Five Social Software Sites that libraries shouldn't ignore

Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Five Social Software Sites That libraries shouldn’t ignore Kathryn Greenhill November 2007 Slides at: LibrariansMatter.com Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Outline

Why social software ?

What is social software?

Five content sharing sites

The “so what?”

Usage

Similar sites

Social elements of content sharing sites

Examples of library use

Checklist for action

Why social software and libraries ? Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

We connect people with information Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Tools to do this are evolving Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Libraries must evolve with the tools

Use it in your job

Content is there

Bypass – convenience trumps quality

Improve our online presence

What is social software ? Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

It allows people to communicate, collaborate, and build community online Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

It can be syndicated, shared, reused,or remixed, or it facilitates syndication Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

It lets people learn easily from and capitalize on the behavior or knowledge of others. Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Includes

Blogs

Wikis

Forums

Twitter

Second Life

Google documents

Mashups

Massive content sharing sites

Imagine …

Online Library

anyone add to

… thousands did…

… organised it…

… started

conversations.

Storage and retrieval via Social elements not controlled vocabulary Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Social does not mean trivial Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Global traffic rank: 3

Australian traffic rank: 6 Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Facebook 31% del.icio.us 3% Facebook 33% del.icio.us 30% Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

YouTube 73% YouTube 72% Flickr 11% Flickr 49% Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Key social elements Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Profiles Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Subscribing Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Friends / contacts Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Internal messages Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Groups Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Tagging Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Rating Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Favouriting Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Commenting Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Related items Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Responses Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Remixing Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

How are libraries using these sites? Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

How we want to be seen – Calgary Public library Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

How they see us- Tasering in UCLA library Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

See: youtubeandlibraries.pbwiki.com Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Add to collection Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Sharing experience Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Subject guides Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Resource collection Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Targeted announcements Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Searchbox on Facebook profile Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Checklist for action

Ensure reasonable public access

Ensure your staff know how to seach content

Check your library’s web presence

Use social software to collaborate and have conversations….

… with other librarians about where libraries fit in this space

Remember

It’s not about what suits US, but

What suits our USERS

Appendix:

Other examples of libraries using Social Software

Promoting services–

Superlibrarian

Calgary public library

Library events

Get it loud in libraries

Information literacy

Georgia institution of Technology

New ideas about librarianship

A librarians 2.0 manifesto

Staff development

SJCPL “Ray of Light”

Users showing us

Police tasaring in UCLA library

Library dominoes

Library recruitment

Nebraska Library Commission

From: youtubeandlibraries.pbwiki.com Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Picture Australia

365 libs project

Display of Art Competition winners from Dowling College Library

"On this day" book display at the Clemens and Alcuin Libraries

American Library Associations Banned Books Week

Penn State Libraries Open House 2007. Staff and students all contributed to the pool of photos from the big Open House event, where the State Library of Pennsylvania has a fun day devoted to helping the students find out more about the library.

Virtual Tour of Lackman Library

A Guide to the Government Documents Collection and the How to use the Microfische machines sets from Z. Smith Reynolds Library

Swan Tafe del.icio.us site

Bremer Tafe del.icio.us site

QUT library Creative Industries subject guide now includes a del.icio.us tag cloud

To communicate with students - Facebook Flyer: Tutt Library is Open Late

To communicate with each other Hottest Facebook groups for Librarians

Top Ten Facebook Apps for Librarians Part One Top Ten Facebook Apps for Librarians Part Two Top Ten Facebook Apps for Librarians Part Three

Library catalogue search box that can be embedded in a Facebook profile University of Notre Dame Libraries widget University of Alberta Libraries widget University of Illonois at Urbana and Champaign widget Hennepin County Library

Journal database search that can be embedded in Facebook JSTOR

Social Software in Libraries: building collaboration, communication and community online Meredith G. Farkas 2007, Information Today, New Jersey

Sharing privacy and trust in our networked world: A report to the OCLC membership OCLC 2007, OCLC Dublin, Ohio http://www.oclc.org/reports/sharing/default.htm