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Michael going for a strike
23
Apr 2007
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What I learned at Computers in Libraries
23
Apr 2007
Unfortunately I was unable to attend the videoblogging post-conference (a.k.a. The Dave & Dave show) but I was lucky enough to attend the informal version of this training a few evenings earlier.
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Flickrwhacking 2.0
19
Apr 2007
Sometimes at conference the ridiculous becomes sublime, insane suggestions become ideas, and ideas become accepted by others. This is the shortened story of one of those ideas. (Sorry, you’ll have to ask one of the responsible parties directly if you want the foll story.)
Many of us have heard of Googlewhacking, the game in which you need to search Google using two English, non-proper-name, words and retrieve only one result. (Trust me, it is not as easy as it sounds.) In that spirit, I came up with Flickrwhacking, the idea of searching Flickr for two English, non-proper-name, words and finding only one photo. For example, search Flickr for pony and monocle, and you’ll have a Flickrwhack. (Flag on the play! I uploaded this photo so it doesn’t count. That’s cheating.)
In the spirit of my cheating I call this game Flickrwhacking 2.0 because there is already a Flickrwhack pool that you can find on Flickr. The trouble is, that game has you assigning a unique tag and if you’re in control that’s hardly as much fun.
So, I hereby declare the games open, and let the Flickrwhacking begin.
Note: I did my best and I can’t find a previous mention online of the game in this form. If I am not the first to come up with this please let me know and I will correct the record. Thanks to Jason, David, Michelle, and Meredith for their input and inspiration.
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CIL2007: The Library of the Future
18
Apr 2007
Louise Parker Berry
- Three Principles
- a covenant w/ our patrons
- stay ahead of expectations
- be the first of the new libraries, no the last of the old
- Two Goals
- design and build an absolutely fantastic new library
- use tech wherever it will make us more efficient and effective and however is will meet our patron’s demand
- One Rule
- Tolerate Uncertainty
- Continuing vision
- eternal values
- new technology
Alan Kirk Gray
- Architect of the new library
- [maps and plans of the new library]
- Green building
- .5 energy of typical building
- using ground water for heating
- [artists renditions]
Peter Gisolfi
- The fine print
- just a cute little library in SW CT
- your mileage may vary
- you may legitimately believe there is a good reason for you to do things differently
- not going to slap a layer of tech over an existing plan
- Four principles
- it’s not our library
- take real risks
- failure IS an option
- get it right, finally, ant then keep changing to stay ahead.
- Planning horizon graphic (pyramid chart)
- OODA
- Observe
- Orient
- Decide
- Act
- Out library is a story
- what is our voice?
- “the good writer treats each unit individually, developing them one by one” -John Garndner
- Tech layers
- Infrastucture
- Admin
- staff
- parton indirect
- patron direct
- p2p
- RFID Materials Handling System
- 3M &FKI
- There are legit alternatives
- Drive for show, putt for dough
- self check works for the benefit of the patron
- Materials handling can have….
- get a good RFID system
- Skip the RFP process
- have each competitor deisgn to your needs
- more important process = less valuable RFP is
- if you do it right
- no tech services or circ back office
- no cataloging
- workflow managers, not clerks
- a small workspace to deal with expectations
- in other words
- outsource everything
- thought experiment
- what if no book trucks?
- would it be full of knowledge workers?
- metrics
- active item back on shelf in 20 min
- inventory turns per item doubled
- cost per circ halved
- time from order to first circ: 18 hours
- annual circ per FTP: 40,000
- long tail
- we want a short (support) tail
- it’s the supply chain stupid
- fast second order
- direct order and hip to patron
- delivery from distributor same day
- let’s not stop there
- everyone in front of desks
- circ staff become reader’s advisors
- info staff are at remote ref points
- tech staff work in partnership w/ patrons
- we’ll have a virtual library too
- Not ref desk, concierge desk
- eveolution of ref services
- IM
- Video chat
- WebEx
- 24/7 local remote at off hours
- Small office / mobile office
- a.k.a. “small Kinkos”
- collaborative spaces
- smart study rooms
- conference room
- community room
- MANY POWER OUTLETS!
