RRLC 2007 - Library 2.0 Technologies

Library 2.0 TechnologiesSara Greenleaf

Hobart & William Smith CollegesNovember 14, 2007

The Social Webalso known as “Web 2.0”

Disclaimer 1.

I am not a programmer.

Disclaimer 2.Time management during

presentations is not my strength.

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What is Web 2.0?“The new Web is a very different thing. It’s a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it’s really a revolution.”

--Time

Dec. 25, 2006 / Jan. 1, 2007

Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

Video by Michael Wesch, Kansas State University

Characteristics of Web 2.0

Participatory Expansive User-contributed User-controlled?

Social Implication

Self-presentation Privacy Are we redefining the concept of “friend”?

Agenda Blogs & RSS feeds Photo sharing Video sharing Social bookmarking and tagging Social networks Portals Identity

Blogs

Blogs Powered by RSS Chronological entry Text, images, audio, and video media Use of comments Readers = “push technology”

Life and Experience: The Most Popular Topic Among Bloggers

37% - “My Life and Experiences”11% - Politics and Government7% - Entertainment6% - Sports5% - General News and Current Events5% - Business4% - Technology2% - Religion, Spirituality, or Faith1% - Specific Hobby or Health Problem

Source: “Bloggers: A Portrait of America’s New Storytellers.” Pew Internet & American Life Project, July 19, 2006. Online. Accessed: 25 May 2007. http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/186/report_display.asp

E. H. Butler Library Blog

http://askehbl.wordpress.com

The Power of Comments

http://casapinka.typepad.com/

The Power of Comments

Keeping Up with Blog Content

Readers• Google Reader• Bloglines

Browsers• Firefox• Internet Explorer 7• Safari (Mac)

What’s “Reader-able”?

“Blogosphere”

Authoring BlogsFree blog authoring tools

Blogger (Google)www.blogger.com

WordPresswordpress.org

Blog Sandbox For practice blogging:

http://sarasandbox.blogspot.com

Want an invitation to practice/contribute? I need: your email address You’ll need: a Google account

Blog Sandbox

Photo Sharing

Flickr Online photo management and sharing

Users upload photos to profiles Includes options for:

Organization and sorting Description Sharing Comments Tags and notes

Getting Ourselves Out There

Librarian Trading Card

By Michael Stephens, Oct. 8, 20007

http://www.flickr.com/groups/librariancards/

Using Flickr in Libraries1. Murder by the Book @ APL

http://www.flickr.com/photos/theloudlibrarian/sets/1282646

2. Colorado College, Tutt Library http://www.flickr.com/photos/tuttlibrary/122698090

3. Storytime Van http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelcasey/34936045

4. “Dare to Read” Book Displays http://jclreaderscorner.blogspot.com/2005/10/dare-to-read-shawnee-library-book.html

5. New Jersey Library Association, Conference 2006 http://www.flickr.com/photos/njla/sets/72057594129281429

Anatomy of Flickr

Video Sharing

What is YouTube?“YouTube is an online video streaming service that

allows anyone to view and share videos that have been uploaded by our members.”

—YouTube Help.

YouTube Timeline Dec. 2005 – launch June 2006 – NBC partners with YouTube to

promote Fall 2006 shows July 2006 – 1st copyright lawsuit Oct. 2006 – Google acquires YouTube for $1.65

billion

The Impact of YouTube Media

Broad reach for the purpose of making a statement Consumer content

Agreements in place with networks and groups Authorized trailers, promotions

Educational content Tutorials, how-to’s

Public opinion 2008 elections

Content on YouTubehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ud92ZLccrY

Campaign 2008

http://www.youtube.com/republicandebate

Libraries and YouTubehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwCUtpbUWgk

(The L-Team / by Williams College)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMSk5zFVH4s(Tasty Choices @ Your Library / McCracken County Public

Library)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o3oAQnB60c(Gett Down with Your Funky Shelf / Gettysburg College)

http://libraries.mit.edu/tutorials/video/index.html(MIT Libraries Video Tutorials)

+ YouTube = ?

Source: The New York Times. Sept. 24, 2007.

