multilingual online services for libraries: gget global with your local!
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With Lora Baiocco, Online services and archives librarian, Westmount Public Library. Quebec, Canada.Ontario Library Association Superconference 2010TRANSCRIPT
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Multilingual Online Services for Libraries
get global with your local!
Lora Baiocco, Online services and archives librarianWestmount Public Library. Quebec, Canada.
Alexandra Yarrow, Supervising librarian, Rideau BranchOttawa Public Library Ontario, Canada
OLA Super Conference 2011
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multilingual web services
• website
• OPAC
• social media
• bibliographic enhancements
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Agenda
• why?• big system / little system• Considerations• top 10 = 6 tips + 4 wishes• world of awesome
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why? x8
image from Flickr by Alexander Henning Drachman http://www.flickr.com/photos/drachmann/327122302/
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• Lack of demand• Lack of service• Lack of demand• Lack of service• Lack of demand• Lack of service• Lack of demand• …..
why?
Photo by Niels Boegh http://www.sxc.hu/photo/497227
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why? whole community
image from Flickr by Jamison Wieser http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamison/3499029128/
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why? local engagement
photo from Flickr by DJ Camachohttp://www.flickr.com/photos/djcamacho/2736501007/sizes/m/in/photostream/
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www.storefrontlibrary.org
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why? physical vs. virtual. still?
photo from Flickr by Kables / Kris http://www.flickr.com/photos/kables/6325298/
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why? access = value 5
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why? service 6
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why? beyond borders
http://www.geekosystem.com/facebook-connection-world-map/
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why? the conversation
http://www.vincos.it/world-map-of-social-networks/
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digital dividebrecha digital fracture
numérique divario digitale
Image from Flickr by Pete Ashton: http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteashton/146434350
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needs assessement
Moose in the City. http://www.toronto.ca/moose/home.htm
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where we’re coming from
• Big system / Little system
Photo: Rhéal Doucette, Ottawa Public Library
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Ottawa
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Why multilingual for us?
2006 Census: Ottawa – mother tongues spoken
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Fully bilingual OPAC and website
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OPL initiatives
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OPL initiatives: Information for newcomers
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OPL initiatives: Information for newcomers
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Westmount
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why multilingual for us?
• demographics • legal and political service
• Fully bilingual:– website : www.westlib.org– OPAC : www.westlibcat.org
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WPL: Facebook
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6 Tips
Image from Jack Newton (jdn): http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdn/2400098202/
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Tip1
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Use free stuff
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New South Wales State Library, Australia
http://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/multicultural/glossary/
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Termiumplus.qc.ca
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UNTERM – United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database
http://unterm.un.org/ http://delicious.com/multibiblio
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Library Associations
The national association to promote Library & Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish speaking
www.reforma.org
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Tip2
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Translate & Re-use(then share)
Image from Flickr by Dylan Otto Krider (memekiller)http://www.flickr.com/photos/memekiller/3498144025
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Consider…
• contact us info
• services
• logos
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OPL: LCD screens
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OPL – Events database
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Tip
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Find opportunities in what you’re already doing
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Help them find you
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliowestmount/4031386701/in/set-72157622585782730/
Tag it!
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Photo by Thomas Hawk on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/4438276518
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http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/services/multilingual.html
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Tip4
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Design with language in mind
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OPL: Blog(ue)
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www.westlib.org/adosteens
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Tip5
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Use theCatalogue
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Make materialeasy to find by language
collocate collections!
• create a virtual “branch”• add a local SH• offer language as a filter
http://delicious.com/multibiblio
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Ottawa - Bibliocommons
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Tip6
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A picture is worth…
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Our teens speak… www.westlib.org/adosteens
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Considerations
• cultural attitudes• inclusion / exclusion• translation costs • work load and unions• measuring ROI
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4 Wishes
Image from Flickr by David Reece:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spursfan_ace/2473862606/
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Wish
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Multilingual Add-ons
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Example: AddThis
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We wish...
Interfaces AND content in multiple languages =ALWAYS AN OPTION
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/Checkmark.png
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Wish
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Re-think Search
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We wish…
More people (vendors included!) would start to leverage available technologies to re-think search
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gerlos/3119891607/
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Example: CACAO Project
• Cross-language Access to Catalogues and Online libraries
• http://www.cacaoproject.eu/• Translates the search
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Wish
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Design Intention
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We wish…
Library services were always designed to serve users in multiple languages FROM THE OUTSET
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Wish
4
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Access for All
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We wish…
For access to information for all library users
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whether they seek it in the ways and languages we’re familiar with or not
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CONTACT US: in English or/ ou en Français
Lora Baiocco
Alexandra [email protected]
http://delicious.com/
multibiblio
Thank you!
Merci!
Gracias!
لك شكرا
Dank u!
Danke!
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Awesome
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Vancouver Public Library www.vpl.ca
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Queens Library (New York)www.queenslibrary.org
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TPL …new to Canadawww.torontopubliclibrary.ca/new-to-canada/
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Ann Arbor District Library www.aadl.org
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Los Angeleswww.lapl.org