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Reinventing Ourselves as Internet Librarians. Internet Librarian International 2006 By Greg R. Notess SearchEngineShowdown.com. Information Landscape. Change. Search Engine Changes. MSN Search to Live.com Exalead New Interface Google Sub page results Mid Page Results. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Reinventing Ourselves as Internet Librarians
Internet Librarian International 2006By Greg R. Notess SearchEngineShowdown.com
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Information Landscape
Change
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Search Engine Changes
MSN Search to Live.com Exalead New Interface Google Sub page results
Mid Page Results
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Commercial Databases
Interface Changes Once a year?
Content Changes Sometimes daily
The Internet Librarian
What are We?
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Reinventing Ourselves?
New Skills vs. Old Skills
HTMLCSS
CMS
AJAX
Perl
JavaScript
XML
Wikis
FRBR
MODS
Blogs
RSS
Web 2.0
Library 2.0PodCasts
Screencasts
XHTML
MARC
Boolean
Concept Codes
Doc Types
Info LiteracyClassification
MeSH
Verification
Thesauri
ControlledVocabulary
Reference Interview
UDC
Boolean
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New(er) Technologies . .
Ipod, Video Ipod Eye Piece for Web Browsing Blackberry Sony Ebook Reader
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Using all these?
Remove the physical library Roving librarian Becomes
A Gadget Covered Librarian?
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Or Vox?
from The Time Machine (2002) Orlando Jones as Vox
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Librarians as
Sponge?
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What’s our future?
Use only blogs, wikis, IM, . . . ? Focus only on new
technology? Forget our old skills?
No& Yes
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Reinvention Does Not Need to
Ignore our strengths Forget our skills Or ignore tech failures
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Absorb and Share More
Maintain strengths from past Build on them with
Future technology
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Collection
Print & Online More to buy than ever before Experiment with new offerings
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Organize
Increasingly complex E-collections in catalog
-or- separate database OpenURL, CrossRef Much still to solve
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Teaching/Instruction
One on one or Group As we push our resources
Push instruction online Screencasting
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Reference Service
Face to face continues More tech questions Virtual reference
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Potential & Pitfalls
Blog: Quick Website msusymposium
“Can’t find anything worthwhile”
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Potential & Pitfalls
RSS Reality Alerts News feeds
Engineering Village RSS feeds and Blog button
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Wiki Wake-Up
Shared Editing User Contributions Conference Wikis
Empty Wikis? Forums?
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Hype Meter
How self centered? Blogs about blogging Diggs about Digg Wikis about wikis
Beware closed conversations
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Web 2.0 Reality
Embedding Content YouTube, iRows
Shared Editing ZohoPlanner, ZohoSheet
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Implementation Matters
Can we out-Google Google? Sirsi Catalog
Include cover screen shots Table of contents Summaries
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Audience Matters
Can we out-Amazon Amazon? WorldCat
User Contributed Reviews Does WorldCat Audience Want?
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New Technologies
Worthwhile to try Good Tech PR Find the Winners Test your Audience
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The Internet Librarian
Old skills and sources Side by Side with the New
Continual Learning Soak Up New Knowledge
Experiment, and Share
Thank You