Web 2.0
What tools are you using?
How do you keep up with it?
How are you using it?
Tumblr.com, such as http://www.sciencelibrary.org/
Typepad (web version) (moveable type), such as http://sla-divisions.typepad.com/scitech_101/
Wordpress.org – you can download or use their hosted version
Drupal – opensource software; combines blog & CMS
Personal blogs vs. Library blog – looking @ either / both?
All pretty customizable, depending on time and expertise
Quick poll of attendees and how they use blogs; a lot of attendees blogging (personally); far fewer in Libraries
How often do you update it?
RSS – reception from faculty
Kraus – they can just subscribe based on tag (chemistry, e.g.), such as http://collaborativelibrarianship.wordpress.com/tag/new_issue/feed/
U. of Arizona – reasons are not necessarily about age, but can depend on discipline; faculty in sciences tend to be more recepive, while humanities more “book” oriented but that’s a possibly false stereotype
People are using these technologies but in pieces not necessarily the terms (Web 2.0, RSS, etc.)
You really need to find out what user needs are and how they want it delivered to them.
Eric – Web redesign this year.
U of Ariz – You don’t have to be tech savvy unless you’re downloading
Blogs can be monitored: one person can be voice of library
How many people contribute / write content?
Kraus: Mostly me, but 2 or 3 others will contribute – more of a newsletter (“newsy”) stuff
Feedburner – RSS service (Google)
Sits between your blog and users’ aggregator (reader)
Wordpress plugins
Recommend: Google Reader
Joe Kraus: Collaborative Librarianship News
On Blogspot: Science and Engineering Resources @ Penrose
Also has personal blogs & some w/ other librarians
What do you subscribe to via RSS?
Libguides.com – Research Guides
Scopus results – CUNY page pulls results into page – snippet of java code you can insert in page provided by Scopus – Brooklyn College Library
RSS feeds can be connected to email
How to keep up in field – instruction
Science.gov daily news digest
Social Networking Sites
Facebook. Twitter. MySpace. Ning
Claremont Colleges using it at the Ref Desk chat with students
YouTube video National Association put them up – put up on Facebook – huge right now & Twitter seems to be waning
Mashups – You can pull in your Facebook, Twitter, etc.
[I mentioned Nicole Engard's book on Library Mashups]
Library mashups
How do you use tiny urls
Creepy treehouse – some students don’t like “adults” getting into Facebook, etc.
- may be changing
U of Az – using Facebook and Twitter as pilots
Prospective student thru residents using it
Grad students comment back – interacting
“Campus closures”
Campus communications office has Twitter feed
Newsletter & cited work by Library
Publicity to let students know
WorldCat has app you can put on your Facebook
JStor “ “ “ etc.
Organizations (SLA, etc.) have Facebook page and you can pick up on what’s happening there
Mashups – 2 different data sets to talk to one another
Lots of science social sites – put on wiki
Social Network Tools (web 2.0) in Science
MyExperiment Share experiments, protocols
Connotea and other reference sharing/networking tools like CiteULike
GeneWiki Collaborate on gene annotation using wikipedia
SciVee social-networking science video sharing
Blog post on some more science 2.0 sites
ResearchBlogging peer-reviewed papers reviewed, blogged about and aggregated here.