As presented at Computers in Libraries 2012

1. Web 2.0 Tools &
Applications in
Libraries
Nicole C. Engard @nengard
Vice President of Education, ByWater Solutions
Author: The Accidental Systems Librarian 2d

2. Outline
● Live demos/hands on with
four Web 2.0 tools:
○ Delicious
○ Flickr
○ Wordpress
○ Zotero

3. Delicious
Me: http://delicious.com/nengard

4. Delicious
www.delicious.com
● Online bookmarking
○ Save all of your bookmarks in the cloud
○ Access them from any computer
○ Tag them for easy searching and recovery
○ Create stacks (like folders) to organize them
● Link Sharing
○ Find your friends and create a network
○ Save links publicly and share them
○ RSS feeds for your links

5. Bookmarking
● Sign up for free
● Add a bookmarklet or plugin to your browser
○ Find a page you like and bookmark it
● Import your local bookmarks or bookmarks
from another service

6. Navigating
● Click on tags to see all links
● Search for tags, keywords & people
● Browse stacks

7. Learn more
● Social Bookmarking & Del.icio.us: A
Personal and Professional
Productivity Tool
○ http://slidesha.re/delciouslib
● Delicious Help
○ http://delicious.com/help

8. Flickr
Me: http://flickr.com/photos/nengard

9. Flickr
www.flickr.com
● Photo sharing
○ upload and share photos
● Photo cataloging
○ add location metadata
○ add tags
○ add people
● Camera Finder
○ built from metadata on images

10. Pricing
Free account Pro Accounts are $24.95/yr
● 300 MB monthly photo upload ● Unlimited photo uploads (20MB
limit (15MB per photo) per photo)
● 2 video uploads each month (90 ● Unlimited video uploads (90
seconds max, 150MB per video) seconds max, 500MB per video)
● Photostream views limited to the ● The ability to show HD Video
200 most recent images ● Unlimited storage & bandwidth
● Post any of your photos in up to ● Archiving of high-res original
10 group pools images
● Only smaller (resized) images ● The ability to replace a photo
accessible (though the originals ● Post any of your photos or
are saved in case you upgrade videos in up to 60 group pools
later) ● Ad-free browsing and sharing
● View count and referrer
statistics

11. Signing Up
● Sign up with your account from:
○ Facebook
○ Google
○ Yahoo!
● Or create a Yahoo! account

12. Navigating
● On the homepage you see options for:
○ Your Photostream
■ Your recent photos
○ Recent Photos
■ Photos from/of your friends
○ Your Groups
■ Photos added to your groups
○ Explore
■ Random interesting photos
● Search box in the top right

13. Uploading Images
Images can be uploaded with various
tools:
● Flickr website (link on right of home)
● Flickr Uploadr (download to desktop)
○ flickr.com/tools/uploadr/
● Upload via email
○ flickr.com/account/uploadbyemail
● MobileApps

14. Librarian Groups
● 365 Days Library Project
○ flickr.com/groups/365libs/
● Libraries & Librarians
○ flickr.com/groups/librariesandlibrarians/
● ReadPosters
○ flickr.com/groups/readposters/
● Search for more:
○ flickr.com/search/groups/

15. Ordering Prints
You can order prints through Flickr
partners:
● Snapfish (www.snapfish.com)
○ Can be done through Flickr itself
● QOOP(www.qoop.
com/direct_upload/directUpload.php)

16. Learn more
● Flickr for Libraries:
○ www.slideshare.net/nengard/flickr-
for-libaries
● Flickr FAQ:
○ flickr.com/help/faq/
● Flickr Forums:
○ flickr.com/help/forum/

17. Wordpress
Me: http://web2learning.net
and many many many more!

18. Wordpress
● Open Source Content Management
System
○ wordpress.org
● Freely hosted blog/website
○ wordpress.com
● Not strictly Web 2.0 but provides
many Web 2.0 tools for your website

19. Why Wordpress?
● No programming knowledge
necessary
● Easy to navigate
● Built in search engine
● Thousands of plugins/extensions
● Thousands of pre-made themes
● Tons of online documentation & help
● Lots of Web 2.0 integration!

20. Wordpress as a CMS
● It’s for more than just blogging
● Allows for multiple users/
permissions
● No need for system admin -
anyone can upgrade/edit files
● Easy, Easy, Easy!

21. Wordpress for Libraries
● WP4Lib (Community for Libraries
using Wordpress)
○ http://wp4lib.bluwiki.com
● Wordpress in Libraries
○ http://www.wpinlibraries.org

22. Wordpress Presentations
People to follow on SlideShare:
● Stephanie Leary www.slideshare.
net/stephanieleary
● Syed Balkhi www.slideshare.
net/wpbeginner
● Andrea Rennick www.slideshare.
net/AndreaRennick

23. Wordpress Books
● Leary, Stephanie. Beginning WordPress 3. 1st ed.
Apress, 2010.
● Jones, Kyle, and Polly-Alida Farrington. Using
WordPress as a library content management system.
Vol. 47. Library Technology Reports 3. Chicago IL: ALA
TechSource, 2011.
● Hedengren,Thord Daniel. Smashing WordPress:
Beyond the Blog. Wiley, 2010.
● Tomasi, Chuck, and Kreg Steppe. Sams Teach Yourself
WordPress 3 in 10 Minutes. 1st ed. Sams, 2010.
● Beck, Jessica Neuman, and Matt Beck. 2009.
WordPress:Visual QuickStart Guide. [S.l.]: Peachpit
Press.

24. Zotero
Me: http://www.zotero.org/nengard

25. Zotero
www.zotero.org
● Collect, organize, cite, and share your
research sources
● Open Source online bibliography tool
● Firefox plugin and Standalone edition
● Share resources publicly or keep them
private
● Join and create groups for sharing

26. Signing Up
● Sign up for free
● Install the plugin or application
● Find resources and save them!
● Attach PDFs for storage (more storage costs
$$)

27. Groups
● Web 2.0 in Education: zotero.
org/groups/web_2.0_in_education/items
● Adventures in Library Instruction: zotero.
org/groups/adventures_in_library_instruction/ite
ms
● Free/Libre and Open Source Software and
Libraries Bibliography: zotero.
org/groups/freelibre_and_open_source_softwar
e_and_libraries_bibliography/items

28. Learn More
● Puckett, Jason. Zotero : a Guide for
Librarians, Researchers, and Educators.
Chicago: Association of College and
Research Libraries, 2011.
● Puckett, Jason. “Zotero Research Guide.”
Library Research Guides at Georgia State
University, n.d. http://research.library.gsu.
edu/zotero.

29. Policies

30. Social Media Policies
● Many libraries want to write up policies once
they start using these tools - check out these
links for more info:
○ www.web2learning.net/archives/1250
○ www.web2learning.net/archives/2967
○ www.schoollibraryjournal.
com/article/CA6699104.html
● Policy Generator: socialmedia.policytool.net

31. Thank You!
Slides:
web2learning.net > Publications &
Presentations
Nicole C. Engard @nengard
nengard@gmail.com