College Center for Library Automation
Karen G. Schneider
College Center for Library Automation
Tallahassee, Florida
College Center for Library Automation
• Classic 2.0• 2.0 Best practices• Nouveau 2.0• Dubious 2.0• Wrap-up thoughts
College Center for Library Automation
User-centered
Focus on books and reading
Aware of your communit(ies)
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• We wait for you, you come to us• Tools serve the organization, not
the user• Information runs in one direction• We decide what’s important• Impersonal, “eat your vegetables”
sensibility
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College Center for Library Automation
• Collaboration
• Sharing
• Crowdsourcing
• Hive mind
• Mashups
• Engagement
• The human voice
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College Center for Library Automation
• User evangelists
• Librarian embeds
• Ministers of propaganda
• Usability hobbyists
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College Center for Library Automation
• Here today, gone tomorrow (some survive)
• Immensely pleasurable in the here-and-now
• Worth it for the experience
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• There is no “one” spot people hang out
• Many people don’t use social networking at all
• Many people use some networks some of the time
• People are fickle and the environment is evolving
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Two-point-oh-boy-oh-
boy!
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• RSS: oxygen for blogs
– (Should mean Really Simple Subscriptions!)– Stay current on your favorite blogs, news sites,
and much more
• Free RSS readers: Bloglines, Google Reader, Yahoo
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• Some good examples in the long form
• No breakthrough “J Lo” short video
• QandaNJ has a good short video
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• LibraryThing
• Delicious
• PennTags
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• Pick the approach that matches your mission
• Go where your users are
• Get to know your users
• Make it easy to engage
• Play with everything… but select strategically
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• Explore your blog’s visitors
• Follow your stats
• Track your social bookmarks
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• Read outside library science
• Play with new stuff just for fun
• Find a tool you like and get to know it thoroughly
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College Center for Library Automation
• Find five technologies that match your mission, skill sets, and tools
• Focus on three• Implement one wholeheartedly
– It can be a pilot/short series!• Explore if an old service can be given
up in order to provide a new service (1 – 1 = 0)
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• Measure
• Survey
• Assess
• Correct
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Three nouveau 2.0 sites…
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• Penntags Link
• AADL’s “post-library” page Link
• Library Facebook/MySpace pages “just because”
• Library YouTube videos over 59 seconds
• Gaming without a purpose
• Second Life
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College Center for Library Automation
I’m not having fun
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• Fits your mission
• Fits your users
• Fits your style
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• Karen G. Schneider
• http://freerangelibrarian.com