Building a School Library 2.0

Dana DukicWest Island School

Hong Kong

Librarian looks at Web 2.0

Librarians use Web 2.0 tools

• to enhance their virtual library collections

• to communicate among themselves and with their users and

• for their professional development

Top 10 for librarians

• Podcasts• Wikis• Photo and video sharing • Blogs• Virtual maps• Start pages• Virtual worlds • Social bookmarks• Social networks• RSS feeds

Librarians and podcasting

Librarians as…..

• podcast users o use podcasts for information and professional development

• intermediaries - provide podcasts created by otherso search, classify and deliver podcasts created by others

• podcast creators o promote the libraryo teach IL skills o support students’ podcasts

Searching podcasts for others – Librarians’ intermediary role

Strategies• searching readymade directories and

searching engines• creating own custom searching engines

o Rollyo – “Roll Your Own Search Engine”o Google Custom Search Engine

Basic steps• Choose a name for your searchroll • Enter up to 25 Web site address • Choose a category in the Rollyo directory • Enter any number of keywords• Create searchroll

How does it work with Rollyo ?

How does it look in Rollyo ?

Examples of podcasts created with students

Three examples• RadioPopcorn

School radio channel for school news, learning and entertainment

• Thunderstorm Literary & topic research project

• Environment Environmental topics research

Wikis in school libraries

School librarians use wikis for many different purposes.

• library and information skills tutorials• reading lists• book reviews• professional resources• library associations web pages etc.

Wiki tools

There are many wiki tools available from the Internet. The most popular wiki software• PB Wiki • WetPaint • PMWiki • MediaWiki• WikiSpaces• Jot Spot

Two examples of librarians’ wikis

• ALESS (Association of librarians in English speaking schools in Hong Kong)o serves as the official website of ALESS groupo a collection of resources and tools for school

librarians’ professional developmento a built in web tracker shows visits from all over the

world

• Pyplibrary (initiated by librarian in Hong Kong)o initiated with the idea to develop reading list of picture

books that support individual learner profiles in IB curriculum

o supported by members from all over the worldo wiki is regularly visited since its beginning

Photo and video sharing Photo sharing tools

Video sharing tools

YouTube in libraries

YouTube is very popular with librarians.

• They select readymade videos with tutorials and other resources to create library video collections

• Librarians create their own videos, upload them on YouTube and use foro library marketingo library instructions o entertainment

ExamplesLingnan University Library Guide http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=Snt14MkjMWg

Brooklyn College Library: Borrowing Books from Other CUNY Libraries http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=6VpwBv6ehZQ

Blogs and blogging

Blogs can be very powerful tools in hands of librarians.

Librarians categorize blogs aso blogs from the Internet created by otherso blogs created by librarians

Blogs created by others

• Blogs can be useful information resource Advantages

up to date news may contain original ideas and stimulate

discussions interactive

• Downsides anyone can publish anything

Blogs created by librarians

• Blogs are great tools for librarianso include many great toolso appealing looko contents can be sorted by labels, dates..o allow comments

• But librarians also need to have in mind thato blogging takes time o blog needs to be updated regularly to maintain

readers’ interest and keep them coming back

What do librarians do with blogs ?

• provide library news and announcements • use as a school library homepage• present collections of links for specific

topics• supply lists of new books, reading lists

and book reviews • facilitate access to podcasts, slideshows

and videos • provide library instructional resources

Popular blogging software

• Blogger• Edublogs• WordPress• Blogmeister• LiveJournal

Book Browser – WIS Library blog

http://bookbrowsers.blogspot.com/

social cataloging tool

Virtual maps -Google Earth

• a geographic browser - a powerful tool for viewing, creating and sharing interactive files containing highly visual location-specific information.

• these files are called KMLs (for Keyhole Markup Language)

Layers and KML files

The Layers feature in Google Earth provides a variety of data points of geographic interest as maps, roads, terrains, and even buildings data.

