to other libraries!
“sites that allow comments value their users”
“Your website is not a marketing tool - it’s a service point.”
Then Casey did a successful live install of Scriblio! Very cool. It’s basically Wordpress with some customized widgets and plug-ins (and your catalog records) - took him 11 1/2 minutes, it seemed easy to do.
It’s going to work with Horizon soon. Book jackets come from Amazon.
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Meredith Farkas:
issue - lots of people don’t have access to continuing education programs
hands-on learning is important
online courses can be run cheaply
talked about Five Weeks to a Social Library:
had 40 participants, all kinds of libraries
tools used:
drupal - it allows multiple blogs, all in the same place, and static content, too
blip.tv
opal
lessons:
playing with technology is essential to learning technology
reflective learning makes ideas stick
learning from peers can be more important than learning from a sage on the stage
online learning can be developed on the cheap
Helene Blowers:
Lego Building: Learning through Play
learning 2.0 has been duplicated over 200 times internationally - coolness.
what can you do to continually keep up with changes?
need to think of ourselves as players
(note to self - still print out presentation… Helene had some tech problems)
becomes a knowledge player
become a guide - someone who exhibits and explains points of interest
become a discovery guide:
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Cranky? Boomers & Older Adults are Greying the Internet!, Allen Kleiman
seniornet, thirdage, eons - examples of senior-focused social networking cites
these sites are doing something, but aren’t doing a very good job of it.
said a 46 year old isn’t a baby boomer… ??? (picky sideline thing)
most of these sites are focused on seniors or boomers with money
some sites resemble facebook with wrinkles
search engine - cranky.com - developed by eons
Boomers! TV - they do a series of online / tv shows on aging issues…
senior bloggers - benefits:
- helps older adults keep their minds share
great way to meet people
easy to share life experiences, wisdom, and information through blogs
might give the blog author a bit of fame
17% of seniors have read someone else’s blog (3% have created a blog)
they are having the teens teach the older adults how to play the Wii
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Integrating Libraries & Communities Online, Glenn Peterson, Marilyn Turner
Marilyn Turner
bookspace.org - they made this. It’s cool. It brings together book lists, author lists, librarian tips, etc… many genre guides
it’s only focused on books - so it still has the traditional librarian bias to content
they include a librarian’s blog on each genre page
assign 2 people per genre pages
not volunteer activities - instead, they say it’s part of your job. Part of performance expectation! Awesome! Web Services Manager works with other managers to make sure web content is part of review process
Glenn Peterson:
Customer Contributed Content
user comments on books and other titles
harry potter and the deathly hallows - 234 comments! wow. they had 60 comments while the book was still on order - talking about how the stroy line would go. neat.
social features:
user comments
blogs
book lists
browse a list of recent comments
user profiles
name, about me, reading interests - that’s neat. theya’re looking at librarything’s profile for ideas
they have a wall-of-books - images of book jackets to see what books each user has checked out…
wanting to do: users wo are reading X are reading Y
wanting to create a friend’s list, a facebook-like wall
challenges - control issues - what can people leave on their profile
John Blyberg:
The Social Catalog
why bring social tools to the catalog?
three social catalogs:
pseudo-social - authority presented as collaborative (ie., Innovative’s ncore)
Syndicated social - third party data (librarything)
individually social - user-direct (hennepin, sopac)
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Putting Evidence-based Practice to Work, Frank Cervone and Amanda Hollister
Frank:
Amanda:
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I thought some of you might be interested in my library’s “techie toybox” that I have been purchasing over the summer. What is a techie toybox? In our case, it’s a bunch of gadgets, cameras, and the like that library staff can check out and, well, do stuff with. Here’s the list of gadgets (photos of most can be seen here), and some suggestions I gave (on one of our staff blogs) for starters on how to use them:
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The Techie Toybox was started by a generous gift from the Friends. With it, we were able to purchase some “techie toys” with a few goals in mind:
Here’s what we have (with some starter ideas for trying the techie toys out - don’t limit yourselves to my ideas, though!):
Cameras:
What can you do with these? Photograph library programs and events, what’s happening at the library, departmental photos, etc - and dump the photos into the library’s flickr account. For starters…
Video Camcorders:
What can you do with these? Same as above, but with video instead of audio. Dump videos into the library’s YouTube account. Do something original… Start a weekly “what’s going on at the library” video magazine…
Portable PCs:
What can you do with these? See if you can work your desk shift using one of these rather than a service desk PC! Try roaming the stacks (both hook up to our wifi system). You will probably need some type of video editing program too… talk to Digital Services first (unless you already have some editing software, then go for it!).
Microphones and Audio recording:
What can you do with these? Record podcasts! Become a “library reporter for a day!” Podcast your committee minutes (ok, that one’s pretty boring… but might be useful, too). You will need audio editing software if you plan to play much with the audio files. Talk to Digital Services to get Audacity, an excellent, free, open source editing program.
Video/MP3 Players:
What can you do with these? Some of them will allow you to listen to our OverDrive ebooks. Others won’t, but our patrons are using them - so get familiar with them! Find out what you can and can’t do - what free ebooks are out there that WILL work… free music sites, etc. Play with the video - see what the video you made with the video equipment (above) looks like in a tiny format… Again, it’s possible that Digital services will need to hook you up with the appropriate software to fully test these out - don’t be afraid to ask!
Miscellaneous:
What can you do with these? The Sony reader already has some books (excerpts, I think) loaded onto it - try it out! Let others know how good/bad it is to read. With the WiFi phone, I plan to hook it up to a year long Skype phone plan for the library - then we can call people with it… using any wifi you can access.
So - that’s what we have. I plan on setting up a “show and tell” on these things, probably late November/early December. Stay tuned for more on that!
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So - what techie toys do other libraries have? Please share!
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I recorded a new song and video for y’all! This song is all about social networking and how people are using the emerging social web to connect with each other, to communicate… and in my case, to sing songs to my blog readers.
When writing the song, I was thinking about facebook, twitter, MySpace, and all the social connections that are happening 24/7 - I find it extremely fascinating.
Social Digital Global Shift
by David Lee King
I haven’t seen her since high school
never thought I’d see her again
but yesterday I got a facebook request
she asked to be my friend
so I took a little time to catch up
browsed through her photobucket and blog
I watched some funny videos of her kids
and then I wrote this song
’cause it’s a social digital revolution
social digital relationship
social digital communication
it’s a social digital global shift
I have friends around the world
they’re growing globally
some of them live in Saskatchewan
while others live in D.C.
Enjoy!
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Cool beans! Rachel Singer Gordon’s newest book, Information Tomorrow: Reflections on Technology and the Future of Public and Academic Libraries, just came out. I know, because I received a copy in the mail today.
And why did I receive a copy? Because I wrote one of the chapters! My chapter is chapter 10, An Experience to Remember: Building Positive Experiences on Library Web Sites. It’s about… you guessed it… experience design and library websites. If you read the chapter and still want more, never fear - I’m 2/3’s of the way through a whole book on the topic. So hold on to those longings 
But please don’t stop at my little chapter! There are a bundle of amazing authors in this book, including:
Wow - just wow. I’m thrilled to see my name in this smorgasboard of emerging library delight.
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On Monday, I spoke about Web 2.0 and emerging trends at the Lee County Library System’s staff day in Fort Myers, Florida. The day before, I worked extremely hard, as you can tell from the accompanying photo
Anyway… here’s the pdf of my presentation. And an FYI for those of you who are thinking “where have I heard of that library before?” You might have recently read about Lee County and their License to Play / learning 2.0 program in a couple of places.
Keep an eye on them!
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