Library 2.0

Events at the Caledon Library, an affiliate of the Second Life Library 2.0 July Book Discussion , July 15th, 2-4pm SLT Whitehorn Memorial Library, Caledon Victoria City http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20VictoriaCity/43/209/23 The July book of the Month at the Caledon library is The Island of Doctor Moreau by Mr H.G. Wells. The discussion will be led by Mr Dominico Benelli, of Caledon This book is a dark 19th century fantasy of what might result if the (then very controversial) practice of vivisection were carried to an extreme, and a moral contenplation of the nature of human-ness. But, because it is by Wells, it is also stirring tale of adventure. In the 21st century, it is again being read as a parable of what it means when science experiments with genetics. Copies of the work may be had at the library, or found in the Aetheric Edition, at the following locale http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/wells/hg/w45is/ ~~~~~~~~ Etiquette Collection Ball, for Bastille Day, July 14th, 5-8pm http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Carntaigh/84/157/23 Le Bal-musette de la liberte, l’egalite et la civilite July the Fourteenth, Two Thousand and Seven Five o’Clock to to Eight o’Clock in the evening, SLT Coughton Court, Duchy of Carntaigh, Caledon Carntaigh http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Carntaigh/84/157/23 This ball will introduce the Caledon Library’s *Ellen Throckmorton Riel Memorial Etiquette Collection*, which honours the memory of Grandmother of the Duchesses of both Loch Avie and Carntaigh. The Collection will be employed for the edification of Caledon for the Fall and Winter Social Seasons. The date of the ball, July 14th, is also Bastille Day: “Bastille Day, or the Fourteenth of July, is the symbol of the end of the monarchy and the beginning of the Republic. The national holiday is a time when all citizens celebrate their membership to a republican nation. ...

What is it? A free unconference where you can learn about Drupal. Where? Polytechnic University, Brooklyn When? Saturday, July 14th, 2007 (they may be adding a second day on Sunday as well) More Info: http://barcamp.org/DrupalCampNYC3 I'll be there, please say "hey" if anyone else is coming! (Source: Forum - Library 2.0)

As part of their activities in the last ALA annual meeting, the GODORT State and Local Documents Task Force approved the creation of a fifty-state registry of state government produced databases on the new GODORT wiki. We believe that there will be great value to librarians and end users alike in having the "invisible web" of state produced databases together in one place. You can find the home page for this project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases. Right now, only Alaska has a developed page which you can find at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/Alaska as an example for what we hope the other state pages will look like. Once this registry is complete, it will have a number of uses, not the least of which will be showing that librarians are tech savvy people who know where the information is buried even when Google can't find it. BUT, we need your help to make this happen. There are four ways you can help with this project: 1) Go to the wiki and start adding any databases you are familar with. Just click on the "edit" tab. Registering with the GODORT wiki is recommended but not required. 2) Agree to be a "documents specialist" for a particular state and post your contact information so people who are not comfortable with editing wikis. 3) Recruit state agency department webmasters, other state employees or other subject specialists to contribute to the database listing. 4) As you become aware of a new state (or local) government database, e-mail me or to the documents specialist for that state if you are not comfortable with editing a wiki. To me, this seems like a perfect collaboration project for the 2.0 Librarian. You WILL benefit from learning where your state's databases are and posting them to this annotated registry. The rest of us will benefit from having similar databases available from the fifty states and learning about your state's unique content. ...