Copyright (Re)Considered

A Fair(y) Use Tale

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/documentary-film-program/film/a-fair-y-use-tale

Creative Commons

AttributionNoncommercialNo Derivative WorksShare Alike

Social Bookmarking and Tagging

del.icio.us

Social Bookmarking Services which allow users to

Store or mark a Web site online (accessible anywhere)

Assign tags (or keywords) to that site Add notes or a review about the site See other people who have identified the same site View sites/links of others with similar interests

Tagging Introduces a human element to Internet resource

retrieval Allows people to organize resources in ways that

are meaningful to them

Tagging Keywords or phrases assigned Natural language Personal context and meaning Syntax according to site or resource User-developed innovative methods and

complex structures

Tagging Personal Natural language On-demand As-needed

Inaccurate Inconsistent Variants for the same

term or phrase Harry Potter Harrypotter HarryPotter! hp

del.icio.us

Integrating del.icio.us

For more information, read “What’s This?”

Link to del.icio.us

del.icio.us Tag Cloud

http://del.icio.us/tag/

del.icio.us User Experience

http://del.icio.us/sgreenleaf

A Collective Consciousness?“Because social bookmarking reflects the values of

the community of users, there is a risk of presenting a skewed view of the value of any particular topic.”

--Cyprien LomasEducause Learning Initiative

What might this tag cloud indicate about its creator?

Libraries and del.icio.us Delany Library

Secondary school in Australia Uses del.icio.us for web resources http://www.delanylibrary.com/ http://del.icio.us/delany_library

Thunder Bay Public Library del.icio.us tags rolled onto Web site http://www.tbpl.ca/internal.asp?id=283&cid=4548 http://del.icio.us/TBPL

Libraries and del.icio.us MIT Libraries

Uses RSS to feed their Virtual Reference Collection from del.icio.us

http://libraries.mit.edu/help/virtualref/ http://libraries.mit.edu/help/virtualref/cloud.html http://del.icio.us/virtualref

MIT Libraries’ Betas http://libraries.mit.edu/help/betas/

Libraries and Tagging

Rethlefsen, Melissa. Tags Help Make Libraries Del.icio.us: Social bookmarking and tagging boost participation. Library Journal. Sept. 15, 2007.

Available online: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6476403.html

Social Bookmarking Services Furl – www.furl.net Magnolia – ma.gnolia.com Google Bookmarks –

www.google.com/bookmarks

Connotea – www.connotea.org

Case StudyLibraryThing

(For Libraries)

LibraryThing LibraryThing

http://www.librarything.com A Very Short Introduction to LibraryThing

http://www.librarything.com/quickstart.php

Danbury Public Library http://cat.danburylibrary.org

Bowdoin College http://library.bowdoin.edu/opac/

Social Networks

Social Networks Online communities Shared interests and activities Interest in interacting with others Web-based Variety of interaction options:

Chat/Messaging Video Blogging Groups

Statistics on Social Networks

Market Share (Feb. 2007)1. MySpace – 80.74%2. Facebook – 10.32%3. Bebo – 1.18%4. BlackPlanet.com – 0.88%…7. Yahoo! 360 – 0.72%…11. Live Journal – 0.49%…20. myYearbook – 0.11%

Teens and Social Networking Assertions on the popularity of social networks:

Individuating and being unsupervised in a scheduled and structured society.

Virtual hangouts for socialization and meeting other teens with similar interests

Expression through page customization Quantification (both exaggeration and minimization) of

social status Convenience

But what about privacy? Among teens with online profiles, 66% limit their

access to their profile in some way. Can teens be identified from their profiles?

23% say it would be very easy 40% say it would be hard, but could be done 36% say it would be very difficult

1 in 3 online teens have been contacted by a stranger 65% of those teens ignored or deleted the contact

What’s a profile?

http://www.facebook.com

Application Integration

Portals

iGoogle

http://www.igoogle.com

netvibes

http://www.netvibes.com

Hype?“Sure, it’s a mistake to romanticize this any more than is strictly necessary. Web 2.0 harnesses the stupidity of crowds as well as its wisdom. Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.”

--Time

Dec. 25, 2006 / Jan. 1, 2007

Thank you!Questions?