Library 2.0

ACTIVITY

View this YouTube video called 'Building Academic Library 2.0'. This is part of a symposium sponsored by Librarians Association of the University of California, Berkeley Division in 2007. While this presentation is over one (1) hour in duration, there are a number of key points raised by a number of speakers, including the keynote speaker Meredith Farkas, that relate to any library or information agency that is trying to transform their library into a 2.0 Library.

Consider advice provided by one or more of the speakers in terms of a library and information agency that you know (as an employee or user). Select five (5) key pieces of advice from these speakers, and consider how these may be applied to your library to help it embrace a Library 2.0 ethos. Write up your findings as a post (of no more than 350 words in your OLJ).

Although the library I am working in can be considered to have embraced Library 2.0 in all of its aspects, that doesn't mean that there isn't a possibility for improvement.  After listening to the talk, the following 5 points struck a chord with me.

1.  Use of microblogging to communicate within areas of the library - since our campus has two libraries and the college has a sister college who we co-operate closely with, also with two libraries setting up some kind of professional micro-blogging knowledge exchange would have potential benefit.  
2.  The fact that current students often turn to their parents as their first port of call.  I think we could be much more proactive in involving parents in understanding how the library can help the academic success of their children.  A few sessions aimed at parents explaining how libguides work, how the catalogue works and how to search academic articles through our journal databases and a bit on citation and social/academic bookmarking would be very helpful and possibly lead to a higher take-up.
3.  "Go where the user is" - we have started greater co-operation with subject teachers through creating LibGuides with help of their input. It would be useful to also have subject specific Diigo accounts where students, teachers and the library can all tag useful links to articles and information.
4. How do we classify? We have already separated out parts of the collection, such as playscripts, biographies, graphic books, poetry.  We are also creating special areas for the IB subjects where we keep multiple copies of "hot reads" where books are no longer purely in the Dewey System. I can only think this process will continue, perhaps to the fiction area where genres are separated out.
5. Time taken to implement.  A number of times the talk mentioned that take-up time for any technology could be in the region of 18 months.  I think we have a bit of a mentality that "build it and they will come" and perhaps we need to spend even more time on user education and encouragement to use the wonderful tools we have created.

Here is a link to a summary of the talk.


References:

Farkas, M. (2007). Building Academic Library 2.0 [YouTube]. Retrieved January 30, 2014, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_uOKFhoznI

University of California Berkeley Library. (2007). Academic Libraries 2.0 Keynote - Meredith Farkas [Blog]. Retrieved January 30, 2014, from http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/newdirections.php/academic_libraries_2_0_keynote_meredith_

Use of social bookmarking

I'm fairly new to social bookmarking, having only commenced using it during my Student Placement for my degree.  I'm currently using it at it's most primitive form, i.e just as a cloud based bookmark bar, although I have used the sharing function with the librarian.

I think my use is similar to that of most people's use of most technology.  They use it as a "quick and dirty" tool and seldom use all the functionality.  This assignment has prompted me to thinking of it in a broader sense and to exploit it more widely, particularly as I start working as a reference librarian.  I need to exploit the "social" part not just the "bookmarking" part. 

Originally our school used Delicious, but moved to Diigo as a result of the fact that it provided the following additional features that Delicious didn't

"What can you do with Diigo that you cannot with Delicious?

Bookmark

• - save bookmarks as private by default (optional)
• - organize your bookmarks as a list and shown as a slide
• - set up groups to pool resources and curate content
• - automatically bookmark your twitter favorites
• - keep a full-text copy of your bookmarks (Premium features)
• - full-text search of your bookmarks (Premium features)
• - save notes and images, in addition to bookmarks

Annotation

• - use highlights and sticky notes as you read - do not just bookmark
• - capture a portion of the screen and annotate on the screenshot" (Diigo, 2013)

At present we are busy preparing the Grade 11 IB students to write their extended essay.  Diigo is a useful tool to teach them and to use while conducting reference interviews for their specific essay, and also to create an area where information on common problems such as citation, accessing databases and referencing can be accumulated.  

Further to this, Library Grit has written a very nice piece on Diigo which you can access here.

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References:

Delasalle, J. (2013, February 22). Bookmarking websites: switching from Delicious to Diigo [Blog]. Library Research Support. Retrieved November 28, 2013, from http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/libresearch/entry/bookmarking_websites_switching/

Diigo V5.0: Collect, Highlight and Remember! [YouTube]. (2010, July 21). Retrieved November 28, 2013, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHWapAF1Txw

Garmoe, P. (2010, December 17). 17 Reasons Delicious.com Users Should Head to Diigo [Blog]. For Bloggers By Bloggers. Retrieved November 28, 2013, from http://bestbloggingtipsonline.com/17-reasons-delicious-diigo/

McKenzie, D. (2014, January 4). Day 1 - Diigo [Blog]. Library Grits. Retrieved January 12, 2014, from http://librarygrits.blogspot.sg/2014/01/day-1-diigo.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/zLvwr+(Library+Grits)

Transition from Delicious to Diigo ~ Instruction & FAQ. (n.d.). Retrieved November 28, 2013, from https://www.diigo.com/transition-from-delicious-to-diigo-faq

First questions

(a) define what social networking is (in your own words);

In my opinion there are two types of social networking - that which occurs online, and that which occurs online. In both my online and offline worlds I enjoy having disparate networks of friends and connections who define parts of who I am and how I function in the world.  These days, my online and offline social networks often intertwine.

A network is basically a group of people who are connected to you by virtue of something you have in common.  For example, I have a network of friends who I work out with at crossfit.  We see each other at workouts and at functions organised by the box, but we're also active through Facebook where we post articles and comments and questions to each other.

On the other hand, I'm a member of LinkedIn, where I'm connected to people who I've worked with or come into contact with professionally - a few of them are personal friends, and some are Facebook friends, but most are not.

For many years I wrote a blog on bilingual chinese / english education.  I wrote this anonymously and over the years built up quite a following of anonymous strangers, some of whom became friends - we were united in a social network but most of us never met.

The best social networks are the ones that give you a buzz, where you're interacting, enjoying and learning and contributing all at the same time.  Funnily enough for me that usually works when I'm one on one with someone and we're "jamming" - not in the musical sense but in the app sense, and it's a case of "look what cool toy I found" and seeing how we can apply it to solve real world personal or professional problems (like today).  Or when you're trying to plan thing and you or someone knows someone who then knows someone else who would be perfect for a talk or presentation or bit of information that will complete what you're trying to achieve.

In order to have a good social network you need to be able to both "get out there" physically and network in real life, and "be out there" hanging out where your professional peers are hanging out - whether that's blogging, twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or whatever else the flavour of the month is.  - And if your kids aren't doing it - it's probably not worth spending much time on.

 In the context of this course, social networking is probably referring to the networking that happens online.  

(b) list what social networking technologies and sites you already use (for personal, work and

study purposes); and

LInkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Diigo, Blogger, Flipboard, Youtube, Evernote, Goodreads, Whatsapp, Picassa, Google+, 

(c) describe what you expect to learn from completing INF506

Keep current, maximise and optimise my time online.  Coherence between the various platforms.