TWU Librarian Greg Hardin, was a presenter for the session, The Social Web: Why It Matters to Librarians with Lilly Ramin, University of North Texas Librarian and Virtual Reference Coordinator, and Shaun Seibel, Library Specialist & web designer for the UNT Discovery Park Library.
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1. The Social Web:
Why it Matters to Librarians
Greg Hardin (TWU libraries)
Lilly Ramin (UNT, Willis Library)
Shaun Seibel (UNT, Discovery Park Library)
Presentation for TechNet Conference (5-7-09)
2. Web 2.0 blah
• When people think of Web 2.0, they think
social (networks). It is you on the web! How
you interact with new and existing
applications.
• “The Social Web” is about identity, reputation,
presence, relationships, groups, conversations,
and sharing (From Shaun Connolly blog:
http://connollyshaun.blogspot.com/2008/05/7-key-
attributes-of-social-web.html)
3. RSS in Plain English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU
4. Types of Information
RSS Can Bring to You
• News Headlines • Web 2.0
• News Search Results – Blogs
– Blog Search Results
• Organizational News &
– Delicious
Updates
– Flickr Groups
• Clinical Guidelines
– Wikis
• Grant Opportunities – Youtube
• Journal Table of Contents – more …
• Web Searches
10. RSS Feed: Subscribing
• 1. Find a feed.
• 2. Find the RSS link .
• 3. Copy the URL or link.
• 4. Go to Google Reader.
• 5. Click on Add Subscription.
• 6. Paste in the link.
• 7. Organize the new feed into your folders or
subject structure.
11. Subscribing
• Some pages offer
buttons you can just
click on to add a feed.
• This allows you to skip
steps 2-6!
15. Step 4 (Sort Feed)
The feed
might look
like this
Manage
subscriptions
allow you to
group feeds
16. Step 5 (Sort Feed)
• Choose a topic folder or create a new folder.
• TIP: When you view a folder, you see the newest
items for the topic all integrated together.
19. Other Neat Things to Do
With RSS
• Feed from social bookmarking sites like
http://delicious.com
• Wikis
• RefWorks – RSS
• ticTOCS - http://www.tictocs.ac.uk
• Helvetireader - http://helvetireader.com/
– Firefox greasemonkey userscript
• TWU Libraries’ journal alerting service page:
http://www.twu.edu/library/alerting-service.asp
21. Twitter
Ways librarians may use Twitter
• Twitter reference
• Customer service & outreach
• Broadcast your announcements, news & events
• Ask for feedback
• Broaden your network & reach users
• Locate locals
• Know it first
24. Twitter
• Considering Twitter as part of your library’s
service? Some best practices to consider:
– Profiles
– Standards
– Consistency
– Service
– Staffing
– Evaluation
25. Wikis
• Used in academia and libraries for projects
• Collaborate with colleagues by sharing files:
PDFs, Word Documents, JPEG images, etc.
• Most wikis can be made private or public
• Library success: Best practices wiki:
• http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
• Pbwiki/PBWorks e-portfolio is an UNT project
Ex: http://porfoliotemplate.pbworks.com/
27. PBwiki e-portfolio: Student example
1. Posted on Blackboard
2. Shared link to her e-
portfolio which served as a
great example for students
3. Librarian received
reference question about
PowerPoint , so she
pushed UNT Tech Skills
tutorial:
http://www.library.unt.ed
u/library-instruction/news-
events/tech-skills-
workshop-power-point-
2007/
Building trust with students so
they ask you anything
28. Many wiki platforms
• PBworks
(The wiki formally known as PBwiki )
• Mediawiki
a. Good example:
http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/bizwiki/index.ph
p/Main_Page
b. Requirements include:
Coding knowledge and server space
c. See Wikipedia
• Wikidot
a. Add widgets
b. no advertisements on free account
c. User-friendly
• Compare many more wikis:
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
http://ask-academic.wikidot.com/meebo-widget
29. Facebook: library tools
Ex. Penn State Catalog search
application
For more applications:
1. Go to facebook
2. Search for library _
3. Click on application tab
4. Funny and practical results
For custom applications, need the “developer key”
See: http://developers.facebook.com/
30. Facebook for marketing and outreach
UNT Library examples:
“Club Willis” (created by students)
“Denton Reads”
“Facebook Live!”
“Librarians On Location” / “Librarians
Squared”
Discovery Park, and RIS pages.
Denton Reads:
One book one community project
events advertised, discussion
Librarians on Location (TWU & UNT
board enabled, and events photos
librarians met on campus, outside
libraries
32. Facebook tips for librarians
Faculty and librarians Students
Some students don’t want to be your
Keep dialogue with patrons or friends/fans get over it
students professional
Let students come to you = no stalking
If your account is both professional for friends
and personal; keep audience in mind
Advertise events and groups
Don’t pressure people. 1. Supplements other marketing efforts
Be consistent with your “friending” 2. Utilize features (ex. event pictures)
practices (some patrons or colleagues 3. Best practices (ETG group task)
but not others? )
33. Flickr, the Nudist in Your Library
• Market Your Library Events
• Book displays
• Promote Services/Collections
• Connect users
• Create community
• Virtual tour
• Marketing/outreach
• Wayfinding Map
• Expanding Instruction
• Storytelling
34. Events & Digital Collections
Thomas Memorial The Library of Congress
Book Sale Visual Collection
37. Make your Library delicious
• “Best of Sites”
• Site Sharing
• Collection Development
• Subject Guides
• Manage online resources
• Project/idea lists
40. Tools and Features
• http://delicious.com/help/tools
• http://delicious.com/help/thirdpartytools
41. Blogs
TWU Libraries Blog (Blogger) Beta Phi Mu Blog (Vox)
Features: Features:
Flexible templates Flickr uploads
Well known platform Snap (page preview)
Turn comments off/on Turn comments off/on
RSS RSS
42. Other social tools
• Tinychat (cool way to create a chat room in
seconds—good for patrons and meetings)
• LibraryThing
• Friend Feed
• YouTube
(http://www.youtube.com/ucberkeley)
• Itunes
(https://itunes.unt.edu/)
Many more…
44. Thanks for attending our presentation!
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Questions/Comments? Please contact us!
Greg Hardin Lilly Ramin Shaun Seibel
Texas Woman’s University of North Texas University of North
University Lilly.Ramin@unt.edu Texas
ghardin@twu.edu Flickr, Meebo, Twitter: Shaun.Seibel@unt.edu
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