WorkshopWorkshop

Friday, June 19, 2009 Multi Purpose Room , US Embassy,

142 Old Hope Road , Kingston 6 10:00 am – 12 noon

Presenter:

Mark-Shane Scale

Lecturer, Dept. of Library & Info. Studies

Univ. of the West Indies, Mona Campus

&

Info Tech Working Party Chair,

LIAJA

Introduction

Today's technologies permit us to integrate and relate content, and to create and publish new content easily on the Web.

This presentation

identifies the converging trends that:

• are giving a broader and richer context to information and to knowledge &

• are having an important impact on library services.

Topics include:

• Web 2.0 and librarians

• mobile technologies,

• blogs,

• user trends,

• technologies used by users, &

• widgets.

Web 2.0 and librarians

The converging of 2 worlds!

Today, there are 2 worlds.

The world off the Web and the world on the Web.

Do you hang out in 2 worlds?The Offline world

The Online world

Features of Web 2.0 Features of Web 2.0 technologies technologies

• Allow for the creation of Web pages that Allow for the creation of Web pages that – can be shared can be shared – viewers can comment on or contribute toviewers can comment on or contribute to– are not static and can be updated regularly are not static and can be updated regularly

• Continuously evolving  Continuously evolving  – ongoing improvements and changesongoing improvements and changes

Bradley, Phil. How to Use Web 2.0 in Your Library. London: Facet Publishing, 2007 

Web 2.0 technologiesWeb 2.0 technologies

 Social bookmarking sites - Social networking sites -

Online video sharing sites -

Online photo sharing sites -

Web 2.0 technologiesWeb 2.0 technologies

Wikis -

Blogs -  Document sharing sites - 

http://wikis.ala.org/iwa/index.php/Main_Page

"The online environment has become an important and growing part of economic,

cultural, civic, and social life, and the use of new Internet-based applications for

collaboration and learning - including "social networking" sites - is becoming increasingly

prevalent."

Publishers are going Web 2.0

ON

Today’s media is going Web 2.0.

The Gleaner is going where life “unfolds”

Even CXC is going Web 2.0

CXC Channel on

http://www.youtube.com/user/caribbeanexams

With the rising content on the Web

the librarian’s mandate is the same:

to provide access to information in all formats or media.

UNESCO/IFLA UNESCO/IFLA Public Library ManifestoPublic Library Manifesto (1994)(1994)

""AllAll age groupsage groups must find material relevant to must find material relevant to their needs. their needs. Collections and services have to Collections and services have to

include all types of appropriate media and include all types of appropriate media and modern technologies as well as traditional modern technologies as well as traditional

materials...materials...Material must reflect current trends Material must reflect current trends and the evolution of society, as well as the and the evolution of society, as well as the

memory of human endeavour and imagination. "memory of human endeavour and imagination. "

Is your library providing Is your library providing collections collections 

  and services that includeand services that include

  modern technologies & media?modern technologies & media?

  

The materials and services that  

your library provide needs to 

reflect  

the evolution of  

society & human endeavour.

Librarians

Need to be able to navigate Web 2.0 content to provide users with access to information that may be found in this area.

Mobile technologies

• SMS Reference

• Text Message Reference

• Mobile search applications

Blogs

Spaces where public opinion is shaped and current affairs discussed

Blog Search engines

• Technorati http://technorati.com/ -

Search engine for blogs –

where one can access public opinion and discussion of current affairs.

User Trends: A Generation with new Information needs

New Generation of users

• Books are being written for the parents of this generation

• Perhaps one needs to be written for Librarians as well

What Gen Y users want:

• Access to information about their friends– information submitted by friends– that traditional libraries do not provide

•Submit own personal updates to friends

New Generation User Information Needs

• Events happening that they can go to• What colleagues are reading• What friends are doing• Who their friends know• Movies their colleagues are watching• Games their colleagues are playing• Music that colleagues are listening to

Susana Smith Bautista

Ph.D. student and Provost Fellow

the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern Californa

In

“Digital Media in Community Libraries, Part 2: Teen Websites”

Futures of Learning

http://futuresoflearning.org/

Published: Thursday, May 28, 2009

“During times of change

in our society, it is important to identify the spaces where change is taking place, where “public opinion” is being created, and where future leaders are being formed.”

- Bautista

“Teen websites

not only benefit teens with an alternative space for expression and sharing, but they also benefit the libraries that depend on teens as their future patrons and to fulfill their social obligation.”

- Bautista

New technologies &

How our users are using them

Social bookmarks

Del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/

• What users are using to store Web content for future retrieval and access.

• Also used to share content with others and discover what others of similar interest are finding on the Web.

Photo sharing sites

Flickr http://www.flickr.com/

Where users share their photos with others and view the photos of others.

Online E-book publishers

Lulu http://www.lulu.com/

Allow for any user to self-publish e-books and other content online.

Slidecasting

• Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/ -

Uploading of presentation slides for sharing with others.

Also able to retrieve information from these slides.

Web Citation management

Zotero http://www.zotero.org/ -

A free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.

Where users can store the bibliographic details of web content for future citation purposes and to review.

Online knowledge sharing

Where you can get a general overview of topics, concepts, people, places and things.– Information on nouns and proper nouns– How-to-information– Information that is usually more current than

printed sources.

Examples

The people's encyclopaedia

The people's instructional manual for how-to information

Online Knowledge sharing

Knol.com

Where users get well written articles written by experts who share ideas or thoughts on topics of interest.

Widgets

“portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation.”

Source:

Widgets

Yahoo Widgets http://widgets.yahoo.com/

Can be used to create or locate widgets.

Workshop activity

• Identify and locate any of the services mentioned in the presentation

• Conduct a 1 minute oral presentation illustrating how any of the services mentioned could benefit:

a) Your library usersb) You as a librarianc) Your library