Friday, March 28, 2008
Week 11 - online applications and tools - GoogleDocs
I like GoogleDocs & GoogleSpreadsheets. I use them so their applications for me are obvious. Being such a long way from NSL and many other libraries GoogleDocs is a great way for me to participate in meetings online, and collaborate in writing submissions and other material (without incurring travel expenses and the like). I can restrict my shared documents to viewers only or open them out to other collaborators who can also edit them. Different versions can be saved and by using coloured text all collaborators can quickly see who did what edit and how it fits overall. It's like having a draft document that everyone writes and from all the edits and suggestions a final document is created. I'm really looking forward to using this tool in some upcoming collaborations with some far-flung colleagues. It should be fun, but more than that it furthers the whole concept of collaboration and inspires each and every edit to be more than the last.
Week 10 - mashups - explore, discover, adventure
The whole idea of a mashup is pretty exciting. I like the idea of taking the map of Australia (or NSW) and overlaying it with book covers of stories set in particular towns, areas, states. Even a mashup showing authors and their home towns, etc. To further this reading map concept have a join-the-dots type scenario where readers can read their way across a state, along a highway, from the Top End to the Bite. Themed mashups have such options and creativity that the sky is reasonably endless - romance in rural NSW, crime across Victoria, early Australian life from discovery to Federation, ...... the possible list is limitless.
Week 9 - podcasts - adventure
Where was the Hannibal podcast from Stanford when I was studying Ancient History????? I feel so betrayed.
This is such a cool thing - the new line in online learning. It's not just visual, it's aural - the combination of the two, from a learning perspective is such a great leap and suits all thos edifferent learning types (I may have remembered a whole lot more about Hannibal if I had listened as well as read and he was one of my favourite characters from Ancient Rome).
I did find navigating the iPod downloads a little tricky - not as straight forward as I would have liked.
The Yahoo search worked a whole lot better and I found a great podcast "Hannibal is at the gates" not to mention a whole lot more on Military History - a wonderful door has now opened that I didn't realise was there. This info is not restricted to the sole domain of Universities and other centres of learning, it's out there for everyone, and gloriously free at that. What a great thing!
This is such a cool thing - the new line in online learning. It's not just visual, it's aural - the combination of the two, from a learning perspective is such a great leap and suits all thos edifferent learning types (I may have remembered a whole lot more about Hannibal if I had listened as well as read and he was one of my favourite characters from Ancient Rome).
I did find navigating the iPod downloads a little tricky - not as straight forward as I would have liked.
The Yahoo search worked a whole lot better and I found a great podcast "Hannibal is at the gates" not to mention a whole lot more on Military History - a wonderful door has now opened that I didn't realise was there. This info is not restricted to the sole domain of Universities and other centres of learning, it's out there for everyone, and gloriously free at that. What a great thing!
Week 9 - podcasts - discover & explore
Podcasting opens up such a new world.
I enjoyed the podcasts from the Library Success wiki - Book Talks Plain & Simple - and could immediately see their use in a Public Library for all those RA questions when someone wants to know about a book. This quick little snippet/blurb neatly entraps you to want to listen to the rest of the book and you are left with the author/title info so you can immediately rush out and reserve the book.
What would be really good is a link to the podcast from within the library catalogue so that for every podcasted title you can listen to the blurb and decide from that (as well as cover info if you've got Syndetics) whether or not you want to borrow/reserve the item - you can do this at home, in the library, anywhere and everywhere - you don't have to have th eitem in your hand reading the blurb itself to decide what you think.
As an aside this could then reduce the size of bib records because you wouldn't need to add the blurb onto the record, just the podcast link. For the hearing impaired the transcript of the podcast could be linked to the record also reducing the size of the bib record (I personally find long detailed narrative descriptions within bib records to be highly annoying).
And the best thing? To have these podcasts available for download through Libraries Australia as an intrinsic cataloguing function - that way everyone gets to share.
The podcasts from ABC Radio National mean that if you miss a show or discussion down the street a few weeks later someone talks about "oh yes, I heard this on the radio and they said ............" you can go back and find it and listen to it. If you missed it on the day it doesn't mean you've missed it forever and it's so much nicer than reading the transcript which doesn't have the same feel as listening to the show "live".
What other benefits does podcasting have for libraries? Author talks - up there and available within days/hours/minutes/live! Combined with vodcasts this is such a huge area for expansion. I know some libraries are already doing and loading visuals to YouTube etc., this is certainly an area where we can expand, grow, learn, and develop some real skill and professionalism - beyonmd the home-movie feel.