- Still needs some help
- [list of things here]
- no
- security
- gaming
- “extra” patron data ports
- no PCs in teen area
- Coming not soon enough
- VublQ
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CIL2007: Catalogs/OPACs for the Future
18
Apr 2007
Roy Tennant, California Digital Library & Tim Spalding, LibraryThing
Tim: The Fun Opac
Tim: The Fun Opac
- OPACs should have funability
- “The library is the most fun you can have with your pants on”
- Bring the OPAC front and center, don’t separate it from the Web site
- Separate because we’re ashamed of the OPAC
- Inbound links don’t go to records but to the homepage or a timeout screen
- Link outwards & people will come to you
- Why not link to commercial services? Your patrons are already aware of them.
- No benefit from being a Mall
- Link around, make everything clickable
- “massive linking”
- Dress up your OPAC
- covers
- Syndetics
- Amazon.com
- Free open repository of covers needs to be created
- link to Wikipedia via ISBNs
- Put your data out there
- you’re not the only one who knows how to work with your data
- librarians don’t have a monopoly on fun
- Feeds
- of new books
- from a search
- subject headings
- People don’t want your content, they want their content
- Blog widgets
- They want to tell people what they’re reading
- LibraryThing widget
- What I’m reading now v. random
- Random way more popular
- How much money do I owe my library?
- Library Thing Tage Consortium
Roy: Catalogs for the Future
- Refuse to use the “O word”
- what future?
- Demise of the catalog at the local level
- ILS still needed
- New world order
- discovery disaggregated form the ILS
- OpwnWorldCat
- Metasearch
- Others
- [diagram slide about worldcat, openworldcat & worldcat local]
- Why this makes sense
- users typically want to fine everything they can on a topic
- prefer to search in one place if possible
- most ILSs lack cool new features
- WorldCat Identities
- FictionFinder
- Needle Library, Hystack College
- made up example
- finding tool, not an OPAC
- Next Gen ILS
- refocused on library operations
- discrete components that interoperate through rapid protocols
- able to work well with other systems
- Upload to other systems
- expose APIs
- inexpensive, scaleable, & easy maintenance
- [Pines Evergreen System]
- Next Gen Finding Tools
- integrate access to wide variety of sources
- Able to use info from other systems as well as provide it (via protocols)
- offer sophisticated features
- relevance
- faceted browsing
- not a library catalog
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Megan Fox, Simmons College, (fox@simmons.edu) web.simmons.edu/~fox/mobile
- Patrons want and demand mobile on-demand services
- Mobile Market
- [I lost the stats I typed in...]
- Latest Devices
- iPods
- tablets
- PSP
- Blackberry
- m300 smart watch
- Treo
- Samsung B470
- Nokia N93
- HTC S710
- iPhone
- MyOrigo
- HTC Advantage and Shift
- Ultra Mobile PC – Q1 Ultra
- Mobile Web / Transcoded Web
- .mobi
- mobilelearn
- winksite
- volantis
- roundpoint
- mobiSiteGalore
- Freemont PL has a .mobi version
- zinadoo
- NYT
- National Weather Services
- Digg
- PubMed
- Hoovers
- Ball State University (Looks like Gopher)
- Mobile Optimized OPACs
- III AirPac
- LibraryThing
- Ready Reference On the Go
- Tucors
- handango
- dictionaries
- almanac
- Mobile Answers
- eBooks & eAudio
- Transcoding
- Optimizing for the mobile environment on the fly
- May remove content so somewhat controversial
- Blogger on the Go
- mobilicio.us
- Databases on the Run
- Factiva
- LexisNexis
- Mobilize your content
- via RSS then to SMS
- MobiFeeds
- xFruits
- feedbeep
- hubdog
- GoogleReader
- Text onto the iPod
- Mobile Search
- 4info
- Yahoo!
- AOLMobile
- Ask
- [Presented on this earlier in the conference]
- SMS for content
- GoogleSMS
- Yahoo
- AskMeNow
- Biblioteche di Roma (answer w/in 48 hours, ugh!)
- 411
- Meriam Webster
- Life’s a Pitch – 1st chap via SMS
- Harper Teen
- Citysearch
- SMS for communication
- Simmons College Reference Services
- Altrama (SMS Virtual Reference)
- teleflip
- gizmoSMS
- MagicMessage
- MobileU
- AIRBaruch
- Class in Hand
- Text Feedback Link
- Feedback Meter Link
- Mobile audio & multimedia
- downloadable audio
- mobile tours – guide by cell
- instruction
- story hours
- video tours
- mobile tv
- mobile YouTube
- mobile Second Life
- Ball State University training videos & promotional videos
- Video downlaods
- Applications for staff
- Stats – bar code readers
- Sirsi PocketCirc
- Wireless Workstation
- What’s Next?
