Aaron Schmidt
Cliff Landis, Valdosta State Library
Aaron: MySpace Invaders
- Owned by NewsCorp
- Not the best web site ever. can be hard to use
- All about eyeballs & selling ads
- Bad design rules
- Examples
- Thomas Ford Memorial Library
- Denver PL Teen Department
- UIUC Undergraduate Library
- Liberty Librarian
- Searched for MySpace on YouTube for what teens think about MySpace
- MySpace Commercial
- MySpace Addicts
- MySpace angles
- taking photos of your self looking down at yourself
- Opprotunities
- “tips & tricks” class
- class for parrents
- historic figure / book character project
- Make friends
- MySpace Bulletins
- Your LIbrary MySpace
- be authentic
- give up control
- ave fun
- consider who you want to be
- include a song and video
- MeeboMe widget
- MySpace in your library
- do you censor it?
- resistant admin
- “Decoding myspace” article
- mroe danger @ home than on myspace
- is it a fad?
- yes
- but learn and experiment
- MyOwnCafe
- SE MA Lib Sys
- Less than threes
- <3
Cliff: In Your Facebook: Using Facebook in Academic Libraries
- what questions should we be asking
- what is the nature of this technology
- how are my patrons using this technology
- how and I use this tech to benefit my patrons
- traditional services
- innovative services
- how will this tech improve my service
- how should we represent ourselves
- what is the nature of the beast
- profiles as identity performance
- dynamic and static
- social netowrking
- connections between individuals create a network
- groups and identity
- 4th floor Odum library bathroom users (active)
- Odum library is only good for one thing and that thing is facebook (group identitiy)
- I like to hang out in the library after hours (failed)
- Some people only join a group to identify with that group
- Image representation (the profile)
- 1-on-1 communication
- communication in groups
- writing on walls
- sharing pictures
- linking to other social networks and web sites
- how to use to benefit students/patrons
- traditional services
- reference
- consultations
- groups
- marketing
- photos
- flyers
- events
- instruction
- groups
- link to traditional resources
- innovative services
- acquistions
- ask the students what they want in the library
- “ubiquitous librarianship”
- using students public info to meet their information needs
- Improve services
- the user-centric approach
- “the user is not broken”
- Point of need service
- effective marketing
- using the market that is already in place
- Choosing your identity
- how should we represent ourselves
- the living library
- Kresge library
- Tisch library
- the librarian collective
- UIUC undergrad Library
- Maryland Engineering Library
- the librarians ourselves
- david free, micharl stephens, brian matthers
- Ask a librarian group
- Institutional profiles are being closed down so represent yourself as an individual
- what if your identity is chosen for you?
- profiles
- groups
- events
- Hide and seek in the Odum library
- Who “owns the library”
- we think of it as “mine” since we work there
- the university likes to this it’s theirs since it’s part of the institution
- the students think it’s theirs since it’s for their use
- take the compliment and work with the students to get the word out about the library
