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

Source: Technorati, 3/6/08

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

Blogs Library news Research tips Readers’ advisory Construction updates Meta-blogs

Library news

Research tips

Readers’ advisory

Construction updates

Meta-blogs

Wikis Staff homepage Library intranet Research guides Committee work Group projects Library instruction

Staff homepage

Library intranet

Research guides

Committee work

Group projects

Library instruction

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

Share event photos

Create virtual tours

Chronicle remodeling

Include patron photos

Embed photo badges and slideshows

Facebook 64 + million users 436 Library Pages 500 + Library groups 87 Library apps

64 + million users

436 Library Pages

500 + Library groups

87 Library apps

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

Tips and tricks in regular blog posts

Social component

Links

Homepage

Podcast?

Videocast?

What’s possible?

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!

Create a Wiki for a group or committee

Contribute to your Library's blog

Start a Flickr page

Get in Facebook

Play around!

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

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

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/19736449568

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/19736449568

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