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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
Integrating Libraries & Communities Online: Bookspace.org
Glenn Peterson and Marilyn Turner, Hennepin County Library
County of readers - on average, 17 items checked out per capita.
Goal of redesign - bring together relevant resources for particular genres/subjects
Easy to use for staff
Community able to contributeFiction page used as an example of what's on genre sections of Bookspace. Drills down to Humor section. A librarian's blog on each genre page. New Titles.
Who's doing all this work? Have a bookspace.org coordinator in their IT department, a hands-on developer. Coordinates workgroup of 5 librarians who do overall vision/planning. then 30 contributors who provide the content - have to post to blog at least once per month. Forms created to make publishing to blog easy - if they want to have a picture of the book with link to catalog, they just populate a ISBN form field! It is now part of their performance expectation (and evaluation).Customer Contributed Content:
Social features include: User comments on books and other titles. (Showed that Harry Potter and the deathly Hallows has over 230 comments on it!)
Can see what other titles users have commented on as well
Blogs
Book Lists - staff created, auto-generated, user-created (users can assign categories to their lists, automatically joining other lists in same category.)
Recent Comments - filterable
User profiles recently added - (so far, looks like only staff). Option to show what books you have checked out on a "wall of books" display.
Looking to add: Users who are reading this also read ______>br />
Ability to create "friends" who share your interests in reading.Database-driven
RSS Everywhere
ColdFusion (or ASP, PHP, etc.)Takeaways:
Drawn on library staff
Empower your users
Create opportunities for serendipity
Let users interact with each other.http://www.hclib.org/extranet for slides>
Labels: Bookspace, Glenn Peterson, IL2007, Marilyn Turner
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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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