I enjoyed the podcasts from the Library Success wiki - Book Talks Plain & Simple - and could immediately see their use in a Public Library for all those RA questions when someone wants to know about a book. This quick little snippet/blurb neatly entraps you to want to listen to the rest of the book and you are left with the author/title info so you can immediately rush out and reserve the book.
What would be really good is a link to the podcast from within the library catalogue so that for every podcasted title you can listen to the blurb and decide from that (as well as cover info if you've got Syndetics) whether or not you want to borrow/reserve the item - you can do this at home, in the library, anywhere and everywhere - you don't have to have th eitem in your hand reading the blurb itself to decide what you think.
As an aside this could then reduce the size of bib records because you wouldn't need to add the blurb onto the record, just the podcast link. For the hearing impaired the transcript of the podcast could be linked to the record also reducing the size of the bib record (I personally find long detailed narrative descriptions within bib records to be highly annoying).
And the best thing? To have these podcasts available for download through Libraries Australia as an intrinsic cataloguing function - that way everyone gets to share.
The podcasts from ABC Radio National mean that if you miss a show or discussion down the street a few weeks later someone talks about "oh yes, I heard this on the radio and they said ............" you can go back and find it and listen to it. If you missed it on the day it doesn't mean you've missed it forever and it's so much nicer than reading the transcript which doesn't have the same feel as listening to the show "live".
What other benefits does podcasting have for libraries? Author talks - up there and available within days/hours/minutes/live! Combined with vodcasts this is such a huge area for expansion. I know some libraries are already doing and loading visuals to YouTube etc., this is certainly an area where we can expand, grow, learn, and develop some real skill and professionalism - beyonmd the home-movie feel.
GoogleMaps fun
As an aside to everything else I've been having fun with GoogleMaps lately and think it's kinda cool being able to create your own map and embed the results in your blog (or where ever). Here's one I prepared earlier.....
View Larger Map
It shows general directions from Grafton (me) to Salt Ash (my parents).
What's cool about this? Aside from the fact that it creates the html code for me (just cut and paste), it's an easy way to keep track of maps if & when I may need them again, and when blogs are shared it's a simple way of coordinating a trip where all collaborators can go in and view the suggested route/itinerary. I like it.
I don't really need a map from Grafton to Salt Ash (I could probably drive it blindfolded if I had to) but I'm using this aspect to keep track of the next planned Biblio Turismo run scheduled for May this year - bound to be fun!
View Larger Map
It shows general directions from Grafton (me) to Salt Ash (my parents).
What's cool about this? Aside from the fact that it creates the html code for me (just cut and paste), it's an easy way to keep track of maps if & when I may need them again, and when blogs are shared it's a simple way of coordinating a trip where all collaborators can go in and view the suggested route/itinerary. I like it.
I don't really need a map from Grafton to Salt Ash (I could probably drive it blindfolded if I had to) but I'm using this aspect to keep track of the next planned Biblio Turismo run scheduled for May this year - bound to be fun!
Monday, March 17, 2008
Week 8 - answerboards & social searching
Okay, now I'm a big believer in the role Libraries and Librarians (esp. Reference Librarians) can play on the AnswerBoards. Aside from the fact that it's a bucket load of fun it's a huge learning experience. I must admit that I have learned so much more in the last 6 months about using the Internet as a reference tool than I have in the last 5 years.
I have been Slamming since September 2007 - some months I get right into it for the whole day and answer as many questions as I can, other months I'll be lucky to answer 1. But the way I look at it, out there on those AnswerBoards are people who aren't coming into the library to ask their questions (in person or remotely) so therefore they are still my client base beacuse I never know from one question to the next just where that person is from and it may be that they are in fact one of my local constituents. But even if they weren't they are still asking questions and helping people find the answers to their questions is 1. what I do, 2. what I'm trained to do, and 3. what I'm jolly good at doing. So I tend to think that on the 10th of every month someone out there is getting the benefit of an experienced and qualified answer to their question - that, and they are being taken seriously, their question is valued.
On a side not, getting your answer chosen as 'Best Answer' is the absolute best buzz!!
Beyond all this though, Slam the Boards means I am part of an online community of like minded Librarians seeking to help as many people as we can around the world find answers and learn that Libraries are great places and Librarians are great people. WikiAnswers has recently come on board to give all registered Slam the Boards Librarians contributor status on WikiAnswers which further cements the quality of answer given and the validity of its contribution.
