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Using Web 2.0 Applications as Information Awareness Tools The past few years have seen several new technological initiatives at Drexel University in interdisciplinary fields such as Nanomedicine, Engineering Cities, Drug Delivery, Plasma Medicine, Nanoscale Science and Technology, Microfluidics, and Bionanotechnology. These technological initiatives require faculty and students to work together in groups in a collaborative fashion. This has motivated librarians to experiment with new ways of reaching out to faculty and students. Drexel's emphasis on team based engineering design projects requires students to develop critical understanding of engineering subject areas. Developing awareness about the core electronic resources such as IEEE Xplore, Knovel, Web of Knowledge, Science Direct and Engineering Village is crucial in successfully undergoing research and completing assignments in their classes.This presentation outlines innovative experiments using web 2.0 applications to increase information among faculty and students. Several web 2.0 tools such as Facebook, Friendfeed, Del.icio.us, Google Reader, Wikis, and blogs will be covered. Having engineering librarian's presence on Facebook is useful since many of the students are heavy Facebook users. Drexel's student Organizations such as IEEE and ASME are also on Facebook. Moreover, Drexel University's College of Engineering has recently launched its Facebook page where activities celebrating National Engineering Week have been quickly promoted among student. Drexel Engineering Information Awareness Campaign Group is a librarian-created Facebook group aimed at increasing awareness of new and existing resources among faculty and students. Feeds from Google Reader can be made automatically available on Facebook pages. For this to happen, a user needs to become ‘a friend’ with the engineering librarian on Facebook.As faculty and students become more aware of new and existing information tools, the information skills learned during the process of exploring these resources will contribute to life-long learning among the engineering students.TRANSCRIPT
Using Web 2.0 Applications as Information Awareness
Tools
Using Web 2.0 Applications as Information Awareness
Tools
Jay Bhatt and Dana Denick – Hagerty Library, Drexel University
Presentation for:7th Annual eLearning Conference: March 26th, 2009
Why Web 2.0?Why Web 2.0? New research initiatives being developed in
institutions, universities and organizations Drexel no exception Multidisciplinary Fields: Nanotechnology,
Plasma Medicine, Engineering Cities, etc… More research being done
Need for increased information awareness of new resources and tools
New and innovative ways of reaching out to researchers need further exploration
Web 2.0 tools are effective ways to share, generate and distribute knowledge among researchers – shared communication
Stephen Abrams thinks that Web 2.0 is “about a much higher level of interactivity and deeper user experiences…”
Potential for more academic and research based collaborations
Why Web 2.0?Why Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 Applications Web 2.0 Applications coveredcovered
Blogs RSS Feeds Feed Readers Bookmarks and Tagging Aggregators Social Networks
What is a Blog? Why use a What is a Blog? Why use a blog?blog?
Consists of dated entries in reverse chronological order
Frequently updated Library blog can include news items,
announcements, instructional tips, new electronic resources, etc.
Searchable by subject area
Drexel Library BlogsDrexel Library Blogs Library Log See Library Blogs
News from the Drexel University Libraries Careers Collections Blog
Announcing new career-related resources, events and advice for job hunters in the Drexel community.
Drexel Physics News, events and resources from the Drexel University Libraries
relating to physics. ischoolResearch
News and tips from the Drexel University Libraries relating to the iSchool.
Drexel Emerging Technologies What’s new and interesting for Drexel University Libraries Staff
Print is Dead – E-Resources blog Primarily for Drexel University Libraries staff, designed to keep
readers abreast of developments in electronic resources
Engineering Resources Engineering Resources BlogsBlogs
Engineering Information Blogs http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/englibrary/ http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/engineeringlibraryinstruction/
Announcement of new resources, instructional tips for using a particular database or a resource, new and important web resources and more.
