Government Documents 2.0 Web 2.0 Initiatives for Depository Library Websites Rebecca Blakeley, MLIS

Web 2.0 = It’s all about YOU

We are in Web 3.0 Beta Mode

What is Government 2.0? Access Transparency Accountability Participatory Democracy It’s not utopia yet…problems with: Digital Authentication and archiving Digital Divide

Access

Transparency

Accountability

Participatory

Democracy

It’s not utopia yet…problems with:

Digital Authentication and archiving

Digital Divide

Examples of Government 2.0 DIPNOTE : U.S. Dept of State blog Govt. agencies using Twitter GovGab : GSA’s U.S. Govt. Blog

DIPNOTE : U.S. Dept of State blog

Govt. agencies using Twitter

GovGab : GSA’s U.S. Govt. Blog

What is Gov Docs 2.0? Using social technologies to expand depository library services. Social Bookmarking RSS Another way to bring “documents to the people”! social software wikis IM blogs social networking photo sharing

Using social technologies to expand depository library services.

Social Bookmarking

RSS

Another way to bring “documents to the people”!

Gov Doc Group on Library 2.0 Ning Network http:// www.ning.com

http:// www.ning.com

Gov Doc 2.0 @ the McNeese Federal Depository Library Social bookmarking (website tags) Blog/RSS Gov Guides Wiki And more! McNeese Gov Doc Dept Homepage http:// library.mcneese.edu/depts/docs/index.htm Gov Docs on the Bayou Blog http:// msugovdocs.blogspot.com /

Social bookmarking (website tags)

Blog/RSS

Gov Guides Wiki

And more!

McNeese Gov Doc Dept Homepage

http:// library.mcneese.edu/depts/docs/index.htm

Gov Docs on the Bayou Blog

http:// msugovdocs.blogspot.com /

Google Books McNeese’s Virtual Gov Doc Library Focus on local Louisiana docs Antique, historical, rare docs RSS Feed and Subject Tags

McNeese’s Virtual Gov Doc Library

Focus on local Louisiana docs

Antique, historical, rare docs

RSS Feed and Subject Tags

Google Custom Search Engines Tailored search using Google's technology Restricts search results based on websites or web domains you specify Assures quality in websites searched Ex. only peer-reviewed or .gov Narrows search to a subset of the Internet that you choose. Ex. field specific Custom Search Engines in Action McNeese Depository’s CSEs

Tailored search using Google's technology

Restricts search results based on websites or web domains you specify

Assures quality in websites searched

Ex. only peer-reviewed or .gov

Narrows search to a subset of the Internet that you choose.

Ex. field specific

Custom Search Engines in Action

McNeese Depository’s CSEs

OpenCongress and Govtrack http:// www.opencongress.org http:// www.govtrack.us Perfect examples of Web 2.0 technology furthering transparency in government!

http:// www.opencongress.org

http:// www.govtrack.us

Perfect examples of Web 2.0 technology furthering transparency in government!

Fun With Flickr & YouTube Let’s Cook With Gov Docs…

Let’s Cook With Gov Docs…

How the heck do you find time for this? Remember this mantra: Just try it! Make some time. Keep it simple & easy: 15-30 minutes a day (careful…it’s easy to spend hours on these fun tools!) Try one new tool a day for a week and then pick the ones you enjoy working with the most and/or you think your patrons will use.

Remember this mantra:

Just try it! Make some time.

Keep it simple & easy:

15-30 minutes a day (careful…it’s easy to spend hours on these fun tools!)

Try one new tool a day for a week and then pick the ones you enjoy working with the most and/or you think your patrons will use.

Helpful Guides

Why should I make time for all this? To get our knowledge, helpfulness, and information expertise out there where the users are. Get people to think of us as the “go to” resource for their government info needs. Make us findable in an online environment Expanding the core mission of depository libraries: providing access and serving our users.

To get our knowledge, helpfulness, and information expertise out there where the users are.

Get people to think of us as the “go to” resource for their government info needs.

Make us findable in an online environment

Expanding the core mission of depository libraries: providing access and serving our users.

And now…your moment of zen This is more than play and more than about what we can do. It’s also about what we should do… ~Woody Evans, “Embryonic Web 3.0” article in Jan. 2008 issue of Searcher magazine

This is more than play and more than about what we can do. It’s also about what we should do…

~Woody Evans, “Embryonic Web 3.0” article in Jan. 2008 issue of Searcher magazine

For more info… My Blog and Wiki: http://msugovdocs.blogspot.com http://msugovdocsdept.pbwiki.com Contact Me! [email_address] 337-475-5740

My Blog and Wiki:

http://msugovdocs.blogspot.com

http://msugovdocsdept.pbwiki.com

Contact Me!

[email_address]

337-475-5740