To further cement the value of the monthly Slam, the School of Information & Library Science at the University of North Carolina is taking on a study of Yahoo Answers to see whether or not the answers provided by and tagged by Librarians are being chosen 'Best Answer' over other answers provided - to see whether or not we are in fact providing value for service and being recognuised for it.
Current count there were 106 participating Libraries/Librarians - including 2 from Australia and 1 from New Zealand.
I have been Slamming since September 2007 - some months I get right into it for the whole day and answer as many questions as I can, other months I'll be lucky to answer 1. But the way I look at it, out there on those AnswerBoards are people who aren't coming into the library to ask their questions (in person or remotely) so therefore they are still my client base beacuse I never know from one question to the next just where that person is from and it may be that they are in fact one of my local constituents. But even if they weren't they are still asking questions and helping people find the answers to their questions is 1. what I do, 2. what I'm trained to do, and 3. what I'm jolly good at doing. So I tend to think that on the 10th of every month someone out there is getting the benefit of an experienced and qualified answer to their question - that, and they are being taken seriously, their question is valued.
On a side not, getting your answer chosen as 'Best Answer' is the absolute best buzz!!
Beyond all this though, Slam the Boards means I am part of an online community of like minded Librarians seeking to help as many people as we can around the world find answers and learn that Libraries are great places and Librarians are great people. WikiAnswers has recently come on board to give all registered Slam the Boards Librarians contributor status on WikiAnswers which further cements the quality of answer given and the validity of its contribution.
To further cement the value of the monthly Slam, the School of Information & Library Science at the University of North Carolina is taking on a study of Yahoo Answers to see whether or not the answers provided by and tagged by Librarians are being chosen 'Best Answer' over other answers provided - to see whether or not we are in fact providing value for service and being recognuised for it.
Current count there were 106 participating Libraries/Librarians - including 2 from Australia and 1 from New Zealand.
Week 7 - adventure - LibraryThing
I must admit to not using LibraryThing since I first joined oh so long ago. Looking at it again I can see its social value - at a glance you can see how many other people have your book, you can read comments, give it a star rating and really connect with other readers.
I've now linked my LibraryThing library to my blog.
Personally I prefer to use Shelfari . On a balance I see them both as pretty much the same. I guess I've just spent more time on Shelfari. As with Library Thing I can also link my Shelfari bookshelf to my blog (which I've done). After a while I go with the one that best suits me and tend to let the others fall by the wayside.
I know that some Library Management Systems (eg Spydus) are looking at linking to LibraryThing within their catalogues so that patrons, staff, etc can comment on and rate the collection but I think it is certainly worth looking at what the others can offer too.
I've now linked my LibraryThing library to my blog.
Personally I prefer to use Shelfari . On a balance I see them both as pretty much the same. I guess I've just spent more time on Shelfari. As with Library Thing I can also link my Shelfari bookshelf to my blog (which I've done). After a while I go with the one that best suits me and tend to let the others fall by the wayside.
I know that some Library Management Systems (eg Spydus) are looking at linking to LibraryThing within their catalogues so that patrons, staff, etc can comment on and rate the collection but I think it is certainly worth looking at what the others can offer too.
Week 7 - discover 2 - technorati
Okay, I found no difference between the results of a keyword search and the advanced search for "bookmobile" though it did take me a moment to realise there were 4 tabs to choose from - posts, blogs, photos, and videos. At first glance they all looked the same.
With the second search for "nswpln2008" I was initially put off by the fact that on the posts tab there were no hits at all what at first I took to mean 'no hits at all across all 4 tabs'. When I went back and did the search again I realised this was not the case: no posts, no blogs, no videos, but quite a few photos. This was a humble lesson in paying attention to the details and not assuming that just because the first search tab was empty that all the tabs were empty.
I've not used techorati much at all so may just need to play around with it a bit more to get the best out of it.
With the second search for "nswpln2008" I was initially put off by the fact that on the posts tab there were no hits at all what at first I took to mean 'no hits at all across all 4 tabs'. When I went back and did the search again I realised this was not the case: no posts, no blogs, no videos, but quite a few photos. This was a humble lesson in paying attention to the details and not assuming that just because the first search tab was empty that all the tabs were empty.
