NAG2007

Slide 1: Web 2.0 It's Okay to Play! Dave Pattern, Library Systems Manager University of Huddersfield d.c.pattern@hud.ac.uk Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 1

Slide 2: Workshop menu • Web 2.0 & Library 2.0 • Blogs • RSS feeds • Tagging, folksonomies and mashups – LibraryThing and Flickr • Wikis • Social networking – Facebook and ning.com • Social bookmarking Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 2

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Slide 4: Question time! • Do you regularly use a mobile phone? http://www.flickr.com/photos/ari/362924278/ Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 4

Slide 5: Question time! • do U snd txt msgz? http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessicamills/231072148/ Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 5

Slide 6: Question time! • Do have broadband internet access at home? http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacksonlee/6222523/ Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 6

Slide 7: Question time! • Do you have wireless internet access at home? http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/113353477/ Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 7

Slide 8: Question time! • Do you regularly use your home PC or laptop for more than an hour each evening? http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardholden/340601444/ Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 8

Slide 9: Question time! • Do you regularly use your home PC or laptop for 2 or 3 hours an evening? http://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronjacobs/64368770/ Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 9

Slide 10: Question time! • Do have your own weblog / blog? http://www.blogger.com Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 10

Slide 11: Question time! • Do you regularly read other peoples weblogs and/or contribute to other weblogs? http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001325.html Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 11

Slide 12: Question time! • Do you use Wikipedia? http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessicamills/231072148/ Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 12

Slide 13: Question time! • Have you ever edited a page on Wikipedia? http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessicamills/231072148/ Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 13

Slide 14: Question time! • Do you regularly use instant messaging or online chat? – e.g. AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN, gTalk, Jabber, ICQ, Meebo, etc http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch/en-GB/ Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 14

Slide 15: Question time! • Do you use VOIP? – e.g. Skype http://www.skype.com Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 15

Slide 16: Question time! • Do you have a games console at home? http://www.flickr.com/photos/jstar/336785888/ Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 16

Slide 17: Question time! • Do you play games online and/or visit virtual worlds – e.g. World of Warcraft, Second Life, etc? http://www.flickr.com/photos/christajoy42/354580876/ Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 17

Slide 18: Question time! • Do you have your own MP3 player? http://www.flickr.com/photos/nez/268673268/ Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 18

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Slide 20: Web 1.0 Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 20

Slide 21: Web 1.0 • Slow access speeds (e.g. dial-up modem) • Limited availability • Static web pages • Little interactivity • Mostly text …lots and lots of text …on a grey background! • Web sites that would only work with one type of web browser • The “Read Only Web” Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 21

Slide 22: Web 2.0 • Fast access speeds (e.g. broadband) • Wide availability (e.g. wireless) • Dynamic web pages • High interactivity • Lots of multimedia • Web sites that work on many devices (e.g. PCs, mobile phones, etc) • The “Read/Write Web” Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 22

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Slide 24: Some Web 2.0 concepts • Applications delivered via a web browser • Exploiting and (sometimes freely) sharing data • User participation, empowerment, and collaboration • Social networking • Communities of interest • Tagging and folksonomies • Mashups and other unintended uses Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 24

Slide 25: Two Point “Oh” • Evolutionary rather than revolutionary Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 25

Slide 26: Two Point “Ho-ho-ho” Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 26

Slide 27: Some facts and figures • nearly 1 billion images on Flickr • 200+ million MySpace accounts • 163+ million edits on Wikipedia • 70+ million weblogs tracked by Technorati • 34+ million Facebook accounts • 16+ million books on LibraryThing • 5+ million editors on Wikipedia • 2 million Wikipedia articles Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 27

Slide 28: The “Network Effect” Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 28

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Slide 30: So, who’s doing all this stuff? Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 30

Slide 31: University of Illinois Survey (2006) • “College Students' Internet Uses” – 1,300 respondents – 91% get information for school work online – 83% access the Internet several times a day – 78% use Facebook and 51% use MySpace – 38% use Wikipedia – 33% create content for blogs / web journals – 1.7% don’t know what a search engine is – 0.2% don’t know what instant messaging is http://results.webuse.org/uic06/ Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 31

Slide 32: US Internet User Demographics • Survey of 2,373 US adults (Dec 2006) • 70% of adults use the internet – 83% of 18-29 year olds – 82% of 30-40 year olds – 70% of 50-64 year olds – 33% of 65+ year olds http://www.pewinternet.org/trends/User_Demo_1.11.07.htm Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 32

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Slide 34: Library 2.0 • “...a loosely defined model for a modernized form of library service that reflects a transition within the library world in the way that services are delivered to users. This includes online services such as the use of OPAC systems and an increased flow of information from the user back to the library.” – Wikipedia article for “Library 2.0” Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 34

Slide 35: Library 2.0 • Use of “2.0” technologies (blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, etc) • Actively involve users in service developments • User centric developments & initiatives • Delivering services directly to users • Libraries without walls (“The Third Place”) • The “Read/Write Library” Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 35

Slide 36: Library 2.0 • Challenges us to: – be more flexible – embrace change – be more willing to take risks – give library staff the opportunity to play and experiment – go to where our users are, rather than force them to come to us – give our users opportunities to contribute Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 36

Slide 37: Blogs and blogging • A blog (a portmanteau of “web log”) is a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. – Wikipedia Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 37

