Explore five case studies of librarians and library professionals who have created online programs specifically geared to the field using technologies such as podcasting, YouTube channels, Twitter Chats, and Google Hangouts.

1. Delivering the Message
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2. Information & Professional
Development through the Use
of Technology in the Field of
Librarianship

3. Information Dissemination Theory
When looking at the delivery of information four major
components are to be considered:
• Audience or User
• Source of Delivery
• Content of Information
• Type of Media being Used

4. • Face to Face
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Web 2.0
• Social Network
• Pay for Services
• Photo Sharing
• Video Sharing
• Chats
• Instant Message
• Libguides
• Websites

5. Tech Fifteen

6. • Short Videos
• Integrate Technology
• Easily Accessible
• Closed Captioned, Universal Design

7. Sample

8. Circulating Ideas
Steve Thomas

9. I started just listening to podcasts myself; mostly
just NPR shows … all the popular NPR kind of shows.
I gravitated toward interview shows, just learning
about something I didn't know through interview. I
realized I would love to have that for librarians and
just like you with this study, you notice there is a
hole in the marketplace so what do you do you fill
it. You don't wait for someone else to find the spot
and get into it.

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11. • Audio podcasts
• Reach peers in librarianship
• Professional development
• All types of librarians included

13. Lets Talk About Learning Spaces
Forrest Foster

14. Midway through what we were doing, I found out that we
weren't just helping our library; we were helping other libraries
because people were actually listening. The phrase act locally,
share globally comes to mind.…. Our operating costs were not at
the level of a large studio with additional personnel and
multiple consoles. Our program is a viable web tool via the
internet. To sum it up best, I like to use the word -
ephemeralization – a term coined by R. Buckminster Fuller and
it means doing more and more with less and less until
eventually you can do everything with nothing.

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17. • Live online radio
• Blog Talk Radio
• Saved in podcast format
• Focus on library and learning spaces
• Wanted to learn about librarianship,
shares answers with everyone

18. Staxpeditions
Colleen Theisen

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20. I see what I want it (the channel) to be, which
means that I usually see that it isn't what I want it
to be yet. Ira Glass calls that "the gap," where
you're stuck between your vision and what you can
accomplish right now. I have a lot of goals.

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23. Nerdfighters?!!!
The Nerdfighter community was introduced in 2007 by John and
Hank Green, brothers who created their own YouTube channel
and online project Brotherhood 2.0. The idea behind
Nerdfighting is activism through online-based communities. As
Colleen states, “When I was conceptualizing it (the channel), I
thought of Nerdfighters, because they're the ones who already
have a predisposition to be interested in the cultural factors
where our video fits in and consume media along the lines of the
places where we share content. Then there's a great overlap
between Nerdfighters and librarians as well, so that works out
nicely.”

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25. • YouTube videos and Tumblr,
• Encourage outreach
• Focus an eye on special collections
• Open lines of communication

27. American Libraries Live
Dan Freeman

28. We were looking for some way to synthesize several
different types of medium. We wanted something
that would integrate social media, and a webinar live
session type of thing, but to be more than a webinar.
We wanted something that was essentially an
interactive TV show.

29. • Deliver info to library community
• Guest librarians every month
• Myriad of topics
• Panel video format.
• Live audience
• Archived for future viewing

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33. TL Community
Nikki D. Robertson

34. Our community basically offers three professional
development style opportunities for school
librarians. TL Virtual Café is the first Monday of
every month, and it's a webinar series broadcast on
Blackboard Collaborate. Then, the second Monday
of every month is the Twitter chat, #tlchat. Then,
the third Monday is a live news style show using
Google Hangout where we have state library
associations or other educational guests on to
discuss hot topics as they apply to school libraries
Image courtesy of Nikki D. Robertson

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37. • Twitter and Google Hangout
• Community for Teacher-Librarians
• Wide range of guests
• Wide range of topics

38. Images courtesy of #tlchat

39. Questions for You
• Have you experienced any of these kinds of
media?
• Do you have a favorite?
• Do you create any outreach for your
patrons/library audience?
• Do you have a desire to?

40. Questions?
Heather Moorefield-Lang
moorefield-lang@sc.edu
@actinginthelib
www.techfifteen.com