I've not used techorati much at all so may just need to play around with it a bit more to get the best out of it.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Week 7 - Explore
The instructions were simply and easy to use. Having joined del.icio.us some time ago it was good to go back in and really look at its usefulness and usability. So now my del.icio.us account is linked to my blog and the world has opened up in a whole new social way.
Week 7 - Tagging, folsonomies, del.icio.us, LibraryThing - discover
My big discovery was the careful planning and arrangement that had gone into Sutherland Library's tags - not a jumbled, haphazard array but neat and tidy and categorised. Shows how the sheer volume of tags can be controlled.
Also the choices - tag list, tag cloud, frequency tag list. You're not stuck with the one option, you can change it any time and rearrange it as well.
Also the choices - tag list, tag cloud, frequency tag list. You're not stuck with the one option, you can change it any time and rearrange it as well.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Week 6 - videos - adventure
Task: find a video I like and embed it into my blog........ Hmmmm. Decisions, decisions.
I did a bit of searching for this and that and something else and finally settled on my favourite reptile, the Eastern Water Dragon. I don't have any live footage of my own Dragon (only photos) and found the search for someone else's footage an education in itself. In the end I settled on this one - it's informative, the dragons are in a replicated natural environment and human intervention in the video was nil. (It sure beat the videos showing water dragons tethered on a woven leather leash so they wouldn't escape whilst the video was being shot - those I was horrified by.)
There were a couple of ways I could have shared this video but have found that the easiest by far is to move from the 'compose' tab to the 'edit html' tab and copy in the 'embed' data from the video page.
I did a bit of searching for this and that and something else and finally settled on my favourite reptile, the Eastern Water Dragon. I don't have any live footage of my own Dragon (only photos) and found the search for someone else's footage an education in itself. In the end I settled on this one - it's informative, the dragons are in a replicated natural environment and human intervention in the video was nil. (It sure beat the videos showing water dragons tethered on a woven leather leash so they wouldn't escape whilst the video was being shot - those I was horrified by.)
There were a couple of ways I could have shared this video but have found that the easiest by far is to move from the 'compose' tab to the 'edit html' tab and copy in the 'embed' data from the video page.
Week 6 - videos - explore
I have to say the time lapse photography of the Qld State Library's construction project reminded me of a Peter Gabriel videoclip. Yet I was also struck by what it achieves - in a short 2.02 minutes a building site goes from nothing to something. Here you can 'see' vision take shape.
Then the Staff orientation video from PLCMC showed a neat way of presenting a professional image which all and any staff could access from anywhere. In a Regional Library network this sort of 'distanceless' orientation process is a huge bonus. With training days so hard to organise across distances and time and staff here is an 'easy' way of ensuring that the same message gets to all staff within the overall library service. The possibilities here are endless.
And Video Coolness - yay. For me this would be the best - video footage of a book group in action. Discussions, laughter. coffee, digression. All the things that the best bookgroups are made of. Book reviews online and available via the library website - the coolest stuff in RA available!
Across ages and genres the possibilities are absolutely endless!
Then the Staff orientation video from PLCMC showed a neat way of presenting a professional image which all and any staff could access from anywhere. In a Regional Library network this sort of 'distanceless' orientation process is a huge bonus. With training days so hard to organise across distances and time and staff here is an 'easy' way of ensuring that the same message gets to all staff within the overall library service. The possibilities here are endless.
And Video Coolness - yay. For me this would be the best - video footage of a book group in action. Discussions, laughter. coffee, digression. All the things that the best bookgroups are made of. Book reviews online and available via the library website - the coolest stuff in RA available!
Across ages and genres the possibilities are absolutely endless!
Week 6 - Videos online - discover
I love YouTube, I find all sorts of lovely and wonderful surprises each time I visit! Firstly I searched for lego and played around with the Indiana Jones lego game, then I searched for Kogarah Library and came across a live band performance in the library, lastly Liverpool Plains brought me a Harvesting 2006 video. All good
Next I did the same at Google Video. This time I noted the difference between a search using "all viedos" and one using "videos hosted by google". The first had hits with YouTube and many others, the second was a much smaller result.
So which were my favourite videos? Well all kids love lego so I couldn't go past Indiana Jones:
& Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
As a finale though I came across Paul McDermott & Fiona Horne performing Shut Up/Kiss Me live.
Like I said, all good.
Next I did the same at Google Video. This time I noted the difference between a search using "all viedos" and one using "videos hosted by google". The first had hits with YouTube and many others, the second was a much smaller result.
