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“Next Generation” Technologies for the “Next Generation” Library User. OR: How to Get Students to Think that the Library is Cool Kristen DeVoe Electronic Resources Librarian College of Charleston devoek@cofc.edu http://www.cofc.edu/~devoek. The “Millennials”. Born between 1982-2000 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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“Next Generation” Technologies for the “Next Generation” Library User
OR: How to Get Students to Think that the Library is Cool
Kristen DeVoeElectronic Resources LibrarianCollege of Charlestondevoek@cofc.eduhttp://www.cofc.edu/~devoek
The “Millennials”
Born between 1982-2000 Have a positive view of technology Desire customization in all aspects of
their lives Are visual learners Easily multitask Get bored easily Extremely Tech Savvy
Putting Social Technology to Work for Your Library
Blogging RSS Feeds Wikis Video Podcasting Tagging/Social Bookmarking
Blogging
What’s a Blog? Academic Libraries with Blogs Blogging Glossary
Blogger Blogging Blogrolling Post
Blogging
Can be a successful way to promote library resources and services.
Easy to publish the content online Many blogging programs are free or
inexpensive.
Before You Blog
Who is your target audience? What is the purpose of the blog? What kinds of content will blog posts
include?
Before You Blog
Target Audience Who are they? Students, faculty, the outside
community? What are the typical readers like? What kinds of posts will target readers respond
best to? Short posts or longer detailed posts? Is a blog the best publication medium for your
audience? Is your target audience online in sufficient enough
numbers to make a blog worthwhile?
Before You Blog
Purpose & Content What are the key messages that you’re
trying to convey with your blog? What kinds of information will you include? Is your target audience interested in this
information? Will they read the blog?
Using Blogs in the Library
News and Events Blogs Book Review Blogs Promote Library Resources and Service
s Subject Specific Blogs
Choosing a Blog Platform
Local Software Installation or Remote Hosting? Factors to Consider
Archives Categories Search Comments Subscription Capabilities Syndication Design
Promoting Your Library Blog
Link on library homepage and secondary pages such as library events pages.
Catalog links-to and from the blog. Bibliographic Instruction Classes At the Reference Desk and Circulation Desk On college radio or tv stations and email lists. Courseware such as Blackboard or WebCT
Tips for a Successful Library Blog Regularly updated content – so that readers will
depend on and expect new daily content Good Content –Will your users follow a blog
that offers stories on schedule changes, new books, and policy reminders? Probably not. Give them ideas and information that keeps them coming back.
Can be maintained in 15-20 minutes daily. Blogs can involve considerable work. The last thing you want is spending any more than is necessary. With good content it can updated frequently.
RSS Feeds
What is RSS? Creating RSS Feeds Subscribing to RSS feeds
http://www.feedreader.com/ http://libraries.ou.edu/rss/
Why are RSS Feeds Useful?
RSS in the Academic Library
Announce the availability of new books and materials in a given subject area
Announce the availability of new electronic resources
Promote events organized in the library to faculty and students
Enhance Library Instruction for different courses by integrating appropriate resources
Announce availability of new research and learning opportunities in academic departments’ blogs
Promoting Library RSS Feeds
Bibliographic Instruction Classes Register your Feeds With Yahoo! RSS
Browse by Topic Directory http://help.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/my/cgi_rss_submission
Hand out informative flyers & bookmarks introducing the feeds at orientation and on library tours.
Wikis
What is a wiki? Content Management System A website in which content can be created
and edited by a community of users. Wikipedia is a good example of a wiki Pages connected by hyperlinks The strength of a wiki as a resource is
often dependent on the strength of the contributing community.
