The Metropolitan Museum of Art library staff adopted several Web 2.0 tools to make their resources more accessible and help patrons with research. A volunteer team experimented with tools like wikis, blogs, Flickr, and RSS feeds. They provided instruction to museum staff on using these tools and saw high interest. A survey later found that most staff had used at least one tool, with Flickr being the most popular. Web 2.0 helped the library share information and resources in new ways.
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1. Demystifying & Integrating Web 2.0 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York Library Association November 6, 2008 Jennie Pu , Senior Library Associate Deborah Vincelli , Electronic Resources & Instructional Services Librarian
2. The Thomas J. Watson Library is the central research library of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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4. The Library also has an extensive collection of subscription electronic resources.
10. Patron Research Needs Specific, idiosyncratic, and âpoint of needâ Searching for the missing piece of an obscure research puzzle â e.g. provenance research
39. We developed a mantra for our class: â Content can be public, completely private, or restricted to a select group of colleagues â you decide .â Concern with Privacy
40. We invited our patrons to evaluate information critically regardless of the container ⊠Concern with Quality
41. â Not all wikis are nightmarish, unvetted entities that exist in the wild ⊠like any other online tool, wikis can be authoritative sources if authored and edited by experts.â (Quote from our class blog)
63. I had heard of some of these tools before but hadn't considered them in a research context. I was especially surprised to see that institutions have begun to start Flickr accounts and blogs.
64. Many of the tools presented could be useful for understanding digital imaging and licensing issues . Photo by Mary Harrsch