1.
The Librarian DJ
Peter Alsbjer
Library director,
Örebro Public Library,
Sweden
peter.alsbjer@orebro.se
@peterals

2.
Curating is the new black!

3.
What is digital curation?
“…discovering, organizing,
and sharing relevant and
interesting content from
around the Web through
their social streams of
choice.” Brian Solis

4.
What is digital curation?
“Curation is all about building
knowledge-based collections of
relevant and related content. This
activity can extend well beyond
ebooks, as curations can incorporate
other electronic media such as
images, articles, video, and
audio”
Andrew Roskill, Library Journal

5.
Why curating new social
media?
- Promoting the library
- Showing off library expertise
- Explore and work together with
the library users

6.
Spotify – not only music
Language courses–
Language Superstar
Bird songs and other sounds
from the nature
Sounds for relaxation
Sound effects
Famous speeches from
important historical events
Audiobooks

7.
How would the soundtrack of
this book sound?

8.
…or this…

9.
… or for that matter, one of
these guys?

10.
And then put it on your
Pinterest Pin Board

11.
Collecting and sharing

12.
Collecting and sharing

13.
Collecting and sharing

14.
Good luck, explore, have fun
• Slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/Peteral/
• Pinterest:
http://www.pinterest.com/peterals
• Spotify
http://www.spotify.com/peterals