Wiki Components
Pages that the wiki community users can add to or edit (example)
Discussion area on each page example
Lists changes made to a particular page List of changes made to entire website Search function (example)
Benefits of Wikis
Easy to use Web-based Simple syntax (don't need to know HTML)
Anyone can make changes – you don’t have to contact the webmaster or subject guide editor to make changes
Many free and open source options Flexible and extensible
Wikis in the Academic Library
Subject Guides as Wikis Discussion section where users can add
comments to the subject guide Users can easily subscribe to RSS feeds
for particular subjects and be updated on changes to the subject guide
St. Joseph County Public Library (Indiana)
Ohio University CommWiki
Wikis in the Academic Library
Multi-Disciplinary Subject Guides (ex. A guide on women’s studies/film studies)
Events Pages Courseware for BI classes (example) Popular Reference Questions (Internal
Use)
Wiki Platforms
Hosted Wikia JotSpot PBWiki SeedWiki WetPaint
Installed (hosted on your server) MediaWiki PMWiki TWiki PhpWiki
Compare Wikis at WikiMatrix
Wiki Tips
“Seeding” the Wiki Documentation Developing Content Security Guidelines
Video
Create a library presence where your users are on video sharing sites like YouTube and Blip.tv
Can be a lot of fun! Video Podcasts and “Vlogging”
http://www.ahml.info/vlog/121806.asp
Video Sharing Sites
Google Video (beta) Blip.tv (beta) YouTube
Hosts over 6 million videos with a growth rate of 20% a month
Uses of Video in the Academic Library Promote New Library Products and Services (
example) Serve as an “icebreaker” in bibliographic
instruction classes (example) Promote the library staff and services (example) Highlight Special Events etc. At the Library (
example) Instructional Videos and Tutorials (example) Student Involvement through Video Contests (
example)
Video Equipment
Video Camera Some Video Editing Programs
Windows Movie Maker iMovie Final Cut Pro
Podcasting
Simple means of distributing audio (or video) content using syndication feeds (such as RSS)
Users can subscribe to a feed of a podcast’s audio content and receive automatic downloads of new content as it is made available online.
Podcasting
Record an audio file Add your audio file to an RSS feed Market your podcasts!
Bibliographic Instruction Reference Desk School Paper Orientation and Library Tours
http://www.podcasting-tools.com/ List of libraries with podcasts
http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Podcasting
Podcasting
Library Tours (example) Interviews with faculty, students, writers, etc.
(example) Recordings of library events and speakers Description of new resources Bibliographic Instruction Add subject specific podcasts to subject guides
http://www.podcast.net/ http://podcasts.yahoo.com/ http://www.podcastdirectory.com/
Podcasting
Audio Podcasts http://www.gpc.edu/~declib/podcasts.htm
Video Podcasts (Vodcasts) http://www.asu.edu/lib/librarychannel/
Social Bookmarking
What is Social Bookmarking? System for internet users to store, classify,
share, and search internet bookmarks. Relies on user “tagging” to describe
resources.(example) Users can click on tags to find other
resources related to that tag.
Social Bookmarking
Advantages Semantically classified tags Access bookmarks from any computer
connected to the internet find which sites are related to a particular
site ("who ever bookmarked this, also bookmarked...")
Share bookmarks with friends & colleagues
Social Bookmarking
Disadvantages No standard set of keywords (controlled
vocabulary) Mistagging due to spelling error No standard for the structure of tags
(capital letters, punctuation) Multiple meanings for one tag No indication of hierarchical relationship
(ex. Cat and Siamese)
Social Bookmarking
Demonstration Del.icio.us Connotea
Automatically extract bibliographic information Identifiy articles by DOI Import and export references Narrower focus (scientific community)
CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details Import and export references specifically designed to work with academic papers
Links
Blogging Links http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links/ind
ex.php?title=Academic_libraries www.blogger.com (free) www.livejournal.com (free) www.TypePad.com (fee) www.vox.com (free)
Links-RSS
Services that Generate RSS Feeds FeedXS Feedbuilder
http://www.feedxs.com/ RSS Headliner
http://www.webdevtips.com/webdevtips/codegen/rss.shtml
Links-RSS
Programs that Generate RSS Feeds RSS Builder (free)
http://home.hetnet.nl/mr_2/43/bsoft/rssbuilder/
FeedForAll (39.95) http://www.feedforall.com/
Links-Wikis
Wiki Applications Seed Wiki (free) http://www.seedwiki.com/ Schtuff (free) http://www.schtuff.com/ Media Wiki http://
www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki Instiki http://instiki.org/show/HomePage PmWiki http://www.pmwiki.org/
Example: https://wiki.lib.umn.edu/Staff/HomePage
Links-Video
YouTube http://www.youtube.com Blip http://www.blip.tv Google Video http://video.google.com/
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