Slide 38: Blogs types and libraries • Institution blogs – usually formal – usually publicity and news • Personal blogs (librarians & library staff) – around 25% blog anonymously – online diary – community and topical discussion – advocacy – personal development Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 38

Slide 39: Library blogs • University of Glamorgan, LRC Blog • New York Institute of Technology Library Blog • Ann Arbor District Library • Ohio University Libraries News • Cambridge Libraries Blog (Canada) • Thomas Ford Memorial Library • Delany Library News University of Worcester ILS Matters • Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 39

Slide 40: Internal library blogs • BarnardRefDesk • Bibliographic Services, McMaster University Lib • Grapevine, University of Huddersfield Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 40

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Slide 45: Library staff blogs • Moira Bent, Moira's Info Lit Blog • David Bigwood, Catalogablog • Tom Roper's Weblog • Metalibrarian • David Lee King • Annoyed Librarian • Peter Godwin Jane Secker • • Pete Smith, Library Too Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 45

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Slide 49: Starting your own blog • Who is your target audience? • Do you want to host it yourself or use an externally hosted option? – how approachable is your IT Dept? • Will it be formal or informal? • Comment moderation? Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 49

Slide 50: Doing it yourself • You’ll need your own web server – typically running MySQL and PHP • More control over “look & feel” • Popular blog software (Open Source) – WordPress – Textpattern – Drupal • Popular blog software (Commercial) – Movable Type Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 50

Slide 51: Externally hosted options • Usually free, although there might be adverts • Less control over “look & feel” – WordPress – LiveJournal – MySpace – TypePad – Blogger Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 51

Slide 52: Finding blogs • Look at the blogrolls on your fave blogs • General blog search engines… – Technorati – Google Blog Search • …or just Library blogs… – LibWorm – LISZEN – HotStuff (Huddersfield) Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 52

Slide 53: Micro-blogging • Micro-blogging is a form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates (usually less than 200 characters) and publish them … These messages can be submitted by a variety of means, including text messaging, instant messaging, email, MP3 or the web. – Wikipedia Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 53

Slide 54: Micro-blogging • Twitter: – Casa Grande Library – Nebraska Library Commission, reference questions – University of Illinois, UGL alerts – “A Guide to Twitter in Libraries” – “Twitter Explained for Librarians, or 10 ways to use Twitte ” Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 54

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Slide 56: RSS feeds • RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts … RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with their favourite web sites in an automated manner that's easier than checking them manually. – Wikipedia Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 56

Slide 57: RSS feeds • Keep up with what’s new! • RSS feeds are designed to be read by a computer rather than by a human – e.g. RSS aggregator software • Many websites can also display RSS feeds – Bloglines – iGoogle and Google Reader – MyYahoo Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 57

Slide 58: Some general RSS feeds • BBC News • Met Office • BBC Weather Centre • Radio 4, Today • National Library for Health • Highways Agency • 10 Downing Street • UK National Newspaper RSS Feeds Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 58

Slide 59: Library RSS feeds • The Bookseller • “EBSCO Finally Gets RSS Right” • New acquisitions… – College of New Jersey – University of Kent – St. John's College Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 59

Slide 60: Tagging and folksonomies • A tag is a (relevant) keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information (e.g. a picture, article, or video clip), thus describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification of information – Wikipedia Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 60

Slide 61: Tagging and folksonomies • A folksonomy is the practice and method of collaborative categorization using freely-chosen keywords called tags … A combination of the words “folk” (or “folks”) and “taxonomy”. – Wikipedia Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 61

Slide 62: Tagging in practise • Flickr – photograph sharing website – mashups… • flickrvision, retrievr, Colr Pickr, Flickr Suduko • LibraryThing – personal book collections – LibraryThing for Libraries – e.g. • Danbury Library • Randolph County Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 62

Slide 63: Web services and mashups • FRBR services: – OCLC xISBN – LibraryThing thingISBN • Amazon – Amazon Web Services (reviews, covers, etc) • Example mashups: – Harry Potter (xISBN + Amazon) – amaztype (Amazon) – dartmaps (Google Maps) Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 63

Slide 64: Wikis • A wiki is a collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it ... A wiki is essentially a database for creating, browsing and searching information. – Wikipedia Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 64

Slide 65: Library wikis • University of Connecticut Libraries' Staff • Stevens County Rural Library District • Huddersfield, Electronic Resources • Huddersfield, Info Desk • University of South Carolina Aiken Library • Ohio University Libraries Biz Wiki • Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 65

Slide 66: Setting up a wiki • Hosting it yourself – MediaWiki (PHP + MySQL) – TWiki (Perl) – PmWiki (PHP) Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 66

Slide 67: Setting up a wiki • Externally hosted – usually with adverts – pbwiki – Wikispaces • Even more options at… – WikiMatrix Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 67

Slide 68: Social networking • Communities of common interest – hobbies, work, organisations, music, etc • Users… – create profiles – add friends – join groups – discover new “stuff” Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 68

Slide 69: Social networking • Facebook • library20.ning.com • MySpace Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 69

Slide 70: Social bookmarking • Social bookmarking is a way for internet users to store, classify, share and search Internet bookmarks. Other users with similar interests can view the links by topic, category, tags, or even randomly. – Wikipedia Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 70

Slide 71: Social bookmarking • del.icio.us • Connotea Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 71

Slide 72: Thank you! Any questions? Sep/2007 National Acquisitions Group 72