The document discusses the changing landscape of information access and sharing in the era of powerful online platforms like Google and Amazon. It outlines several trends, including the rise of social networks and collaborative tools that allow for aggregation, sharing and filtering of information. Finally, it examines how libraries can leverage these new technologies and approaches to better serve patrons by transforming into participatory and conversational spaces.

1. Reti sociali e strumenti collaborativi: mediare l'informazione nell'era di Googlezon ----- Social networks and collaborative tools: connecting information in the Googlezon era to David Weinberger Bonaria Biancu Die lernende Bibliothek 2007 25-27 September 2007 Universit ä t Innsbruck

7. Library 2.0 meme map

8. Scout Portal Toolkit – LINX at Bicocca Library Open source software funded by Mellon Foundation, builded by University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Internet Scout Project in 2000 Open to everyone to get an account and contribute useful links records OAI-PMH compliance and integration with meta-searching tools (e.g. Metalib)‏ RSS, saved searches, mail alerts, resource comments and ratings + recommendations DCMES and some LOM metadata for resource description News, forum, “Segnala una risorsa” Import/Export, customizable workflow, vocabulary control, user preferences

9. Springshare LibGuides Subject guides, opac, ejournals, ebooks, database, podcasts ... Wiki-like collaborative publishing system Live reference with the librarian + links to her Facebook profile, blog, website Social tagging and bookmarking, email alerts, feed rss Popular guides and tags displayed in home page + polls to give evidence to users' feedback Information from outside: library news, last entries of related blogs and ejournals or other rss-based websites, del.icio.us tag clouds, chat box, custom search engines Users' comments and ratings to the resources Unique search module for Libguides, web, opac, tags, librarians Widgets to embed library content into blogs, websites, social networks, courseware systems

10. University of Alberta Facebook app Live reference Search in OPAC Information on RefWorks Ex Libris Citation Linker “Get it!” Other applications in Facebook: OPACs Digital libraries Reference online Course textbooks finder Useful resources Network of friends can: Access my information Put a box in my profile Place a link in my left-hand navigation Publish stories in my News Feed Let me get in touch with other users (patrons, co-workers etc.)‏ Join networks Leave messages Answer questions Send notes, photos, videos etc. ... Library news

13. From catalog to discovery tools Library Thing Import from 90 international catalogs Users' social profile displaying personal info and connections between books, feeds and comments 18 millions book cataloged, 23 millions tags added, 500,000 contributed covers and 245,000 reviews Library Suggester + Books Suggester and Un-Suggester Social tagging, ratings, comments, reviews, conversations, recommendations, groups Authors page with books, conversations, ratings, reviews, link to web sites, related tags Book acquisition, finding (in a library) and swapping Bibliographic metadata of the book and the “work” + MARC records, LCSH, Dewey Number, LoC Call Number + Citations export + Links to the author’s or book web site and to Wikipedia entries + Search this book LibraryThing for libraries: tags, ratings, reviews, other editions and translations for OPAC records Widgets, bookmarklets, APIs, Firefox extensions, import/export

14. From catalog to discovery tools Freebase Collaborative editing of records and adding metadata fields Content provided by Wikipedia and users under GFDL or CC License Bottom-up categorization: types of data and their domains are discussed among the members (so is the necessity to adopt external classification schemes)‏ Factors to consider when describing books... What does the author do best? What makes the book popular? What do readers talk about most? What other authors/titles does the book remind you of? Who else might enjoy reading this book and why? How does it fit with other books in a genre? Open APIs and freedom of contributing content and querying the database Book considered primarily as a “work” (but also different editions)‏ Books metadata include: title, author, edition, editor, language, publisher, characters, awards won, subjects, copyright date, verse form etc. But the authors are persons with name, surname, religion, education, profession, website, employment, siblings etc. Semantic structure of topics, types and domains

15. From catalog to discovery tools Worldcat Save bibliographies from search results Get it (fin in other libraries; buy it; CoinS compliance -> openurl)‏ Save it (bookmark; save into a list)‏ Add to it (review; public notes)‏ Share it (easy and permanent url; bookmark tools)‏ Narrow results with facets (author, content, format, language, year)‏ Article searching Table of contents, notes, editions, reviews Citation formats and export Related subjects, similar items by subject, book covers, additional info (website, publisher description)‏ Lists can be public or private, and public lists can be searched and shared with friends and colleagues Browsers plug-ins and toolbars Widget to embed search module in websites or blogs WorldCat identities

18. Bonaria Biancu -- aka The Geek Librarian University of Milano-Bicocca Library blog: http://bonariabiancu.wordpress.com library web: http://www.biblio.unimib.it Questions? Digital miscellaneousness = Partecipatory Networks + Alive and kicking! All trademarks registered – This work is under by-nc-sa CC License