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer. -Caroline Kennedy (Source: Everyone's Blog Posts - Library 2.0)

These comments apply only to my own situation. For you, Twitter may be wonderful. Some of you have already figured out that I’m sort of an introvert, with a wide circle of friends and acquaintances but not too many that I strive to keep up with on a minute-by-minute (or week-by-week) basis. That I enjoy getting together with people at ALA (and occasionally other conferences) but don’t go to great pains to make that happen–and am perfectly comfortable dining by myself. I’m clearly not the world’s greatest social-network participant, by personality or preference. I probably still have an Orkut account and haven’t been back in more than a year. I probably have a Second Life avatar and have no idea what my name or password are. I dropped out of Ning (Library 2.0 and library bloggers) because it just didn’t work for me–I wasn’t able or willing to spend the time there, and its slowness and confused interface didn’t help a lot. Or at least I think I dropped out of Ning. I haven’t been back to check; for all I know, I may still have a page there. More about that in a bit. Twitter? In general, I can’t imagine why anyone would care what I’m doing at any given time. But…well, the use of Twitter to get together during a conference seemed at least plausible. And, breaking with my long tradition of traveling entirely without technology, I’d picked up a cheap text-oriented cell phone (with what may be the world’s smallest QWERTY keyboard) on a Virgin Mobile pay-as-you-go basis, with a $10/1,000 text message package…if only so I could contact people I was talking to about future contract or job possibilities. So I thought I’d sign up for Twitter just to see if it would be helpful during ALA. ...

I am the founder and CTO of Deep Web Technologies, a company which I believe has one of the best federated search product on the market today. We display results incrementally as soon as they become available and use sophisticated relevance ranking to find the most relevant results from thousands of results that a user's search might return. We have developed a very sophisticated connector language for interacting with each source being federated so that we don't "dumb down" to the lowest common denominator. We power a number of major public sites such as Science.gov and Scitopia..org. Please contact me -- abe@deepwebtech.com to learn more about our product/service and to discuss whether we could build a pilot for your library. (Source: Forum - Library 2.0)

Has anyone else seen GoGoFrog? Anyone using it? (Source: Forum - Library 2.0)

In viewing a number of social networking sites this one on library 2.0 caught my eye. My name is Terrie Howe and I work at a public library system in Green Bay, WI. My position supports the technology needs of public libraries within several counties of northeastern Wisconsin. I also coordinate activities among school, special, public and academic libraries through a multi-type library consortium called NEWIL (Northeastern Wisconsin Intertype Libraries). (Source: Forum - Library 2.0)

In mid June the Mississippi State University Libraries hosted the Mississippi Library 2.0 Summit. Organized by the outstanding librarians of the MSU libraries, the day revolved around explorations of user-centered technologies. I was present to open the day with a talk about the Hyperlinked Library. Sessions on Second Life, Facebook, Library 2.0 and blogging rounded out the day, which also included a panel discussion by MSU librarians sharing details of their Library 2.0 journey, an outstanding presentation by the two Nashville Public Library teen librarians, and some informative poster presentations.One of the many highlights of a full and rich day-long conference was the chance to sit in on a presentation by Angela Dunnington, Coordinator of Library Science, and Beth Stahr, Interim Head of Reference, from Southeastern Louisiana University. SELU is nestled between New Orleans and Baton Rouge and has a student population of 15,000. The library received a grant in 2005 to implement short messaging service for text reference. We talk these days about going where the users are. What the librarians at SELU noted was the prevalence of students using text messaging to communicate with each other. Could the library have a place there? Should the library try? One thing is for sure, the experience is useful to consider as we look for more ways to reach our users and their information needs.The presentation offered an in-depth look at the service.  Angela covered the nuts and bolts. “The product is virtually very inexpensive,” she said.  For roughly $1100 to startup, the service provided by a vendor in Australia includes a phone number for the library and a bundle of 1000 messages per year. After two years of providing the service, the SELU library is going to renew the product.Angela noted that “the 'Send by SMS' tool works with existing email systems and simplifies the creation of SMS/Chat abbreviations. ...

