Social Discovery, Social Access Stephen Francoeur Baruch College (New York, NY) NFAIS Humanities Roundtable New York, NY 20 October 2008

Image: Von Tatanes

Web 2.0 is about sharing Image: furiousgeorge81

Web 2.0 is about reusing Image: find eric

“ The growing use of Web 2.0 and social networking—combined with collective intelligence and mass amateurization—is gradually but inexorably changing the practice of scholarship.” 2008 Horizon Report

The URL is the coin of the realm. Image: seychelles88

What Users Do with URLs Bookmark Email Cite Save Link

Bookmark

Email

Cite

Save

Link

So what kind of URLs do we give our users?

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=33662654&site=ehost-live ABI/Inform Global (ProQuest) http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1341182471&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=8851&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Library Literature (Wilson) http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?recid=0bc05f7a67b1790e053375cd87049c520439b56e070d4b24c6d890d7046ab8b7952ac6d75f93dfd1&fmt=H Naylor, S., et. al., Why Isn't Our Chat Reference Used More? Finding of Focus Group Discussions with Undergraduate Students. Reference & User Services Quarterly v. 47 no. 4 (Summer 2008) p. 342-54 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2649282 JSTOR

The Last Mile Problem Image: Ewing Galloway

Launches link resolver Article found via WorldCat.org

Find this at my library.

Object-Oriented Social Networks

Users who bookmarked the same article.

Profile of one user who bookmarked the article in Connotea.

“ It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.” Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky

ZDNet Digg NYTimes

Dell IdeaStorm Amazon

User profile in Bibliocommons catalog

Widgetmania!

Search Widgets from the Library Federated search tool.

Search Widgets from Vendors ProQuest search box in my Facebook profile page. JSTOR search box in my Facebook profile page.

Recommendations Better URLs for web 2.0 uses Expose content to the web Help searchers make content social Embrace widgets

Better URLs for web 2.0 uses

Expose content to the web

Help searchers make content social

Embrace widgets

Image Credits Slide 2: Tatanes, Von. http://filipinolibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/12/baruch-colleges-newman-library.html Slide 5: furiousgeorge81. http://flickr.com/photos/furiousgeorge81/177926979/ Slide 6: find eric. http://flickr.com/photos/phonescoop/1940736498/ Slide 8: seychelles88. http://flickr.com/photos/seychelles88/362428141/ Slide 15: Galloway, Ewing. http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?731081F

Slide 2: Tatanes, Von. http://filipinolibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/12/baruch-colleges-newman-library.html

Slide 5: furiousgeorge81. http://flickr.com/photos/furiousgeorge81/177926979/

Slide 6: find eric. http://flickr.com/photos/phonescoop/1940736498/

Slide 8: seychelles88. http://flickr.com/photos/seychelles88/362428141/

Slide 15: Galloway, Ewing. http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?731081F

Sources Johnson, Laurence F., Levine, Alan, and Smith, Rachel S. 2008 Horizon Report. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium, 2008. 16 October 2008 <http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf>. link Schmidt, Aaron. “NFAIS: social database mockup.” Walking Paper. 1 March 2008. 16 October 2008. <http://www.walkingpaper.org/569>. link Shirky, Clay. “It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure.” Web 2.0 Expo, New York, NY. 18 September 2008. 16 October 2008 <http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/schedule/detail/4817>. link

Johnson, Laurence F., Levine, Alan, and Smith, Rachel S. 2008 Horizon Report. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium, 2008. 16 October 2008 <http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf>. link

Schmidt, Aaron. “NFAIS: social database mockup.” Walking Paper. 1 March 2008. 16 October 2008. <http://www.walkingpaper.org/569>. link

Shirky, Clay. “It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure.” Web 2.0 Expo, New York, NY. 18 September 2008. 16 October 2008 <http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/schedule/detail/4817>. link