So which were my favourite videos? Well all kids love lego so I couldn't go past Indiana Jones:
& Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
As a finale though I came across Paul McDermott & Fiona Horne performing Shut Up/Kiss Me live.
Like I said, all good.
Friday, March 7, 2008
Cool wiki moment
I just went to the RA wiki and thought I'd check out a few of the pages and noticed that the page for Genre Lists has a link to Crime authors, but not to any of the other genre lists I know are there. Playing around with this I realised that it is the tags which link these pages together and ensure that they appear at the bottom of the others' pages. So then I went through and put in relevant tags in Medieval Mysteries, Paranormal Romance, and Genre Lists which reflected each other and ensured that they linked. This way no matter what genre page I am on I can get to the others quickly and easily within the page rather than from the left side menu.
The tags are the key - I guess that's my own little epiphany for the day
The tags are the key - I guess that's my own little epiphany for the day
Week 5 - Wikis .... Explore (part 2)
Okay, got my invite key to the Learning 2.0 wiki and edited a few pages. I liked answering the questions as they got me to really think about what I do, why I do it, and how I would talk about it to others who've got no idea what being a Librarian is all about. To make my answers distinguishable from others I changed the colour of the text and signed it CatyJ.
Yep, fun.
Yep, fun.
Week 5 - Wikis ..... Adventure
As I'm currently living in Grafton I jumped over to the Wikipedia entry for Grafton and was left thinking hmmmm, someone has gone in and done a very good job here already so then I decided to find entries for every town I have ever lived in (bound to be quite an adventure as I'm rather prone to wander...!).
Anyway, here goes......
Elanora Heights ; Narara ; Herons Creek/Kendall ; Griffith University / Nathan / Mt Gravatt ; Maroubra ; Clovelly ; Coogee ; Bronte ; Randwick ; Narrabri ; Bellata ; Mount Victoria/Blue Mountains ; Walgett ; Collarenebri; Tamworth/Calala/Tintinhull; Grafton .
Whew! What a trip.
I was quite curious to see if there was an entry for Herons Creek as this is a tiny village just north of Kendall & Kew and the closest place of habitation to the farm I grew up on. Herons Creek has a timber mill which serves the local industry - many is the time a timber jinker has given me a lift home from the bus stop out on the highway! Thinking about it though and really taking a solid look at what is on Wikipedia as far as towns and cities go, most of this information is provided by clever Councils/LGAs seeking to establish an online informational link for people who want to know about that place. For the Port Macquarie-Hastings Shire Council, their wikipedia pages detail the main towns and industry within the area from a Council-based tourism point of view. A little place like Herons Creek is off the map and simply doesn't cut it as a tourist destination - I have to admit to being quite happy when I left the area - so doesn't get a mention. Which I guess brings me around to the point that you really need to think carefully about what you're putting out there on the web. Getting everything and anything out there is not necessarily a good thing, after all what are we trying to achieve by doing this?
So, should I add a page to Wikipedia about Herons Creek? Maybe. But I think that if I did I would focus on the industry side of things and link it to the Timber Industry and perhaps also the historical angle for the Hastings area with a neat tie in to Wauchope and TimberTown rather than to the LGA.
Anyway, here goes......
Elanora Heights ; Narara ; Herons Creek/Kendall ; Griffith University / Nathan / Mt Gravatt ; Maroubra ; Clovelly ; Coogee ; Bronte ; Randwick ; Narrabri ; Bellata ; Mount Victoria/Blue Mountains ; Walgett ; Collarenebri; Tamworth/Calala/Tintinhull; Grafton .
Whew! What a trip.
I was quite curious to see if there was an entry for Herons Creek as this is a tiny village just north of Kendall & Kew and the closest place of habitation to the farm I grew up on. Herons Creek has a timber mill which serves the local industry - many is the time a timber jinker has given me a lift home from the bus stop out on the highway! Thinking about it though and really taking a solid look at what is on Wikipedia as far as towns and cities go, most of this information is provided by clever Councils/LGAs seeking to establish an online informational link for people who want to know about that place. For the Port Macquarie-Hastings Shire Council, their wikipedia pages detail the main towns and industry within the area from a Council-based tourism point of view. A little place like Herons Creek is off the map and simply doesn't cut it as a tourist destination - I have to admit to being quite happy when I left the area - so doesn't get a mention. Which I guess brings me around to the point that you really need to think carefully about what you're putting out there on the web. Getting everything and anything out there is not necessarily a good thing, after all what are we trying to achieve by doing this?
