The Making Of A Social Librarian

Slide 1: The Making of a Social Librarian How Blogs, Wikis and Facebook Have Changed One Librarian’s Job Jennifer Kelley, Resident Librarian College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association March 22, 2008

Slide 3: Source: Technorati, 3/6/08

Slide 4: Library 2.0 simply means making your library's space (virtual and physical) more interactive, collaborative, and driven by community needs. Examples of where to start include blogs, gaming nights for teens, and collaborative photo sites. The basic drive is to get people back into the library by making the library relevant to what they want and need in their daily lives...to make the library a destination and not an afterthought. http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2005/12/library_20_disc.html

Slide 5: Blogs  Library news  Research tips  Readers’ advisory  Construction updates  Meta-blogs

Slide 6: Wikis  Staff homepage  Library intranet  Research guides  Committee work  Group projects  Library instruction

Slide 7: Flickr  Share event photos  Create virtual tours  Chronicle remodeling  Include patron photos  Embed photo badges and slideshows Photo: North Plains Public Library, OR

Slide 8: Facebook  64 + million users  436 Library Pages  500 + Library groups  87 Library apps

Slide 9: Library Secrets!  Tips and tricks in regular blog posts  Social component  Links  Homepage  Podcast?  Videocast? What’s possible?

Slide 10: What You Can Do Right Now  Create a Wiki for a group or committee  Contribute to your Library's blog  Start a Flickr page  Get in Facebook  Play around!

Slide 11: Links and References  The Librarian in Black, “Library 2.0 Discussion: Michael Squared” http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2005/12/library_20_disc.html  Wikis  University of Minnesota staff homepage wiki http://wiki.lib.umn.edu/  Escondido Public Library, DIY Intranet, http:// www.library.escondido.org/wiki.ppt  Blogs  Moraine Valley Community College Library http:// www.morainevalley.edu/Library/  Fauquier County Public Library http://www.fauquiercounty.gov/Government/Departments/library  Arlington Heights Memorial Library LibVlog http:// www.ahml.info/vlog/vault.asp

Slide 12: Links and References cont.  Flickr  Michael Stephens Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software. ALA Techsource, 2008  365 Library Days Project http://www.flickr.com/groups/365libs/  Picture Your Library, College of DuPage http://flickr.com/photos/codlibrary/sets/72157603458541767/  Facebook  College of DuPage Library http://www.facebook.com/pages/Glen-Ellyn-IL/College-of-DuPage-Library/1973

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