RRLC 2007 - Library 2.0 Technologies

Library 2.0 Technologies Sara Greenleaf Hobart & William Smith Colleges November 14, 2007

The Social Web also known as “Web 2.0”

Disclaimer 1.

I am not a programmer.

Disclaimer 2.

Time management during presentations is not my strength.

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What is Web 2.0? “ The new Web is a very different thing. It’s a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it’s really a revolution.” --Time Dec. 25, 2006 / Jan. 1, 2007

Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us Video by Michael Wesch, Kansas State University

Characteristics of Web 2.0

Participatory

Expansive

User-contributed

User-controlled?

Social Implication

Self-presentation

Privacy

Are we redefining the concept of “friend”?

Agenda

Blogs & RSS feeds

Photo sharing

Video sharing

Social bookmarking and tagging

Social networks

Portals

Identity

Blogs

Powered by RSS

Chronological entry

Text, images, audio, and video media

Use of comments

Readers = “push technology”

Life and Experience: The Most Popular Topic Among Bloggers

37% - “My Life and Experiences”

11% - Politics and Government

7% - Entertainment

6% - Sports

5% - General News and Current Events

5% - Business

4% - Technology

2% - Religion, Spirituality, or Faith

1% - Specific Hobby or Health Problem

Source: “Bloggers: A Portrait of America’s New Storytellers.” Pew Internet & American Life Project, July 19, 2006. Online. Accessed: 25 May 2007. http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/186/report_display.asp

E. H. Butler Library Blog http:// askehbl.wordpress.com

The Power of Comments http:// casapinka.typepad.com /

The Power of Comments

Keeping Up with Blog Content

Readers

Google Reader

Bloglines

Browsers

Firefox

Internet Explorer 7

Safari (Mac)

What’s “Reader-able”?

“Blogosphere”

Authoring Blogs

Free blog authoring tools

Blogger (Google)

www. blogger .com

WordPress

wordpress.org

Blog Sandbox

For practice blogging:

http://sarasandbox.blogspot.com

Want an invitation to practice/contribute?

I need: your email address

You’ll need: a Google account

Blog Sandbox

Photo Sharing

Flickr

Online photo management and sharing

Users upload photos to profiles

Includes options for:

Organization and sorting

Description

Sharing

Comments

Tags and notes

Getting Ourselves Out There Librarian Trading Card By Michael Stephens, Oct. 8, 20007 http:// www.flickr.com/groups/librariancards /

Using Flickr in Libraries

Murder by the Book @ APL http://www.flickr.com/photos/theloudlibrarian/sets/1282646

Colorado College, Tutt Library http://www.flickr.com/photos/tuttlibrary/122698090

Storytime Van http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelcasey/34936045

“ Dare to Read” Book Displays http://jclreaderscorner.blogspot.com/2005/10/dare-to-read-shawnee-library-book.html

New Jersey Library Association, Conference 2006 http://www.flickr.com/photos/njla/sets/72057594129281429

Anatomy of Flickr

Video Sharing

What is YouTube?

“YouTube is an online video streaming service that allows anyone to view and share videos that have been uploaded by our members.”

—YouTube Help.

YouTube Timeline

Dec. 2005 – launch

June 2006 – NBC partners with YouTube to promote Fall 2006 shows

July 2006 – 1 st copyright lawsuit

Oct. 2006 – Google acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion

The Impact of YouTube

Media

Broad reach for the purpose of making a statement

Consumer content

Agreements in place with networks and groups

Authorized trailers, promotions

Educational content

Tutorials, how-to’s

Public opinion

2008 elections

Content on YouTube http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =7Ud92ZLccrY

Campaign 2008 http:// www.youtube.com/republicandebate

Libraries and YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwCUtpbUWgk

(The L-Team / by Williams College)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMSk5zFVH4s

(Tasty Choices @ Your Library / McCracken County Public Library)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o3oAQnB60c

(Gett Down with Your Funky Shelf / Gettysburg College)

http://libraries.mit.edu/tutorials/video/index.html

(MIT Libraries Video Tutorials)

+ YouTube = ?

Source: The New York Times . Sept. 24, 2007.