So, should I add a page to Wikipedia about Herons Creek? Maybe. But I think that if I did I would focus on the industry side of things and link it to the Timber Industry and perhaps also the historical angle for the Hastings area with a neat tie in to Wauchope and TimberTown rather than to the LGA.
Week 5 - Wikis .... Explore
I've had a quick look at the new Learning 2.0 wiki and ran through the pbwiki tour, now I'm just waiting for the invite key so I can go in and play. The thing that has struck me most this morning is that whilst each of the wikis I've looked at is essentially different they are also essentially the same so though the look of one is so different to another I feel reasonably confident about editing the Learning 2.0 pbwiki simply becasue I have already played around in Wikipedia and the Readers Advsiory wiki (which uses Wetpaint).
Week 5 - Wikis ....Discover
After watching the video clip (great for graphically providing an idiot-proof version of what is a wiki and why they are good to use) and reading through the Wikipedia entry, I then checked out the following wikis -
Wisconsin Heritage Wiki, the full Library Success: A best practices wiki, Book Lovers Wiki at the Princeton Public Library, and Wookieepedia.
I loved Wookieepedia - it was bright, fun and heh it's Star Wars so it can't go wrong, it's advantage is that the subject matter alone is what inspires contribution and collaboration; The Winsconsin Heritage Wiki is very much a user-based rather than visitor-based wiki and I have to admit I got a little lost; I liked the Library Success wiki because it used the simple format that is key to Wikipedia's success - after a brief intro to the topic there is a contents list which quickly shows you what you will find and will also take you straight there - easy to use for longtime players and the new. Lastly I visited the Book Lovers wiki, no guff just straight into what the wiki is all about with a clear concise and positive review about a book about toilets and plumbing (!). The arrangement of the page led me to be instantly interested and then keen to expliore the rest of the page which I could easily and readily do. Finally, and possibly more important from a social networking angle - I felt welcomed.
Now to explore ..............
Wisconsin Heritage Wiki, the full Library Success: A best practices wiki, Book Lovers Wiki at the Princeton Public Library, and Wookieepedia.
I loved Wookieepedia - it was bright, fun and heh it's Star Wars so it can't go wrong, it's advantage is that the subject matter alone is what inspires contribution and collaboration; The Winsconsin Heritage Wiki is very much a user-based rather than visitor-based wiki and I have to admit I got a little lost; I liked the Library Success wiki because it used the simple format that is key to Wikipedia's success - after a brief intro to the topic there is a contents list which quickly shows you what you will find and will also take you straight there - easy to use for longtime players and the new. Lastly I visited the Book Lovers wiki, no guff just straight into what the wiki is all about with a clear concise and positive review about a book about toilets and plumbing (!). The arrangement of the page led me to be instantly interested and then keen to expliore the rest of the page which I could easily and readily do. Finally, and possibly more important from a social networking angle - I felt welcomed.
Now to explore ..............
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Diffusion vs. concentration
Lorcan Dempsey's blogpost - The Two Ways of Web 2.0 - discusses the diffusion and concentration of Web 2.0. I was particularly struck by his final comments:-
"When we discuss Web 2.0, there is a temptation to think about blogs and wikis, RSS and a Facebook application, and to stop there. There is also some useful thinking about how to expose web services or data in ways that they can be remixed into other applications. However, Web 2.0 is also about concentration, concentration of data, of users and of communications. We need also to think about how libraries reconfigure services in an environment of network level gravitational hubs, driven by network effects. This will involve greater concentration of library resources in various ways, and also - probably? - greater reliance on other web presences to deliver their services. "
"When we discuss Web 2.0, there is a temptation to think about blogs and wikis, RSS and a Facebook application, and to stop there. There is also some useful thinking about how to expose web services or data in ways that they can be remixed into other applications. However, Web 2.0 is also about concentration, concentration of data, of users and of communications. We need also to think about how libraries reconfigure services in an environment of network level gravitational hubs, driven by network effects. This will involve greater concentration of library resources in various ways, and also - probably? - greater reliance on other web presences to deliver their services. "
"work 20% differently, not 20% more..."
Ellen has just emailed this link around discussing changing work practices as a result of emerging web 2.0 technolgies and the rise of social media - http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2008/03/06/resourcing-for-social-media-social-media-cultural-communication-2008-conference/
Harper College Library
Pam sent me this link from WebJunction to Harper College's YouTube tour around the library. You can't help but smile........
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