iain wallace digital services development librarian spoken word services
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Iain Wallace Digital Services Development Librarian
Spoken Word Serviceswww.spokenword.ac.uk
Use web services & apis
LibraryThing OCLC WorldCat Grid Services Amazon Web Services Google Book Search API
Other Libraries demos
• University of Huddersfieldhttp://webcat.hud.ac.uk/ • Ann Arbor District Libraryhttp://www.aadl.org/catalog • Darien Libraryhttp://www.darienlibrary.org/catalog • Plymouth State Universityhttp://library.plymouth.edu/ • North Carolina State Universityhttp://www.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/
Vendors
• Talis Platform• Bowker AquaBrowser• Ex Libris Primo• Innovative Interfaces Encore• SirsiDynix – Enterprise?
What can you do now?
• Think about what your users (and non-users) want and need
• Learn from others in your community• Blogging• Podcasting• Experiment with
Delicious/Flickr/Facebook/etc• New generation OPACs?
Some ‘stars’ of ‘Library 2.0’
• Dave Pattern, University of Huddersfieldhttp://www.daveyp.com/blog/ • Paul Miller & Richard Wallis, TALIS - http://librarygang.talis.com • Michael Casey, Gwinnett County Public
Library - http://librarycrunch.com/ • John Blyberg, Darien Library -
http://www.blyberg.net/ • Casey Bisson, Plymouth State Universityhttp://maisonbisson.com/blog/ • Library 2.0 tag at Delicious -
http://delicious.com/tag/library2.0
Blogging
• Wordpress.com, Blogger.com, etc.• Very easy to set up and maintain (no
software or tech knowledge required)• RSS pushes updates to users• Comments functionality encourages
interaction• Syndication encourages collaboration and
generates publicity• Can have different blogs for different
purposes/subjects
• Some examples online ….
Podcasting
• Pretty simple to set up• Fits will with blogging – uses same RSS
technology to push new ‘episodes’• Can be accessed anytime/anywhere• Accessible via browser or downloaded to
portable device (music player/phone, etc.)
• Sound and video can bring subject to life• Screencasts can capture screen
behaviour for e-resources
• Some examples online …
Make an Opac 2.0 wishlistDIY and/or Vendor Support?• Personalisation• spell checking (“did you mean?”)• search all library resources (inc. e-
resources) • relevancy ranking, search refining, and
facets• manual recommendations (“best bets”)• automated suggestions (based on both global and user-specific
data)• user participation (“read-write OPAC”)
With thanks to Dave P
Further Information
This presentation will appear on Slideshare soon
http://www.slideshare.net/iainjwallace
Iain WallaceDigital Services Development LibrarianE: [email protected] T: 0141 273 1901W: http://www.spokenword.ac.uk