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By Ellen Thompson & Alice Steiner, QUT Library, 2008
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Virtual Cultures
Managing our world of information…. a day in
the life of CI librarians
today we’ll look at:
• delicious - social bookmarking (what CI librarians have done with it)
• using Wikis to manage information, projects etc (Art Librarians Society conference planning)
• twitter, drupal etc - social networking (Art Librarians Society website)
• databases - alerting services, RSS feeds, google news etc • ePrints/google scholar/open source repositories - how to
find good quality info on the web• other tips for managing info – email filing
systems/filtering• endNote, zotero etc to manage bibliographies • images/video repositories - how to search (eg. Flicker and
Picture Australia)
del.icio.us in the library…
two approaches for presenting
subject resources:
the old
the new
Info sharing with other experts
Integrated info sharing
and networking:
Delicious tags,
Facebook and professional
groups integrated:
The personal and
professional co-habiting
Professional and social networking
• Interactive Drupal-based website for professional networking– web 1.0 to web 2.0 (ARLIS site)– Member portals: bios, photos, blogging,
forums– Collaborative authoring of site content
and documenting corporate memory– Communication, personalising,
networking, sharing expertise, encouraging dialogue
From this….
To this…
And if you just absolutely have to network to the most detailed
degree…..
http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter
Wikis
Wetpaint.com :
A wiki space for collaboratively planning a conference:
Info creation, documentation & sharing, decision making, planning management…
journal alerts/rss feeds
• Ejournal • Ebsco• Google news, ABC newsfeeds
adding an RSS feed
to a reader
journal alerts/rss feeds
journal alerts/rss feeds
journal alerts/rss feeds
journal alerts/rss feeds
email alerts – publisher info
publisher services
email alerts – publisher info
We set up profiles to match our subject
needs in the creative industries
And yes, we usually buy new library materials from online sources too – even eBay!
email alerts
current awareness :
TV
more email alerts…
current awareness :
internet resources
email alerts - news
subscriber email lists
managing schedules online
managing email
better quality info? google scholar
better quality info? ePrints
search across
ePrint and other digital repositories
Collaborative image sharing
• Cultural institutions are harvesting social image tools such as Flickr, to enrich their own online image collections and make them publically available through a common portal.
– Eg: Picture Australia
managing bibliographies- endNote/zotero
• these products allow you to:– keep track of all of your information resources
(save data from library catalogues, journal databases, the web etc)
– make notes about them– create bibliographies in many referencing styles– share your resources with other people
• zotero.org – free software - take the tour! http://www.zotero.org/videos/tour/zotero_tour.htm
• Endnote – free at QUT while you’re here http://www.library.qut.edu.au/services/endnote/
managing bibliographies- endNote/zotero
make your own notes etc!