Archive of information added over a period of time
Emphasis on resources for CoE and Biomedical Engineering – mainly subscription based
Engineering Resources Blogs
Englibrary Blog
Share/Save Toolbars Connect separate social networks
with each other quickly and easily Facebook Twitter Digg Del.icio.us
Makes it easier to share the data, encourages the spread of information
Engineering Resources Blogs
Engineering Resources Engineering Resources BlogsBlogs
Engineering Design Resources Biomedical Engineering
Finding Books, Electronic Books and Journals
Biomedical Properties Patents and Intellectual Property Ethical Issues
Englibrary BlogEnglibrary Blog
What is RSS?What is RSS? RSS - Real Simple Syndication
Brings contents to you Content available as new feeds
XML based (eXtensible Markup Language) For content distribution called feeds
Aggregators – contains compilation of feeds
Collect feeds and display them in easy to read format
More later during the talk See also: Using RSS to increase user
awareness of e-resources in academic librarieshttp://www.higheredblogcon.com/index.php/using-rss-to-increase-user-awareness-of-e-resources-in-academic-libraries/
Getting RSS FeedsGetting RSS Feeds Feed readers (RSS feed readers)
Collect various feeds and consolidate the information
Downloadable Feed Readers: Google Reader, http://www.google.com/reader Bloglines, http://www.bloglines.com RSS Compendium: http://allrss.com/rssreaders.html
Many blogs have built in RSS feeds. RSS feeds are identified by ‘XML’ ‘RSS’ or
icons Just add the URL associated with the icons to
your feed reader Englibrary:
http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/englibrary/?feed=rss
Engineering Resources RSS Engineering Resources RSS FeedsFeeds
Electronic Journal FeedsElectronic Journal Feeds Integrating feeds from journals and
journal articles Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Materials Institute of Physics Science Online IEEE Computer Society Royal Society of Chemistry University of Chicago Press Journals Many more to come including ScienceDirect
Announcing Events on Announcing Events on BlogsBlogs
Collaboration with Faculty & Collaboration with Faculty & StudentsStudents
Identify faculty and students working on blogs Drexel CoAS E-Learning Blog Drexel Smart House Blog Department of Civil, Architectural and
Environmental Engineering Blog
One more opportunity to work together!
Bookmarks and TaggingBookmarks and Tagging Social Bookmarking services allow users
to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. Del.icio.us Diigo
Information rich resources can be shared among engineering faculty and students.
Users can categorize resources using their own tagging system.
AggregatorsAggregators Collect various feeds from blogs,
bookmarking systems and other forms of posted material in one location Friendfeed Twitter
Aggregators Allows audience to narrow down
the flow of information, get only what they want
Keeps audience up-to-date without having to visit the website
FriendfeedFriendfeed
Social Networks Students in academic environments use
social networks to connect with their friends and colleagues.
A Librarian’s presence on a students’ social tool will increase the visibility of library resources: Information Awareness
Social Networks: Facebook Myspace Orkut
Boxes- FacebookBoxes- Facebook
My Links- FacebookMy Links- Facebook
Notes - Facebook
Groups - Facebook
Groups - Facebook
Adding Value Adding Value setting up blogs, instant messaging, wikis using Facebook, RSS feeds and widgets offering more spaces within library for
podcasts, vodcasts or any new technological product for the web
opting for more personalization tools and rating options
customizing curriculum resource pages, offering Web 2.0 classes for the public on
blogging, etc.
VisionVision More and more electronic journals
will develop RSS feeds Increased use of applications such
as Facebook with imported Feeds More collaboration among
students, researchers, faculty members and librarians
More outreach necessary
Thank You!Thank You! Thank you very much and have fun using
Web 2.0 Applications. Feedback welcome. Interested in creating and developing a
collaboration? Additional Reading:
Paper presented at the International Conference of Asian Special Libraries, New Delhi, 2008. http://idea.library.drexel.edu/handle/1860/2973
Contact us anytime at: Jay Bhatt, [email protected] Dana Denick, [email protected] Katherine Lynch, [email protected]