• Layers content is created exclusively by Google or its content partners

• KML (or KMZ*) files are created by Google Earth users

*KMZ are zipped files containing more KML files

Searching Google Earth Resources

• KML Gallery (contains examples of KMLs that organizations, communities, and users have created using both Google Earth and Google Maps)

• Google Earth Community • Searching in Google advanced files with

KML or KMZ extension

What can librarians do with Google Earth ?

• librarians select, process and display KLM files in support of the school curriculum

ExampleGoogle Earth Resource (WIS Library)

Google Earth Resources

http://googleearthresources.blogspot.com/

Start pages - web remixing tools

Startpages are personalized professional tools that are easy to edit.

• Netvibes• iGoogle• Pageflakes • MyYahoo

Start pages in school library

Librarians use start pages to…• create a school library webpage with links to databases,

catalogs, local news, curriculum links, policies, procedures, mission statement, special events, photos, book reviews….

• aggregate RSS feeds from news sites, blogs, podcasts, wikis and all other sites that are regularly updated

• maintain professional pages with bookmarks, calendars, blog feeds, twitter, YouTube content, email, search engines….

Example: Spanish Language & Culture (WIS Library)http://www.netvibes.com/mylibrary#Spanish_Language_%26_Culture

Spanish Language & Culture Resource on Netvibes

Virtual worlds

Screen movie overview

Second Life

• valuable resource for teaching and learning • there is already a great number of learning

objects created by SL users available for free on the web

• here is an opportunity for librarians to add up a new collection of learning resources to their virtual libraries

Starting points for developing SL collection• Salamander project• International School Island

Salamander project

• a collaborative project that collects and evaluates 3D learning materials for K-12 and higher education learning institutions

• coordinated by staff at The Center for Advanced Technology in Education at the University of Oregon

• all resources are classified according to content area and learning engagement type

International School Island

• an Island in Second Life to support educators worldwide with an emphasis on International Schools Communities

Samples of Second Life resources

Virtual hallucination room

Heart Murmur Simulation

Genome Island

Sistine chapelRaphael’s tapestries

Social bookmarking tools“wisdom of the crowds” technique

• Collaborative filtering technology• Reducing the quantity of information by

assessing its relevance and value• drawing on the insights and discoveries of people

with similar profiles and interests

delicious social bookmarking

Using furl in school library

Social networks

• Many library professionals have discovered that social networks are well suited as a tool for developing their own social and professional networks online.

• Most popular ones…..

Going where patrons are

• Social networks are excellent outreach tool

Beth’s story (librarian at Brooklyn College Library )When Beth Evans's teenage daughter told her the only email she read was through her MySpace page, it was "a light bulb moment.“ No wonder all the announcements

the Brooklyn College Library had been sending students didn't seem to work! They probably weren't reading their email either.

Facebook as an outreach tool

With Facebook librarians can• create links to the OPAC and subscription

databases • provide a documentation on how to access

library resources off-campus• advertise library collections and services• release timely library-related news• embed catalog search boxes• use "The Wall" commenting feature to ask

students to suggest books and videos for the collection

West Island School Library on Facebook

Facebook as a multipurpose tool

RSS feeds – pull and push technology

Librarians use RSS feed to• pull information from the Internet

o they subscribe to blogs, wikis, podcasts, news websites, professional websites, various periodicals, etc.

• push information to library users abouto new books, periodicals, databases etco new services and programso updates on selected topics in print and electronic

formats etc.

Example: Creating searching profiles by using RSS feed in databases like EBSCO and PROQUEST (built in RSS feed)

Tools for mixing RSS feeds

• Any number of RSS feeds can be mixed into one unique new feed

Searching podcasts

KickRSS

RSS Mix

What next….?

• There is already a lot out there in Web 2.0 environment

• New stuff is constantly coming out

• It’s up to librarians to choose the tools and resources that they find useful and customize them to meet the needs of their users

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