Copyright (Re)Considered

A Fair(y) Use Tale http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/documentary-film-program/film/a-fair-y-use-tale

Creative Commons Share Alike No Derivative Works Noncommercial Attribution

Social Bookmarking and Tagging del.icio.us

Social Bookmarking

Services which allow users to

Store or mark a Web site online (accessible anywhere)

Assign tags (or keywords) to that site

Add notes or a review about the site

See other people who have identified the same site

View sites/links of others with similar interests

Tagging

Introduces a human element to Internet resource retrieval

Allows people to organize resources in ways that are meaningful to them

Tagging

Keywords or phrases assigned

Natural language

Personal context and meaning

Syntax according to site or resource

User-developed innovative methods and complex structures

Tagging

Personal

Natural language

On-demand

As-needed

Inaccurate

Inconsistent

Variants for the same term or phrase

Harry Potter

Harrypotter

HarryPotter!

hp

del.icio.us

Integrating del.icio.us

For more information, read “What’s This?”

Link to del.icio.us

del.icio.us Tag Cloud http:// del.icio.us /tag/

del.icio.us User Experience http:// del.icio.us/sgreenleaf

A Collective Consciousness?

“ Because social bookmarking reflects the values of the community of users, there is a risk of presenting a skewed view of the value of any particular topic.”

--Cyprien Lomas

Educause Learning Initiative

What might this tag cloud indicate about its creator?

Libraries and del.icio.us

Delany Library

Secondary school in Australia

Uses del.icio.us for web resources

http://www.delanylibrary.com/

http://del.icio.us/delany_library

Thunder Bay Public Library

del.icio.us tags rolled onto Web site

http://www.tbpl.ca/internal.asp?id=283&cid=4548

http://del. icio .us/TBPL

Libraries and del.icio.us

MIT Libraries

Uses RSS to feed their Virtual Reference Collection from del.icio.us

http://libraries.mit.edu/help/virtualref/

http://libraries.mit.edu/help/virtualref/cloud.html

http://del.icio.us/virtualref

MIT Libraries’ Betas

http://libraries.mit.edu/help/betas/

Libraries and Tagging Rethlefsen, Melissa. Tags Help Make Libraries Del.icio.us: Social bookmarking and tagging boost participation. Library Journal . Sept. 15, 2007. Available online: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6476403.html

Social Bookmarking Services

Furl – www.furl.net

Magnolia – ma.gnolia.com

Google Bookmarks – www.google.com/bookmarks

Connotea – www.connotea.org

Case Study LibraryThing (For Libraries)

LibraryThing

LibraryThing

http://www.librarything.com

A Very Short Introduction to LibraryThing

http://www.librarything.com/quickstart.php

Danbury Public Library

http://cat.danburylibrary.org

Bowdoin College

http://library.bowdoin.edu/opac/

Social Networks

Online communities

Shared interests and activities

Interest in interacting with others

Web-based

Variety of interaction options:

Chat/Messaging

Video

Blogging

Groups

Statistics on Social Networks

Market Share (Feb. 2007)

MySpace – 80.74%

Facebook – 10.32%

Bebo – 1.18%

BlackPlanet.com – 0.88%

…

Yahoo! 360 – 0.72%

…

Live Journal – 0.49%

…

20 . myYearbook – 0.11%

Teens and Social Networking

Assertions on the popularity of social networks:

Individuating and being unsupervised in a scheduled and structured society.

Virtual hangouts for socialization and meeting other teens with similar interests

Expression through page customization

Quantification (both exaggeration and minimization) of social status

Convenience

But what about privacy?

Among teens with online profiles, 66% limit their access to their profile in some way.

Can teens be identified from their profiles?

23% say it would be very easy

40% say it would be hard, but could be done

36% say it would be very difficult

1 in 3 online teens have been contacted by a stranger

65% of those teens ignored or deleted the contact

What’s a profile? http:// www.facebook.com

Application Integration

Portals

iGoogle http:// www.igoogle.com

net vibes http:// www.netvibes.com

Hype? “ Sure, it’s a mistake to romanticize this any more than is strictly necessary. Web 2.0 harnesses the stupidity of crowds as well as its wisdom. Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.” --Time Dec. 25, 2006 / Jan. 1, 2007

Thank you! Questions?