Internet Librarian
2008
Stephanie Tetter
NOTE: Some slide presentations are posted at http://www.slideshare.net/tag/il2008
Enterprise Trends: Beyond the Simple Intranet (Stephen Abram)
Search engine results for the same search in the same city will differ in different
neighborhoods
Things to check out:
o Zoho (Zoho docs)
o Zumbra
o Ning
o Mozes
o KickApps
Learning styles
Text-based learners
o 80% of librarians are
o 20% general population is
3-dimensional learners
o Engineers!
o Like Kartoo, grokker
Zoho does Zotero (?)
U.S. is 5-7 years behind the rest of the world
o 25% of Europe sees TV on laptops
o “white label social networking” in StephensLighthouse
o US graduates 70K engineers/yr
o India graduates 400K engineers/yr
o China graduates 1.2 M engineers/yr
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o Handouts
o Content management system
o Wikis
o Blogs
o RSS
o Email updates
o Calendaring
o WSS = Windows SharePoint services (“SharePoint Lite”)
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SharePoint for Libraries (Sarah Houghton-Jan, Shannon Staley)
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Stephanie Tetter
o MOSS = high-end, complete portal
o SP is a “Swiss army knife”: individual features are not as rich as other services; what is
there works, but not individually great for wikis, blogs, etc. Google docs better than SP
document feature might be a good idea
o Sites:
o Association of the US Army
o Swatch
o Invu
o Clearspace
o Benefits
o Integration of Web 2.0
o Reduction of email attachment glut
o Removes webmaster bottlenecks
o Facilitates collaboration
o Increases communication
o Returns power over content to content owners
o San Jose decided not all content merits a SP site
o Not easy to migrate to SP
o Piloted small sites
o Those that are worthy:
 Need frequent updating
 Need group collaboration
 Other specialized information sharing
Social Media and Networked Technologies (Keynote, danah boyd)
o Net neutrality
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Three places where intervention is needed:
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She says: My research focuses on how people negotiate a presentation of self to unknown
audiences in mediated contexts. In particular, my dissertation examines how American
teenagers socialize in networked publics like MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournal, Xanga and
YouTube. I am interested in how the architectural differences between unmediated and
mediated publics affect sociality, identity and culture. My undergrad thesis focused on how
prioritization of depth cues is dependent on levels of sex hormones in the body and how this
affects engagement with virtual reality.
Internet Librarian
2008
Stephanie Tetter
o DRM (eliminate it)
o Fair Use (what does it mean? It is only a defense)
Strategic Framework for Library Automation (Marshall Breeding, Vanderbilt U)
o LJ ILS evaluation column – 7 yrs
o Library Tech Guides (librarytechnology.org)
o Demise of legacy ILS model, new vision blends ILS w/collaborative and social computing)
o The best technology is mostly invisible
o Web 1.0
o Static
o Silos
o 1-way communication
o Web 2.0
o Social computing
o Dynamic content
o Interactive
o Collaborative
o Focus on user, community
o RSS delivery
o Blogs, wikis, IM, SMS, Skype, podcasting
o Re-mix opportunities
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o Change: Z39.50 is library-specific, we need to get with the world
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o Technologies: web services, XML APIs, Ajax (asynchronous JavaScript & XML),
microformats, OpenSearch vs. SRU, SRW
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o Music, audio, video
o YouTube, Flickr, facebook, etc
o Library 2.0 (Michael Casey, application of Web 2.0 concepts to libraries)
o Library blogs
o RSS
o Wikis
o Enriched catalogs
o User participation
o Web 2.0 is already at 4+, silos are not yet integrated in libraries, with strategic
infrastructure that libraries rely on for automation of operations and delivery of content
o Silos
o Catalog
o Library blog
o Library website
o Web 3.0
o 2.0 + Artificial intelligence
o Semantic web
o 2.0 + enterprise computing
o Libraries’ problems:
o No way to integrate 2.0 apps w/library content
o Can push users out of library web presence
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o Isolated from mission of delivering content and users
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o Sustainability (dead blogs)
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o Uncoordinated matrix of data/users
o Lack of interoperability
o Lack of identity management (if you want to comment on the library blog, is your
identity authenticated by lib. card or is there a whole different identity?
o Evolution heading toward fully collaborative model, “organized fabric of
interrelated web services”
o ILS systems
o Fragmented set of tools
o Largely 1.0
o Next0generation catalogs are band-aids helping us move toward 2.0
o Legacy OPAC characteristics
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Overly complex
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Different interfaces
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Old look and feel
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Not intuitive
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Non-federated searching
Single point of entry
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Vanderbilt using Primo
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Queens Borough using AquaBrowser
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Beyond MARC metadata
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Search inside the book
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Comprehensive search
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o Redefining library catalogs
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Digital = with print
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Entering post-metadata search area
o Re-thinking ILS
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Front end is evolving
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Back end is STUCK!
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E-content is managed outside the ILS
o Disintegration
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ILS
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Open URL link
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Federated searching
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ERM (why is this duplicative of Acquisitions module?)
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Repositories/digital collection platforms
o SOAs (service oriented applications or architecture)
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Underlying data repositories
o Need inherent design for resource sharing, we need to discard traditional
modules and become fulfillment-oriented
o “I didn’t need to teach my daughter how to buy clothes on lands end”
o It isn’t the USER’s problem where a book is or how it gets to them, it is a
FULFILLLMENT issue
o OLE (Open Library Environment) project
Funding from Mellon
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Duke U leading (also KU, Lehigh, others)
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Internet Librarian
2008
Stephanie Tetter
Twitter & how the “Twitties” use it for keeping up – Michael Sauers and Christa Burns,
Nebraska Library Commission
o Search twitter.com for IL2008
o Check on Twhirl, Twit This, Twitter Vista Gadget
o NLC_reference
o Bbctech
o MarsPhoenix
o LAFD
o BarackObama, all twittering
o Friendfeed aggregator
o Flock (browser)
What’s New is RSS etc (Steven Cohen)
Tinyurl/ ILwhatshot
Readers – nothing new (feedly, firefox, snowl, Google Reader
Lifestreaming – tumblr, friendfeed
Tools
o Feed sidebar (firefox extension)
o Libworm – database of library-oriented journals, blogs, etc
o Techmeme
o Open Congress (blog) tracks any legislation or legislator
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o Twitter search
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o Youtube.com/rss/search/xxxx.rss
Internet Librarian
2008
Stephanie Tetter
o Justia Dockets: federal court suits/feed
o EBay feed
o Del.icio.us “tools” feed
o Page2RSS can create a feed for any static feed. Updates only 1/day
o Update scanner (firefox extension)
o Screengrab.com
o Cool Iris – makes new browser
o Missing auctions
o Invisible-auctions.com
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Other good session: Pecha Kucha
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