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BY ALLAN CHO
PROGRAM SERVICES LIBRARIANIRVING K. BARBER LEARNING CENTRE,
UBC LIBRARY
Social Media at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) LibraryBurnaby, British Columbia, May 18, 2010
Agenda in 30 Minutes
1. Target Audience & Community at IKBLC 2. What works, What doesn’t?3. IKBLC Initiatives in Social Media4. Opportunities & Challenges5. LIBR 559L
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Main audience: students, faculty & community
Core collection - Programs & Services
Digital Collection
IKBLC Units
Rare Books & Special CollectionsUniversity ArchivesArts One & Science OneChapman Learning CommonsSchool of Library, Archival, and Info Studies
(SLAIS)Office of Learning TechnologyScience & Engineering Library DivisionArt, Architecture, and Planning Library DivisionIKBLC Art Gallery
Target Audience @IKBLC
Millennials or “Generation Y” students
Faculty & Researchers
Community members
Popular Social Media Tools For College Students
(1) Youtube
(2) World of Warcraft
(3) Facebook
Informal vs. Formal Media
Rate My Professor.com vs. UBC evaluations
Xanga/CyWorld vs. UBC Wordpress
Facebook vs. Email
Digital Outreach Tools
IKBLC BlogTwitterFacebookFlickr / Google PicasaYoutube PartnersRSSDrupal (CMS)
Case Study: What didn’t work? iTunes U
Mac vs. PC dilemmaWeb as a platform (i.e. UBC
library stations do not have iTunes installed)
Slow to download Clunky interface
Youtube as a Digital Collection
ContentFunctionalityUserArchitecturePolicyQuality
Intellectual Property & Copyright
Who owns what?
Policies and consent forms for webcasts
(New Course) LIBR 559M at SLAIS
LIBR 559M (3 cr.)Social Media for Information
Professionals This course examines social media (i.e.
blogs, bookmarking, mashups, wikis, and social networking sites), its concomitant trends (i.e. web 2.0, library 2.0) and how web 2.0 principles can be applied to the delivery of information services in the digital age.
HTTP://WWW.SLIDESHARE.NET/GIUSTINID/LIBR559-M-SYLLABUSSUMMER
LIBR 559MSocial Media for Information
Professionals
Framework
Theoretical and practical – Affordance Participation Collaboration Creation Aggregation and Immersion
Highlights
Every student had established a blog with the expectation of an entry at least once a week and comments on classmates posts
Every student established a Twitter account with the expectation of activity
Highlights, cont.
Group projects with online peers require participation, collaboration and creation and the affordances of the 2.0 tools become apparent
Examples of group projects from fall semester: http://www.netvibes.com/librarysocialmediatutorial#Introduction_to_this_site http://www.slideshare.net/giustinid/prototypical-academic-library-pal-social-media-
training-presentation http://wiki.ubc.ca/Libr559m02
Most important things Deirdre learned:
Twitter is extremely valuable even if you don’t post – it’s a great current awareness tool, for example Dummies contest, The Book Ends
Screenr – now in use herePersonal aggregators can make it all manageable, i.e.
iGoogle http://www.google.com/ig
Worth mentioning...
Article published by Allan Cho, Dean Giustini & Daniel Hooker, Social Cataloguing for Health Librarians http://www.slideshare.net/giustinid/social-cataloguing-an-introduction
Simon Fraser University & Web 2.0
The Library's most recent 3-year plan named the integration of appropriate Web 2.0 features into the library website as a priority. The Web Ideas Working Group (WIWG)The Web Ideas Working Group (WIWG) tasked with making improvements to the library's public web pages. Goals are to:
(1) Examine and integrate current and emerging web technologies, including Web 2.0 features, in the Library's web site
(2) Elicit ideas for new web initiatives from staff and end users
(3) Provide training and information to staff and end users on new web technologies."
Email correspondence: Dean Giustini, 2009.
