Technology Conference 09 workshop

Stuck in the social web

http://lib.sdstate.edu/wight/socialweb/


Background information

Libraries and the social web
Low cost
Low tech
One more tool Not a replacement neccessarily
OCLC Report - Libraries and Social Networking (Huge report free on-line Google)

What need will the service fill?
Who will use the service?
What will be required for the user: Speed, Memory
What publicity/marketing will be implemented?
Who will be responsible for maintenance?
What is a reasonable time period for trial?
What would be evidence of success?

Evaluate community needs
Hold focus groups (make sure to include NON library users)
Be realistic about the time investment

Lib using wiki for reserves
Wiki Matrix most useful

Facebook add (25$) you can target to a specific group

Find a librarian and make them your friend. Push it at student and faculty venues\

Library applications for facebook (facebook group)

Technology Conference Workshop

Hear the Voices of web 2.0 in the classroom
Wendy Wolfe

Grocery stores, have all been rennovated in the last year. Our Grocery stores are changing faster than our classrooms

Technonolgy has increased in last 15 years. Fast text messages, "17,000 text message" 1 every 2 minutes every hour they're awake.

"we need to bring our expections to them, not 'dumbing' them down"

Today's learners they DO want to learn. But it must be ...
Experiential
Interactive
Authentic

Our goals for students : Sage on the stage or guide on the side - it might be a combo.

Is Google making us stupid? (how our brains are being re-programmed)
Movie on UTube

XtraNormal

Digital Story Telling (Digital campfire)

Cartoons - graphic novels.
Cartoon Generators (Events in world history as graphic novels) Students generate them?
Read write think
ToonDoo can now keep it private.
new feature - toon book. (url access to Schools in Beta)

Avatars
Vocki

Movies Animoto: educators (send a note - hi - takes a while) access is good access for 6 months.

Unused accounts are deleted after 1.5 years
Podcasting Free stuff on Itunes Itunes U. Garage band (in Mac)
Audacity for PC - Gcast or Gabcast

Don't battle. (online conference)

Library Technology Confernece - Workshop

Reading for Digital Natives
Carol Soma Blue Earth Area Schools

Hand out of power point.

1. Baby boomers - control things now. 1946-64
2. Gen X
3. Gen Y
4. Digtial Natives
5. Their visual cortex is 20% larger. Their brains have changed - See and remember. 909% retention. (Digital immigrants retain 60 %) Pre-digital retain 10%
6. Mapping of reading (DI)
7. Mapping of digital native reader The difference is that there are fewer eye movements.
Tend to ignore things that don't "jump out at them"
8. Target colors. Burnt orange, neon green, and red (ignore black and white)
9-- Started listening and the notes are great!

Technology Conference 09 - Keynote2

Tech Trends and Libraries : Eric Lease Morgan.

Shares what is in his head and surveys the things going on around him.

Crux:" its not the What that we do (that is core) it is the how that must change for our profession to thrive and development. " The opportunities are many.

See technology => abstract it out to at least one level
Not the techonology but the larger principles to see the trends

Trends:

• Smaller pieces of information expected (factoids)
• Mobile technology (Kindle, cell phones, ipods ets) Want their web on these devices.
• Semantic web is reality: Making lots of links between information and machine readable. What more able to happen: if linked data is readable - relationships will be more likely in ways that humans may or may not be able to find and do it much faster, thoroughly, and effectively. (not neccesarrily better or more authoritatively) But eventually that might be true. Bell curve of connections. WALDON example: Connections at one end or the other might be esoteric, and the center is "acknowledged" connections, but the trend is that connections at one end of the other are producing better and better connections that humans might not find.
• Library created technology (MARC -revolutionary because it was before relational databases, and xml ; Z3950 broadcast searching) are being superseeded over by new technologies
• search is more important than browse. (Though the concept of browse is still imprtant) more like this - not about high precision results its more about relevance. (conext is increasingly importnat matched with keywords). (Small number want the high level) Donughts mainstreet portland
• Wisdom of the crowd (Web designed to withstand nuclear blast) No central anything. This has trickled down. (Tagging, Wikipedia, - not really about authority) Learning to trust a bit more.

How can Libraries use these to accomplish our goals?

• Don't be concerned about details (look at big picture) Journalism is going through the same trouble. Journals to Elelctronic.
• Principles and practices of libraries are still vital. (collection, organization, preservation, providing access)
• WE have more competition than ever (its now fasionable to be "into" information).

Our time needs to be put into R&D and "Playing" Act acedmically : hypothesising, solving problems, sharing and starting over.

Putting core principles into practice.

Collecting:

• Figure out a way to systematically collect all the "free" stuff. You can still use your collection development policy - just change the what.

Organization:

• MARC is not the best - Try XML other can understand it. Wisdom of crowd or computer analysis of full text might help us.

Access:

• Database come to mind, but indexers might help us more they are better at finding despite structure of the database. - this makes searching more powerful.
• Go beyond just giving them the "think" - maybe our job should extend to adding value through our intimate knowledge of person and tools for using the content. A book is not just read - it might be contrasted, compared, trace ideas, share, analyse, summarize ...
• Data sets might help us understand the pieces.

