Keeping up: strategic use of online social networks for librarian current awareness
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Presentation for VALA 2010 by Sue Cook and Con Wiebrands. If reusing please remove CSIRO branding and template. Copy of paper available via http://www.vala.org.au/conferences/vala2010/vala2010-programme (registration required)
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Keeping up: strategic use of online social networks for librarian current awareness
- 1. Keeping up Strategic use of online social networks for librarian current awareness Sue Cook, Information Specialist, CSIRO Information Management and Technology Constance Wiebrands, Manager: Library Services Edith Cowan University Library
- 2. CSIRO. Keeping Up- VALA DSpace OpenURL Open Archive Initiative Unicode XML STORS VERS Open source Sirius AARLIN CONZULSys SWIFT PDA ILMS Distributed authentication OCLC Virtual Learning Environment
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- 5. Filters CSIRO. Keeping Up- VALA
- 6. It works CSIRO. Keeping Up- VALA
- 10. Hyperconnectivity CSIRO. Keeping Up- VALA
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- 16. Flexible CSIRO. Keeping Up- VALA
- 17. Relevance is tailored by filters CSIRO. Keeping Up- VALA International Librarians Australian Librarians Perth Web Developers
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- 21. SNS are being used but not relied on CSIRO. Keeping Up- VALA
- 22. SNS are not just the toys of the young CSIRO. Keeping Up- VALA
- 23. Features are not as important as community CSIRO. Keeping Up- VALA
- 24. Most had used for longer than a year CSIRO. Keeping Up- VALA
- 25. Different sites = different information CSIRO. Keeping Up- VALA
- 26. Twitter was the site most used for sharing or obtaining professional information CSIRO. Keeping Up- VALA
- 34. Evaluation-profile information CSIRO. Keeping Up- VALA
- 35. Evaluation - Twitter lists CSIRO. Keeping Up- VALA
- 41. Weeding tools CSIRO. Keeping Up- VALA As at 1/ Feb listed 50+ tools to help follow or unfollow people
- 44. Thank you CSIRO IM&T Library Services Sue Cook Information Specialist Email: sue.cook@csiro.au Edith Cowan University Library Constance Wiebrands Manager: Library Services Email: c.wiebrands@ecu.edu.au CSIRO. Keeping Up- VALA Contact Us Phone: 1300 363 400 or +61 3 9545 2176 Email: enquiries@csiro.au Web: www.csiro.au
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- So I started reading online. I got a smart phone and read some forums and then blogs about that. I discovered Shifted Librarian and Lorcan Dempsey’s (he was a keynote at VALA2004) weblog and a whole world of library blogs. Soon I had discovered RSS feeds and then I had a couple of hundred feeds and was drowning in information.
- I needed filters.
- Roberts Scoble’s sphere of influence on twitter in 2007
- Of 118 respondents who answered the question “How long have you been working in the library sector?” 53 (44.9%) said they have been working for ten or more years in the library sector. 29 (24.6%) respondents had been working for between five to ten years in the sector, while 34 (28.8%) had been working for one to five years. Only 2 (1.7%) respondents had less than a year’s experience in the library sector. From these results it would appear that the age of a library professional does not necessarily predict their use (or otherwise) of SNS.
- Twitter, Friendfeed and Ning were predominantly used for sharing and obtaining information whereas Facebook was used for contact with family and friends
- Non reciprocal relationships aids information discovery
- A brief look at Twitter might be in order. Trending topics – by the minute, of the day, week
- To use, as with all other SNS you will need to create an account
- Twitter is about who you follow. Think about having a phone. If none of your friends or family have a phone it would be a very dull experience
- Show followers numbers @flexnib Direct messages Favourites Retweets
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- I receive notifications of people that have started to follow me. I can choose to just let them but I tend to evaluate them to see whether they are worth following or I can choose to block them if I consider them to be spammers. I evaluate them on their profile, what they have said, if they are conversing with anyone that I am already following. A recent feature of twitter designed to help “curate tweets into meaningful real-time experiences” according to the Twitter developers http://blog.twitter.com/2009/10/theres-list-for-that.html for the obsessive categorisers amongst us. However it is proving a useful evaluation tool. If someone new appears on someone else’s “librarian” list I know a little more about them. Have a look at this example. I received notification of this follower. I had a look at his tweets and profile and was undecided. A look at the lists he was on however showed me that at least two other people cared enough to list him as a spammer.
- Using twitter for research
- A trending or popular topic of discussion Note the #
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