wrl presentation 2007: library 2 point oh boy

College Center for Library Automation

Karen G. Schneider


Tallahassee, Florida


• Classic 2.0• 2.0 Best practices• Nouveau 2.0• Dubious 2.0• Wrap-up thoughts


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


• Collaboration

• Sharing

• Crowdsourcing

• Hive mind

• Mashups

• Engagement

• The human voice


• User evangelists

• Librarian embeds

• Ministers of propaganda

• Usability hobbyists


• Here today, gone tomorrow (some survive)

• Immensely pleasurable in the here-and-now

• Worth it for the experience


• 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


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


• Read outside library science

• Play with new stuff just for fun

• Find a tool you like and get to know it thoroughly


• 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


I’m not having fun

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• Fits your mission

• Fits your users

• Fits your style


• Karen G. Schneider

• [email protected]

• http://freerangelibrarian.com

wrl presentation 2007: library 2 point oh boy

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