SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
Gino Roncaglia – Tuscia University – Viterbo (Italy)
for IASL 2009 – Padua, October 2-4 2009

RONCAGLIA – SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
Web 2.0 in eight key concepts
1. User Generated Content (UGC)
2. semantics
• formal ontologies
• social tagging
3. collaborative filtering
4. RSS feeds
5. embedding, reuse, mash-up
6. social networks
7. page interaction (Ajax, WebApps,
widgets)
8. interface design

RONCAGLIA – SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
Web 2.0 in eight key concepts
1. User Generated Content (UGC)
2. semantics
• formal ontologies
• social tagging
3. collaborative filtering
4. RSS feeds
5. embedding, reuse, mash-up
6. social networks
7. page interaction (Ajax, WebApps,
widgets)
8. interface design

RONCAGLIA – SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
Web 2.0 in eight key concepts
1. User Generated Content (UGC)
2. semantics
• formal ontologies
• social tagging
3. collaborative filtering
4. RSS feeds
5. embedding, reuse, mash-up
6. social networks
7. page interaction (Ajax, WebApps,
widgets)
8. interface design

RONCAGLIA – SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
Web 2.0 in eight key concepts
1. User Generated Content (UGC)
2. semantics
• formal ontologies
• social tagging
3. collaborative filtering
4. RSS feeds
5. embedding, reuse, mash-up
6. social networks
7. page interaction (Ajax, WebApps,
widgets)
8. interface design

RONCAGLIA – SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
Web 2.0 in eight key concepts
1. User Generated Content (UGC)
2. semantics
• formal ontologies
• social tagging
3. collaborative filtering
4. RSS feeds
5. embedding, reuse, mash-up
6. social networks
7. page interaction (Ajax, WebApps,
widgets)
8. interface design

RONCAGLIA – SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
Web 2.0 in eight key concepts
1. User Generated Content (UGC)
2. semantics
• formal ontologies
• social tagging
3. collaborative filtering
4. RSS feeds
5. embedding, reuse, mash-up
6. social networks
7. page interaction (Ajax, WebApps,
widgets)
8. interface design

RONCAGLIA – SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
Web 2.0 in eight key concepts
1. User Generated Content (UGC)
2. semantics
• formal ontologies
• social tagging
3. collaborative filtering
4. RSS feeds
5. embedding, reuse, mash-up
6. social networks
7. page interaction (Ajax, WebApps,
widgets)
8. interface design

RONCAGLIA – SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
Web 2.0 in eight key concepts
1. User Generated Content (UGC)
2. semantics
• formal ontologies
• social tagging
3. collaborative filtering
4. RSS feeds
5. embedding, reuse, mash-up
6. social networks
7. page interaction (Ajax, WebApps,
widgets)
8. interface design

RONCAGLIA – SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
Web 2.0 in eight key concepts
1. User Generated Content (UGC)
2. semantics
• formal ontologies
• social tagging
3. collaborative filtering
4. RSS feeds
5. embedding, reuse, mash-up
6. social networks
7. page interaction (Ajax, WebApps,
widgets)
8. interface design

RONCAGLIA – SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
Three tasks for school libraries
1. information literacy
2. active promotion of learning and
researching
3. information-driven support for learning
and educational activities
• with special emphasis on
information-driven, web based
organized informal learning

RONCAGLIA – SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
social networks
• the killing application of web 2.0
• 2/3 of the world on-line population use social network or blogging
tools
• already in 2007, 97% of US on-line population aged 9-17 was using
social network tools
• social networks are today more popular than e-mail
• social networks are the place to be if we want to implement web-
based informal learning

RONCAGLIA – SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
relation-oriented social networks content-sharing social networks
relations & content aggregation

RONCAGLIA – SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
a social network page
• should not be a ‘placeholder’
• its primary goal is to dynamically aggregate relevant information
• well-chosen widgets and applications might actually be useful!

RONCAGLIA – SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
social reading platforms
• personal bookshelf
• books I own
• books I did read
• books I want to read
• …
• collaborative filtering
• reading recommendations
• book-pal recommendations
• books rating, reviews, discussion

RONCAGLIA – SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
social reading platforms

RONCAGLIA – SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
social reading widgets & applications for social networks

RONCAGLIA – SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
more interesting widgets & applications for social networks…

RONCAGLIA – SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
…school and university libraries should be active agents in the world
of social networks, not just names within ‘placeholder’ pages. They
should not collect ‘fans’: they should dynamically aggregate and share
useful content and information, and help users in doing the same…

RONCAGLIA – SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
http://masterel.unitus.it
roncaglia@mclink.it