Web Technologies for Libraries

Web technologies for libraries, St. Petersburg 2009 Karen Buset, Research Librarian, Medical Library ,UBiT, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Guus van den Brekel, Medical Information Specialist, Central Medical Library, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) Transfer of knowledge VIII: Providing and managing evidence based health information, June 16-18, 2009 Continuing education courses and workshop for medical librarians in St. Petersburg

Programm 09:00 - 10:00 Introduction on Web 2.0 10:00 - 10:15 break 10:15 - 11:15 Hands-on session 1: Blogs & RSS & Medical RSS 11:15 - 11:30 break 11:30 - 12:45 Hands-on session 2: Personal Startpages & Social Networks & Toolbar 12:45 - 13:00 Summary

Introduction to Web 2.0

What is Web 2.0 & Library 2.0?

It is all about ..

People

Communication

Interaction

Sharing

Connection

Discovering

Creating

But most of all, about

People

Examples of Web 2.0

Flickr

YouTube

Slideshare

Amazon

See Top100 Web 2.0 Apps 2008 http:// www.webware.com/html/ww/100/2008/winners.html

Everybody connected & in contact with eachother & everything

Online collaboration

Seeing & Sharing

The User chooses & creates his own content and format

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 for Libraries…

User-centricity

Technology-savy environment

Reaching of the patrons long-tail

Content for more than one device

Component based software, not monolithic ILS

Constant change

Use of web 2.0 apps and services

Open standards

Visibility

Findability

Searchability

Accessibility

Flexibility

Examples of Library 2.0

Peace Palace Library, The Hague http://ppl.nl

http://www.lib.umich.edu/hsl/beta/

Web 2.0 & Dependency?

Always keep in mind to look and develop “applied use” in your organization and library community

For individuals, groups, communities, networks and overall

Embed and integrate in workflow

Dependency of software

Open standards

Power to the Users (and Librarians…)

Web 2.0 technologies offer everybody the power and tools to create and mash-up information to their needs

Opportunities practically INVITE users to engage

They are doing it. We should join them!

23 Things

23 Things is an online learning program for web 2.0 about emerging technologies on the web, that is: New (or newish) web tools

The original Learning 2.0 site was created to support PLCMC's Learning 2.0 program ( Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County)

The design of the online program was completely built on Web 2.0 technologies that are freely available on the Internet: Blogger, Flickr, YouTube

Libraries everywhere create their own 23 things

Web 2.0 tools

Blog

RSS

Personal start page

Social Networks

Twitter

Toolbars

Social bookmarking

Photos - Discover Flickr

Video – YouTube

LibraryThing

Instant messaging

Blog

A frequent, chronological, and personalized publication of web content

Advantage of blogs

No need to know html coding

No need to find server space

Usually free

Allow interactivity and sharing

Disadvantage of blogs

Too many – hard to select ;-)

Takes time to read

Searching blogs

Technorati http://technorati.com /

Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, Indexes over 112 million weblogs

http://blogsearch.google.com /

Blogs for Medical Libraries & Librarians Overview of Medical Lib Blogs David Rothman: http://davidrothman.net Krafty: http://kraftylibrarian.com Patricia F. Anderson: http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/etechlib

Medical library of Latvia: http://lmbib.blogspot.com /

RSS

RSS = “Really Simple Syndication”

is an XML file format for delivering content on the web

Subscribe to RSS feed and wait for fresh content to come to you!

Read info anywhere, always, at all times

Re-Use of Information & new services

Alerts

Find the RSS-feeds?

Blogs

RSS feeds let readers know when a blog has been updated

Newspapers and journals

New articles and research are published, and users are alerted via the feed.

Press releases and announcements

News from your organization, conferencec /

Current awareness

News and article updates from databases and journals

PubMed searches

Reading RSS

Desktop

Applications that requires installation on a computer.

Web-based

Online aggregators

Create account to access

Bloglines and Google Reader

Browser- and email client-based browsers

subscribe to and read RSS feeds right in the browser

Firefox and Internet Explorer 7

Mobile?

Use for or by Medical Libraries TicTOCS: http://www.tictocs.ac.uk FeedNavigator: http://www.terkko.helsinki.fi/feednavigator RSS4medics: http://rss4medics.com MedWorm: http://medworm.com

Personal start page

By using a personal start page you can collect and maintain all information that is important for you on your own page

Examples of content:

Email

news from journals and blogs

alerts

feeds from database searches

Providers

Netvibes, iGoogle, Pagesflakes

Personal Start pages: Netvibes

Step by step create your Netvibes account and practice http://www.netvibes.com

Demo: http://www.slideshare.net/wondersteen/introduction-netvibes-presentation

Tour: http://ginger.netvibes.com/overview.php

Public page/Universe http:// www.netvibes.com/nbamhi

Alternative: iGoogle, Pageflakes, Protopage:

http://iGoogle.com

From Personal Start Page to Published “Universe”

Online Published Selection: “Universe”

Sharing, collaboration, cooperation, education & training

Creaye a Library “Toolbox”: “Take-Away & Tailor-made”

www.netvibes.com/cmb

www.netvibes.com/scharr

Social networks

” a social utility that connects you with the people around you”

VKontakte

most used network in Russia

Facebook

most popular with college and university students

LinkedIn

business-oriented social networking site, mainly used for and by professionals

Ning

Private social network

Toolbars

Browser Add-ons or plugins can be very useful to make the library, it’s resources and services more

Visible, Accessible,Searchable and Findable

A personal toolbar:

http:// toolbar.google.com /

www.conduit.com or

http://libx.org/

Demo Russian Medlibs Toolbar

http://russianmedlibs.ourtoolbar.com

Make your own Toolbar (with Conduit)

Add Search toevoegen

Add Rss toevoegen

Add Gadgets

Create Library Toolbar

Social bookmarking

Tagging is an open and informal method of categorizing that allows users to associate keywords with online content

Internet users can store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.

Examples:

Del.icio.us : http:// delicious.com

LibraryThing : http:// www.librarything.com/

Photos and Videos

Photo sharing on the web

social network for sharing photos

Flickr

use keyword tags

Upload and share videos on the web

YouTube

social network for sharing videos

upload your own video content

embed clips into your own sites

Instant messaging (IM)

Instant messaging provides users the ability to communicate quickly in real time.

One of the advantages of using IM instead of email is that you know if the person you want to talk with is available.

To use IM you must have an account

Google Talk

MSN

Use Web 2.0!

Use your blog as a diary, write about your discoveries and experiences with web 2.0-tools

Subscribe to RSS from each others blogs, to share knowledge

Use social networks like VKontakte and Ning to keep in touch

We must be familiar with the new technologies so that we can offer our users a better library

Mindset for Librarian & libraries 1/2

“ Everything will keep changing”

“ Anything can happen”

User chooses and creates

It’s no threat, but an additional, supplementary

If the user can do it himself, the library should have done it before, as a service

Mindset for Librarian & libraries 2/2

Explore, Play and Teach Yourself

But also Teach Your Staff and Users: WEB-LITERACY

Play a Leading Role within your Organization as Experts in Web-Literacy

Workshop

Links Karen Buset, Research Librarian, Medical Library,UBiT, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Guus van den Brekel, Medical Information Specialist, Central Medical Library, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) Transfer of knowledge VIII: Providing and managing evidence based health information, June 16-18, 2009 Continuing education courses and workshop for medical librarians in St. Petersburg