Social Tools in Libraries Trends and Tips for Today’s Cindi Trainor Library Technology & Data Services Eastern Kentucky University Libraries cindiann@gmail.com | IM: cinditrainor Photo by tashland (and Tomorrow’s) Library

Trends Tools Tips Social Tools in Libraries: Image by Nils Geylan http://tinyurl.com/28qugl

Housekeeping

Trends Photo by garyturner: http://www.flickr.com/photos/garyturner/485027359/

Practice Radical Transparency Photo by KAALpurush http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaalpurush/2238090017/

The Transparent Library http://tinyurl.com/2fsdvn “ The fact that we are building collections and creating services for our users means we should be letting these folks know what we are doing and how we are spending their money. If you are doing it well, you can tell your users a mighty fine story of what benefits and value the library offers. If you are afraid to tell them, you have a problem.” -- Michael Stephens ALA TechSource blog 11/30/2006

Does this happen in your library? Flickr photo by Michael Sauers http://tinyurl.com/358z32

Does this happen in your library? http://headrush.typepad. com/creating_passionate_users/

We are human

We make miskates Photo by --azure-- http://www.flickr.com/photos/-azure-/2145478463/

We make miskates misstakes

We make mis-- Sometimes we mess up!

What does this mean for you?

Photo by gilfray http://tinyurl.com/2d4hle

C H A N G E Photo by Jonny http://tinyurl.com/24rwlh

This *can* happen in your library

This *can* happen in your library photo posted to Tame the Web http://tinyurl.com/ypnfkj

“ Web 2.0”

(sssh! It’s just “the web”) Web 2.0

O’Reilly’s Vision The web as platform Harnessing collective intelligence Blogs and the Wisdom of Crowds RSS = “the live web” Architecture of Participation The free data movement End of the software release cycle Lightweight programming models Software above the level of a single device

How?

How? You ask? (It doesn’t have to be the captain saying “Make it so,” but it sure helps.) “ Make it so!”

Web Pages

Personal pages 1.0

Personal pages 2.0

Personal pages 2.0

Digital Images

Digital Pictures Online 1.0

Digital images online 2.0

Digital Pictures Online 2.0

What’s next in sharing photos online

Collaboration

Collaboration 1.0

Collaboration 2.0

Collaboration 2.0

Collaboration 2.0

Bookmarks (the web kind, not the paper kind)

Website bookmarks 1.0

http://toolbar.google.com http://www.google.com/bookmarks/

Website bookmarks 2.0

Using tags and online bookmarks to organize resources http://tinyurl.com/3dgzab

Instant Messaging

Embedding IM librarians wherever we can http://tinyurl.com/28ghbv

Social Networking

Facebook Applications

things you can do now photo by pshutterbug http://tinyurl.com/2c26na

Learn More

Experiment

Establish an emerging technologies group

Learning 2.0 EKU’s Learning 2.0 Team

Watch for trends

Become an expert photo by !borghetti http://tinyurl.com/ywud92

Many thanks to Steve Lawson “it’s just the web” Michael Stephens “Hyperlinked Library” Michael Casey & Michael Stephens, “The Transparent Library” ( Library Journal ) http://www.flickr.com/photos/gi/304120801/

Steve Lawson “it’s just the web”

Michael Stephens “Hyperlinked Library”

Michael Casey & Michael Stephens, “The Transparent Library” ( Library Journal )

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