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Welcome to Liblog 1 - a weblog of current web sites and stories dealing with the interface between technology and libraries. Sometimes the connection to the sphere of the library is tenuous... but in today's world, everything has an impact on libraries, on librarians... and on library users. If you find this weblog of interest, you may enjoy these other library weblogs as well.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Blending In: Librarians in the Networked Community
Chrystie R. Hill and Michael Porter, Webjunction
Robert D. Putnam - Bowling Alone. Thesis that distractions of technology were separating people, and causing a loss of social interaction.
Participatory web - approx. 2003.
2006 - "You" and web 2.0 technologies - are person of the year
Community and collaboration on a scale never seen before.Why is social web "scary" to some librarians? Are we scared to admit that libraries are about building community as well as providing access to content?
Jean Preer, American libraries Sept. 2001 - "Libraries must be part of society's thinking about how we develop and nurture social as well as information networks."
OCLC Reports - Pattern Recognition, Perceptions, and the new Social Networks report
Michael Porter
Examples of Libraries and tools they are developing for being "Social Nodes":
- Atchison PL, Kansas - small library that has done a good job. Main splash page is a blog. Right Column interesting - has link to "What's Going On Around Town"
- Arligton heights Memorial Library, IL. - Have a video blog, Quick chat with librarians
- Christ Church City Librarian, New Zealand - What's New
- Allen County Public Library (Ft. Wayne, IN) - appealing splash page. Bottom Right Corner - "Community resources". Partnerships that create "social node". Allen County Profile with business info, demographics, etc. Trying to drive the economy. History Center Digital Collections. Area Artists database. All about connecting with the community. Day In The Life Of... photos.
- Clark County - Promoting Wi-Fi zone, tool bar, rss feeds, etc. All given their own prime real estate on home page.
- Orange County (Florida) - Has page with "Innovations". "Shop OCLS" page top sell library - and non-library - merchandise.
- Topeka-Shawnee County - Interesting way they did survey from their home page (folding page idea).
- South Carolina State Library - connecting librarians. Also pointed out Web Junction Connecticut as example of this
Flikr - different ways that groups can coalesce ("Men's Shoes" group)
Uh-Oh! 2 years ago nearly 30% of people used Library Web sites; now, only 20%. What's going on?
Facebook is an example - people are going elsewhere to get some of the same information that they went to library web sites for before. But also... there is no place for people to "connect" with the Library at most library websites. To show how "connected" one can feel, Michel showed his Facebook page - one of multiple pages length - which was just one days activity.Labels: Chrystie R. Hill, IL2007, Michael Porter, Networked Communities
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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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