- txt & video ads (you must approve & get a discount on your bill for viewing)
- MasterCard & Visa via your phone
- Hardware displays
- glasses
- eink/epaper
- project to wall
- ZenZui
- Microsoft Live Labs Deepfish
- Photo2Search
- Thrrum
- mobile visual interactions – qipit
- spoken interactions – GotVoice
- GPS Location Interaction
- [showing pics from my Library Signage flickr pool!]
John Van Oudenaren, Senior Advisor, World Digital Library, Library of Congress (jvou@loc.gov)
- Vision
- Digital library of mostly original materials from cultures from around the world & to make it available
- Objectives
- promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness
- provide a resource for educators that matches the needs of a global digital world
- acquire rare and unique content of interest to scholars and the general public
- Existing projects
- American Memory
- Bilateral projects w/ other countries
- Partners
- UNESCO
- National libraries and other cultural institutions
- Bibliotecha Alexandrea
- Nat Lib of Egypt
- Nat Lib of Brazil
- Russian State Librart
- National Library of Russia
- Others
- Tech community
- Yahoo
- Apple
- Standford university
- Dates & Milestones
- June 2005: WDL Proposed
- November 2005: Google gives $3 for project planning
- 2006: agreements w/ partner institutions
- December 2006: site mockup and proposal to UNESCO
- 2007: Agreement with UNESCO
- October 2007: WDL Prototype unveiled at UNESCO
- September 2008: Planned full-scale launch
- Implementation
- Not just a big Web site
- three pillars
- content acquisition
- construction of a sustainable network for production and distribution of content
- the site: www.worlddigitallibrary.org
- Content Acquisition
- work w/ partners to digitize content in places where little or no scanning is being done
- bring to light the hidden treasures
- maintain and build upon existing scanning operations
- Cairo
- Rio
- Moscow
- St. Petersburg
- mobile scanning team in Siberia
- establish additional operations
- pursue additional methods of acquisition
- Construction of network
- both as technical infrastructure and a community of institutions, scholars, curators, linguists and technologists
- Nodes
- digitization
- cataloging
- translation
- editorial
- distribution
- central sites & mirrored sites
- The Web Site
- prototype under development
- multilingual
- high quality user experience
- ability to search and browse
- multi-format
- manuscripts
- maps
- photos
- rare books
- sound & video
- 3-D representations
- special features
- educational content
- social networking features
- adjustments to developing country conditions (i.e. low bandwidth & mobile devices)
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CIL2007: Learning with Blogs and Wikis
17
Apr 2007
Meredith Farkas & Michelle Boule (http://michellemeredith.pbwiki.com/Learning%20with%20Blogs%20and%20Wikis)
- What is a blog
- frequently updated page with posts presented in reverse-chronological order
- What’s cool about them
- don’t need to know HTML
- easy to update
- don’t need server space
- outputs RSS
- How are blogs used in education?
- Course management system
- faculty communication w/ students
- class news
- course reflection
- reflective learning
- space for dialog & feedback
- language/writing practice
- alternative to discussion forum
- [examples shown available on presentation URL above]
- What is a wiki
- a web site anyone in a group can create and edit w/o HTML
- What’s cool about it?
- don’t need HTML
- quick updating
- everyone can add their 2 cents
- view page history and track changes
- How can wikis be used in education?
- course management system
- stimulate class discussion
- group projects
- student space to build identity and portfolio of work
- Blogs / Wikis cage match
- b: more structured w: less structured
- b: ownership w: egalitarian
- b: best for chronological order w: knowledgebases, documents, directories
- b: lends itself to reflective writing w: great for working in groups
- b: more pressure to post w: have to trust your students
- Five Weeks to a Social Library
- “The first free, grassroots, completely online course devoted to
teaching librarians about social software and how to use it in their
libraries.” - Model
- 40 participants
- small group weekly chats
- sync & async presentations
- weekly activities
- participants blog & coment
- final project: implement one tool in your library
- Why?
