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Monday, October 29, 2007
Liblog @ Internet Librarian - Day 1
The Transformative Library
John Blyberg, Darien Library
Bringing social elements to your library
Slide: triangle on left - Service (people) at top, Goods (books 'n' stuff) at bottom.
Circle on right - Three parts: Experience (participation), is added to the two parts that were in the triangle.The Three Social catalogs:
Pseudo-social - authority presented as collaboration (ie, III's Encore w/subject headings as a tag cloud like structure) But no feedback or real interaction with community. (Showed Michigan State univ. catalog as an example of Encore).
Syndicated Social - Third-party data (ie, LibraryThing). (Danbury Library's catalog useed as the example).
Individually social (ie, Hennepin, SOPAC). Showed Ann Arbor district Library's catalog as example. Noted that primary users at AADL are teens - and just a few teens use it the most. Possible danger of the small dataset being easily manipulated.Need to ask yourself - do we want user contributed data corrupting our pure library data :-)
Think of it as a merger - creating a social catalog by combining the library data with the social data.If you include folksonomy, do you want it to originate from syndicated data like LibraryThing's? Or to reflect your own local community (in which case, how do you have the community generate enough data? How do you prime the pump?
What kind of development is involved? Encore is turn-key, LibraryThing is cut-and-paste, Hennepin is a lot of developers.
Labels: IL2007, John Blyberg, Transformative Libraries
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Other web logs with links to library issues:
- Lori Bowen Ayre's Library Technology Musings provides "Hopes, dreams, wild ideas and practical solutions for libraries."
- Marylaine Block's Neat New Stuff I Found This Week (and her Ex Libris E-Zine for librarians.)
- Tara Calishain's Research Buzz, "news about search engines, databases, and other information collections."
- Blake Carver and Steve Galbraith's LISNews.com, focuses on (as the subtitle puts it), "news for information professionals."
- Steven M. Cohen's Library Stuff, provides readers with information on the wonderful and exciting world of librarianship.
- Gary Frost's Future of the Book, looks at "preservation and persistence of the changing book."
- Michael Gartenberg (an analyst with Jupiter Research, a market research and advisory firm focused on emerging technologies and the Internet) is one of several Jupiter researchers producing an Analyst Weblog.
- Brend Hough and Liz Rea's NEKLS Technology Weblog, "50 Feet From the Cutting Edge in the Northeast Kansas Library System."
- Sarah Houghton's Librarian In Black, has "resources and discussions for the 'tech-librarians-by-default' among us..."
- Jenny Levine, the original bloggin' librarian, is back with the Shifted Librarian, working to make libraries more "portable... to serve our remote patrons."
- Alex Soojung-Kim Pang (one of the Institute for the Future's research team) is producing Future Now, which looks at emerging technologies and their social implications.
- Gary Price and Shirl Kennedy's ResourceShelf has "resources and news for information professionals" (including the latest scoops on what's what with the invisible web).
- Michael Stephens' Tame the Web includes, "current technology uses in libraries, training tips and various other interests concerning library settings."
- Sandra Stewart at San Jose Public Library is producing a Library Tourguide to Blogs and Technology.
- Jessamyn West's librarian.net, keeping track of the nifty reference sites - and library references - she finds.
- Stephanie Wright's TechnoBiblio, where librarians and technogeeks speak the same language.
Not a weblog, but a very funny look at libraries:
- Unshelved - Bill Barnes' and Gene Ambaum's library comic strip (formerly known as Overdue.)
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