Demonstration:

Harvest from the net to create collections (My library) DOAJ (oai)

Internet Archive (public domain content) it is free. (before 1923)

http://infomotions.com/alex/

Can provide services against an index, but also against the text

http://archive.org

Technology Conference 09 -workshop

What's Cooking at the UofM lab

Current Snapshot Jason Roy Head Digital Collections
Images: scan photos (2001 - )
Adding video and digital objects, rich media, audio, and making it more user friendly: Curatorial approach (top down) and User managed – Users will be able to upload, manage and deliver their own digital collections> (authorized to load their stuff) Using a “non-cataloging” approach. Minimal required metadata-. Promise to keep it long term- then push it to flick, or facebook.
Digital conservancy (D Space)
Institutional repository for faculty and department can store work. Open access, preservation, increased visibility. This is a SILO system how do they share with Image repository. (Google indexed)
Finding Aids (DLXS)
Centralize access to finding aids (centralized repository)Robust search environment. But same delivery format!! Awkward No Google indexing. 89% came through google first. How do people actually use “finding aids” how would we change them to make it usable?”
USING Fedora underneath and Druple on top. Solar for indexing (RICH MEDIA first and then looking to add the (UDC) and the (ARCHIVES).
The point is that the delivery mechanism may change, the promise is to the storage
Digital Preservation Strategist: policy on what Promises can be made and proven. What are the Library Strengths in this approach. Good at finding and cataloging.

Staff: Scanning creating digital content.
Support the silo framework? How freezing and cutting .
Working at a Rich Media Project


Shane Nackerud. WEb Services Coordinator

New version of the Assignment Calculator
Current version (starting and end date) and then it breaks it down.Adding assignment types change due dates (to reflect actual dates), edit step titles and notes, can add and delete steps. switch steps.
Can create a new template with a shareable URL. They can save and republish)

Mobile library home library
25% have mobile web devices What do they want? Can’t have everything what do we choose?API AlephX and PrimoX and MetalibX-server API and SFX
Future: Text messaging for call numbers, notifications, due datesSmart Commons seating availability Directions (maps)

Library Course Page (in addition to Course Lib)
LIbData 3 ways of publishing guides CourseLib provides library pages for courses where we intentionally build them. (unscaleable)
Use API’s to generate pages “on the fly” Seeks to auto generate a library page for every course. (in ALPHA version)

Resource Recommendations
Affinity Based recommendations
tc.grad.gs.psy.phd campus.role.unit.program.degree Can have multiple strings
If they log in it records the "strings" that use what databases. Allows for recommendations.

Q:A

Technology Conference 2009

Keynote: Stacey Greenwell
Head of info commons U. of Kentucky
Things that did and DID NOT work.
Info commons = (1999) Integration of tech and library.
Is learning commons the same as info commons?

Learning commons may be the evolution of info commons. LC may be more focused on products
Info commons – well equipped with technology. People can get help with tech and library.

learning commons

• expands available tech.
• Unifies the technology
• Expands infastructure
• Planning: Timing and funding has to be right.
• Use resources available: architects, interior designers, etc.
  Focus groups, vitits

Do your research.
Call it what you can market. Don't have to call it IC.
Services you can offer: Library help, IT help, (IT help left after 2 year) This seems to be a trend. (Make campus help desk number ring to the number) Make more tech available : mac lab etc. Power bar (place where they can "check out" equipment to re-power their devices.) Student computing lab, AV services - check out laptops is still popular.

Amenities: Canopy work island (herman miller furniture) (mall kiosk) don't know where the "front is" Caper Chair (15 year waranty) Some tall tables ( guest open access). Everything rools. Lounge chairs, Moveable white boards. - markers are an expense, but it makes it creative and "fun". Everything Old is new again. Don't be afraid to use old stuff.

Food and beverage: Put in a lounge (pop machines and candy. People spend more time if they can eat.
Video windows? Helped to keep things "fun" projectors (six)

Flat panel displays dont work for "signs"
USE Cool sinage. (floor signs)

Special Events (Birthday parties) (video games)guitar hero and racing : Makeovers! Good will thing. Get fun pictures made. Props and green screen.

No Shushing sign.
Library Stats Databases.
Write press releases for all kinds of things.
Promotion on U-Tube.
Work with Student Government

Hublets (IT using soft chairs in labs)

23 Thing

Things I've Learned

• Things I've done since beginning this program.
  
  
• Helped to set up a Meebo reference chat on our website (Debuting in beta for National Library Week)
• Help create "Read badges" for National Library week
• This will lead to a re-designed web page some day
• Found a plethora of fun and exciting ways to engage visitors to our library site including the possibilities of a visual "new book shelf"
• Kept up weekly with a blog
• Opened a new personal blog and actually gave out the address
• Figured out RSS feeds and Feed readers - added friends and professional blogs
  
• Checked my Feed reader twice a week
• Found wonderful old movies on YouTube
• Witnessed the excitement and engagement with our library staff increase 200%
• Saw students getting excited about our ideas as well
• I think that is a lot of success!

Favorite Things?

• The Flicker Name thing was great
• I liked Shelfari
• I was so glad to finally find and understand Feed readers!
  

How did you connect with others doing the 23 Things On a Stick?

• I connected with colleagues in unexpected ways. I gained knowledge and energy from their discussions.
  
• I also feel like I will be making more connections in the future through Meebo, my blog, my feed reader and much more.
  

Were there any take-a-ways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you?

• I was surprised at how much time it took at the beginning, but It also shocked me at how quickly things moved the more I did it.
  
• I'm surprised that I want to include some of these things in my daily life and that I actually want to.
• I never thought of Delicious tags and Blogs as a way to research. Boy I feel dumb, but wiser!
  

What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or content?

• The only thing I could suggest would be to make the links open in new windows. I was forever closing the window and having to re-do. I got used to right clicking and opening in a new window or tab.
  

If we offered a 23 More Things On a Stick program like this in the future would you participate?

• Definitely!

How would you describe your learning experience in one word or in one sentence, so we could use your words to promote 23 Things On a Stick learning activities to others?

23 things on a stick was the single most effective and energizing learning experience I have had to date.