Surviving In Digital Age Challenges--------  Opportunities-----  By: Ata ur Rehman Coordinator, LISolutions

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Contents Introduction Opportunities Challenges Starting Point Conclusions Q & A [email_address]

Introduction

Opportunities

Challenges

Starting Point

Conclusions

Q & A

Introduction Digital Age? Paperless Digital Environment Soft Material Information Explosion E-Culture [email_address]

Digital Age?

Paperless

Digital Environment

Soft Material

Information Explosion

E-Culture

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Search Starting Point Oblinger (2007): 2% of college students used the library web site as the starting point for research 67% learn about electronic resources from their friends. Perceptions of libraries and information resources (2005): Search Engine – 84% E-mail – 6% [email_address]

Oblinger (2007):

2% of college students used the library web site as the starting point for research

67% learn about electronic resources from their friends.

Perceptions of libraries and information resources (2005):

Search Engine – 84%

E-mail – 6%

Information Explosion [email_address] According to a study conducted in 2000: Surface Web: 19 Terabytes Deep Web: 7500 Terabytes

Opportunities Web 2.0 Philosophy Wikis, Blogs, Forums, Social Networking, Tags, Aggregators, IM, Twitter Library 2.0 Philosophy Tags Users input Use of Web 2.0 tools for library services [email_address]

Web 2.0

Philosophy

Wikis, Blogs, Forums, Social Networking, Tags, Aggregators, IM, Twitter

Library 2.0

Philosophy

Tags

Users input

Use of Web 2.0 tools for library services

Library  User Bond [email_address]

Library  User Bond [email_address]

Library  User Bond [email_address]

Opportunities VS Challenges [email_address] Opportunity Skill Set/ Prerequisites CMS (Joomla, Drupal) Domain Storage LAMP, Web-publishing ILS (Koha) Linux Apache MySQL Perl HTML/XML DLS (Greenstone) Apache Perl HTML/XML OCR/Metadata

Cont… [email_address] Opportunity Skill Set/ Prerequisites RSS A little WWW knowledge Twitter -do- Forums/ Bulletin Board A little knowledge of HTML, Web-Publishing, www, etc BLOGS A little WWW knowledge Instant Messaging (IM) Social Networking HTML Web-Publishing Graphics

Content Management Systems (CMS) [email_address]

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RSS - Real Simple Syndication [email_address] Brings contents to you Content available as new feeds

Brings contents to you

Content available as new feeds

RSS Readers [email_address]

Twitter Small text tweets Quickest way to communicate messages Libraries on twitter: LOC British Library etc [email_address]

Small text tweets

Quickest way to

communicate messages

Libraries on twitter:

LOC

British Library

etc

Forums / Bulletin Boards Group Discussions Post Reply Best way to interact with users Topics Sub-topics Requests Book Request Article Request [email_address]

Group Discussions

Post Reply

Best way to interact with users

Topics

Sub-topics

Requests

Book Request

Article Request

Blogs Dated entries in chronological order Ideas Sharing Discussions / Comments Informal Articles Instant Web Publishing Blogging Sites WordPress Blogger / Blogspot [email_address]

Dated entries in chronological order

Ideas Sharing

Discussions / Comments

Informal Articles

Instant Web Publishing

Blogging Sites

WordPress

Blogger / Blogspot

IM - Instant Messaging Live Messenger Yahoo Messenger ICQ Google Talk AOL Messenger Ask a Librarian [email_address]

Live Messenger

Yahoo Messenger

ICQ

Google Talk

AOL Messenger

Ask a Librarian

Social Networking Students in academic environments use social networks to connect with their friends and colleagues. A Librarian’s presence on a students’ social tool will increase the visibility of library resources Social Networks: Facebook MySpace [email_address]

Students in academic environments use social networks to connect with their friends and colleagues.

A Librarian’s presence on a students’ social tool will increase the visibility of library resources

Social Networks:

Facebook

MySpace

Social Networking (cont) FB Pages Groups Links Surveys/Polls [email_address]

FB Pages

Groups

Links

Surveys/Polls

Bookmarking / Tags Social Bookmarking services allow users to tag, save, manage and share web pages Del.icio.us (delicious.com) Diigo Information rich resources can be shared among faculty and students. Users can categorize resources using their own tagging system. [email_address]

Social Bookmarking services allow users to tag, save, manage and share web pages

Del.icio.us (delicious.com)

Diigo

Information rich resources can be shared among faculty and students.

Users can categorize resources using their own tagging system.

Wikis Philosophy Evil Vs Good Collaboration Examples Wikipedia - 2979000+ articles Wiktionary [email_address]

Philosophy

Evil Vs Good

Collaboration

Examples

Wikipedia - 2979000+ articles

Wiktionary

References taspd.edublogs.org geocities.com/elaw007/ip_intro_01.html guardian.co.uk usatoday.com trainfortopdollar.com businessblackbeltnetwork.ning.com astech.library.cornell.edu dlib.org/dlib/october00/lombardi/10lombardi.html [email_address]

taspd.edublogs.org

geocities.com/elaw007/ip_intro_01.html

guardian.co.uk

usatoday.com

trainfortopdollar.com

businessblackbeltnetwork.ning.com

astech.library.cornell.edu

dlib.org/dlib/october00/lombardi/10lombardi.html

Q/A Q/A Thanks [email_address]

Q/A

Thanks