Library Technology Reports articles from September 2007

Library Technology Reports archives from September 2007

Acknowledgements
September 1, 2007... This issue of Library Technology Reports is based on issues, trends, and technologies explored at my Tame the Web blog, my work with the students and faculty of Dominican University's Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and the...

Presence in the 2.0 World
September 1, 2007... As libraries synchronize their services to the Web 2.0 world, there are some issues we as a profession need to reconsider in light of changing user expectations. Librarians have traditionally held a gatekeeper role for information, which meant...

Participation in a 2.0 World
September 1, 2007... Participatory. Open. Playful Transparent. Make these part of your motto, your vision, and build services and staff with them in mind. My hat is off to the libraries that create teams--made up of employees from all levels--for planning, that...

The Ongoing Web Revolution
September 1, 2007... The Web has changed. It's rebooted and become more engaging, interactive, and participatory. We're still in the midst of that change as media, big business, academic institutions, and other entities grapple with what it means to live in a time...

Tools from "Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software" Revisited
September 1, 2007... In "Web 2.0 & Libraries," I presented five 2.0 tools that libraries were using--blogs, RSS, instant messaging, wikis, and Flikr. (1) The choice of these five tools was based on my work with Jenny Levine and our Social Tools and Libraries...

Technology Trends for a 2.0 World
September 1, 2007... Trends in social software and customized, participatory technologies are changing user expectations. Libraries must, in turn, adjust to meet those needs. To enable libraries to adjust, I advocate for librarians to be trendspotters. Each year,...

Social Networking Services
September 1, 2007... As detailed throughout this report, social networking technologies afford users the chance to interact, share themselves, and create content. Social networking services (SNS), as defined by Wikipedia, are "primarily web based and provide a...

Social Video: Videoblogging & YouTube
September 1, 2007... In the past year, viewing and creating video for the Web skyrocketed to the top of many Internet users' lists. The popularity of YouTube, Google Video, and other sharing sites, coupled with the ease of using video technology, has unleashed the...

Tagging & Social Bookmarking
September 1, 2007... Tagging is another commonality of Web 2.0 tools. Social bookmarking extends tagging and organization into the realm of SNS, with tags, feeds, and RSS subscriptions included. A useful definition of the technologies highlighted in this chapter...

Messaging in a 2.0 World: Twitter & SMS
September 1, 2007... Messaging has changed as well in the time since the last "Web 2.0 & Libraries," a little over a year. One major change was the advent of Meebo and Meebo Me, described in chapter 1. Others include the introduction of Twitter (a...

Best Practices for Social Software in Libraries
September 1, 2007... We've revisited some older tools and looked at some newer ones. In concluding, instead of a list of best practices for each specific tool, I thought it would be useful to focus on broader best practices in a 2.0 world. Use these as a guide to...

Resources: Librarian's Reading List 2.0 (Updated & Revised)
September 1, 2007... Librarian's Book List Anderson, Chris. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More. Hyperion, 2006. Beck, John C., & Mitchell Wade. Got Game: How the Garner Generation Is Reshaping Business Forever. Harvard...