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Better Living Through Web 2.0
Sponsored by the Library Administration & Management Section of the New York Library Association
Management
Listen to Chuck
“If you're not on this wave you will be crushed by it.”
Charles R. McClure, Francis Eppes Professor of Information Studies and Director of the Information Use Management and Policy Institute at the School of Information Studies, Florida State University
What is Web 2.0?
CommunicateInteract
ShareCreate
Publish
http://www.wordle.net/
This is what 2.0 means.
Jessica Hagy Indexed www.thisisindexed.com
August 14, 2008
Frank & Rebekkah’s Top Ten Tips & Tools for 2008
#1: Sustainability
“We talk a lot about the new and the beautiful. But answer me this: how many abandoned and dead library blogs are on the web? How many no-longer-updated library MySpace profiles are there?”
- Sarah Houghton-Jan, June 29th, 2008http://librarianinblack.typepad.com
#2: Make the Tool Work For You
"Our New Website is a Blog"
• Use blog software (free) for content management
• Can you use a word processing program? Yes? Then you can do this!
• Keep your site current and engaging
• Does not have to look like a “blog”
From the article: “Our New Website Is a Blog,” by Meredith Farkas. American Libraries, October 2008
Local History Wiki
#3: Life Lived Through Google
• Gmail: web based email that RULES!
• iGoogle: Custom designed home page that can integrate your most used resources.
• Reader
• Calendar…
Living Through Google continued …
• Google Docs [http://docs.google.com]o Word processoro Spreadsheeto Presentation o Plenty of storage space
upload from and save to your desktopo Collaboration
#4: Widget, widget
• Build functionality into your existing web site using web tools:
Kinderhook Memorial Library
Directions to the Library
How to:
1. http://maps.google.com
2. Type in your address
3. Click on
#5: Web Awareness Beyond Your Own Web Site
• Community “interlinks”o Municipalityo School districto Countyo Others? [blogs, social services, arts, fire
company….]
• Review siteso Yelp
• Wikipedia
#6: Twitter
• Cleveland Public Library: http://twitter.com/Cleveland_PL
• Casa Grande Library System http://twitter.com/cglibrary
• Ada Community Library http://twitter.com/adalib
Twittering Resources
• Twitter-Library Instruction Wiki
• Twitter For Librarians: The Ultimate Guide
Links available at http://delicious.com/LAMS_NYLA
#7: OPACs*
• SOPAC
• LibraryThing for Libraries
TheSocialOPAC.net“Social OPAC application suite--an open source social
discovery platform for bibliographic data ”
• Faceted browsing• 100% customizable interface (Drupal template system)
• Ability to remove search limiters• Saved searches• Renewals, holds placement, and fine payment• Ability to customize the user experience via the
administrative control panel
TheSocialOPAC.net
Fish4Info.orgGenesee Valley Board of Cooperative Educational Services
#8: PR 2.0
• List your events in places other than your web site:o Local newspaper’s web calendaro BookSaleFinder.como LibraryThing Localo Eventful.como Zvents.com
• Participate in community blogs; other nonprofits/agency’s online environments
• Post on your local newspapers’ online comments area
• Facebook Events & Flyers• Free WiFi Directories
Solicit Feedback
The “Conversation Prism”
Created by Brian Solis
“Book Barn Promo”
http://marlborolibrary.org/wordpress/index.php?paged=3
Pulling It All Together
#9: Evaluation
Track hits and uses
Check comments
Mine user behavior
Engage staff and users by asking them for anecdotal evidence
From: “Measuring Progress,” By Michael Casey & Michael Stephens,
Library Journal, 4.15.08
[http://www.google.com/analytics/]
#10: Random Cool Stuff
• Doodle.com [http://www.doodle.com]
• LibraryStuff: A Weblog by Steven M. Cohen[http://www.librarystuff.net/130tools/]
• TwitPic [http://www.twitpic.com/]
• RSS Mix [http://www.rssmix.com/]
• PrintWhatYouLike.com [http://www.printwhatyoulike.com/]
• Kwout [http://kwout.com/]
• DarkCopy [http://darkcopy.com/]
• FeedMyInbox [http://www.feedmyinbox.com/]
Resource from Today’s Session:
Coming in 2009: LAMSCOMhttp://lamscom.wordpress.com/
: http://delicious.com/LAMS_NYLA
http://www.slideshare.net/freeskentlibrary