- continuing education needed
- conference attendance dificult
- One-day workshop not enough
- many online classes require expensive tools
- Drupal
- allowed each student to have a blog
- each post listed on central page
- add-ons like chat rooms
- Drupal creators have control over the site
- many RSS options
- Blogging to reflect on learning
- blogging to get feedback
- blogging to create a record
- Media Wiki
- runs wikipedia
- common in libraries
- lots of documentation
- wikis for directories
- wikis for quick collaborative pages
- wikis for building a personal space
- Steal this idea
- don’t have to teach in 5 weeks
- don’t have to use the same tools
- don’t have to cover the same topics
- do need to provide for reflection of experiment
- do need to allow for many conversations
- do need to use tools that are easy
- do need to be flexible
- do need to hve an open process
- do need multiple modes of learning (audio, video, etc)
- What participants said…
- Tips for blogs in education
- provide documentation and/or training
- keep comments open
- blog to start dialogues
- don’t try to control discussions
- allow for unpopular views
- be willing to change based on feedback
- remember that some people are uncomfortable w/ public writing
- Tips for wikis in education
- training often required
- create a sandbox for experimentation
- wikis can get messy
- don’t control too much
CIL2007: Project Planning the 2.0 Way
17
Apr 2007
Nicole Engard
- Time to start a new project, what do you do?
- set up a meeting with everyone involved
- start of list of tasks onto calendar
- assign tasks, put on document
- communication via phone & e-mail attachments
- This doesn’t work
- everyone knows a little, but no one knows everything
- A Jenkins we use a blog
- each project has a blog
- any staff can add to any blog
- Then there’s the issue of finding information down the road
- Can you find the e-mail of a decision made a year ago?
- Solution: blogs
- web-bases & full-text searchable
- archived & backed up
- visible to all staff, no one is left out
- fewer e-mails
- conversational format
- date & time stamps
- ability to link to relevant pages & comments
- What does the staff think?
- project section of the intranet is the favorite part
- cut down on clutter in inbox
- great having everything in one place
- helped put everything in perspective for end-of-year report
- Project is complete, now what?
- store on shared drive?
- add links on intranet?
- store them in your e-mail?
- print them out?
- Now, a wiki
- all policies and procedures on wiki
- full text searchable
- archived
- visible to all staff
- history of changes
- link to relevant pages & comments
- sound familiar?
- made all staff feel included
- “better than the old way”
- IT staff now documents in the wiki
- no more lost files
- [Live demo]
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Darlene Fichter, University of Saskatchewan
- Definitions
- web application that uses content from multiple sources to create a new source
- uses APIs or RSS
- term comes from pop music
- cool new breed of application on the web
- Not everyone likes the term
- IBM very interested in the concept for inside the enterprise
- today’s playground
- Example
- Frappr: People + Google Maps
- Mashup ecosystem
- open data
- open set of services
- small pieces loosely joined
- Implications
- fastest growing ecosystem
- don’t need anyone’s approval to provide a new API to the Internet operating systems
- DIY Programming
- 5 minute customization of applications
- no longer need a techno-elite to do it
- It’s Legos!
- Examples
- Zip-code lookup using google maps
- library route map for deliveries
- day’s popular photos, links and news
- newsmap
- reveals underlying patterns in the news
- Earthquake
- USGS & Google Maps
- Book Carousel
- ChicagoCrime.org
- Captioner
- Color Pickr
- Housing Maps
- PlaceOpedia
- NetVibes / SuprGlu
- Group maps for Online Communities
- Live Plasma
- Weather Bomb
- McMaster Library – 5000 aerial photos & google maps
- Pittsburg University Library
- Yahoo! Pipes
- Scopus and Web of Sciences
- publications by their faculty
- output one RSS feed
- Facts & Figures
- 1799 mashups
- +3/day
- Types of mashups pie chart
- Mashup Matrix
- Mashup typology
- presentation
- client-side data
- client-side software
- server-side software
- server-side data
- Where to start
- point, lick & publish
- Google My Maps
- APIs/Web Services
- get an idea
- get a developer token
- read the fine print about use
- Community Walk
- Learn from Others
- Western Springs History
- just do it
- lib-web-cats
- directory by Marshal Breeding
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