In mid June the Mississippi State University Libraries hosted the Mississippi Library 2.0 Summit. Organized by the outstanding librarians of the MSU libraries, the day revolved around explorations of user-centered technologies. I was present to open the day with a talk about the Hyperlinked Library. Sessions on Second Life, Facebook, Library 2.0 and blogging rounded out the day, which also included a panel discussion by MSU librarians sharing details of their Library 2.0 journey, an outstanding presentation by the two Nashville Public Library teen librarians, and some informative poster presentations.One of the many highlights of a full and rich day-long conference was the chance to sit in on a presentation by Angela Dunnington, Coordinator of Library Science, and Beth Stahr, Interim Head of Reference, from Southeastern Louisiana University. SELU is nestled between New Orleans and Baton Rouge and has a student population of 15,000. The library received a grant in 2005 to implement short messaging service for text reference. We talk these days about going where the users are. What the librarians at SELU noted was the prevalence of students using text messaging to communicate with each other. Could the library have a place there? Should the library try? One thing is for sure, the experience is useful to consider as we look for more ways to reach our users and their information needs.The presentation offered an in-depth look at the service.  Angela covered the nuts and bolts. “The product is virtually very inexpensive,” she said.  For roughly $1100 to startup, the service provided by a vendor in Australia includes a phone number for the library and a bundle of 1000 messages per year. After two years of providing the service, the SELU library is going to renew the product.Angela noted that “the 'Send by SMS' tool works with existing email systems and simplifies the creation of SMS/Chat abbreviations. ...

We are pleased to inform you that Vol. 4, No. 2 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS journal, is published and is available ONLINE now. This issue contains several papers related to Web 2.0 and Library 2.0. For example, Folksonomies: Why do we need controlled vocabulary? Alireza Noruzi Web 2.0 as a Social Movement William F. Birdsall Structure and Form of Folksonomy Tags: The Road to the Public Library Catalogue Louise F. Spiteri Library 2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 and Its Implications for Libraries Jack M. Manes (Source: Everyone's Blog Posts - Library 2.0)

I got a question yesterday on privacy issues with Plugoo. I sent the Plugoo people this message:Where can I get a copy of your privacy policy? What logging do you do of conversations?I got this very pleasant and quick response: Hello Bill, Thank you for your request. You can read our current Terms of Service (in French) at the following address : http://www.plugoo.com/cgu.php. We are working on an English version of this document and should soon publish it. By the way, we understand privacy is a key concern for our users, and conversations are not logged. Furthermore, conversations are strictly private between the webmaster and the visitor. Please let us know should you have any specific question about our Terms of Service or Privacy Policy. Kind regards, Guillaume I continue to be happily surprised by many of the providers of free services around the world. The vast majority provide better service and technical support than most of the library vendors I deal with on a daily basis. (Source: Everyone's Blog Posts - Library 2.0)

I saw a reference on the French library blog, Klog (http://klog.hautetfort.com/archive/2007/06/29/la-mediatheque-2-0-c-est-a-l-esc-lille.html) to a newly created very 2.0 page at the Médiathèque de Lille. It's very impressive, I think. (Source: Everyone's Blog Posts - Library 2.0)

http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/strictly-forbidden/ Brian Kelly writes: As someone who used to work in a number of IT Service departments I’m aware of potential security implications. But the tone of this notice strikes me as inappropriate. And it also seems to be out of sync with the trend towards more user-focussed IT Service departments, articulated in the introduction to the UCISA IT Support Staff Symposium 2007 given by David Harrison, UCISA chair who argued that IT Services departments need to stop saying that they are user-focussed and actually mean it. Brian mentions the work of Michael Nowlan, Director of Information Systems Services at Trinity College Dublin, and sums up: In an email Michael recently summarised what being user-focussed means to the IT services department at Trinity College Dublin: Yes before No Allow before disallow Open rather than closed Connect to the network on a device-agnostic basis I think this is a great summary of what “IT Services 2.0″ should be about. And personally I think it should be strictly forbidden to put up notices containing the words “strictly forbidden” on campuses (Source: Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology)

I have been taking this great (free) class this summer. It was offered by the California School Library Association. Actually that's how I found out about this group. I have no idea what will happen during the school year, whether or not I will be able to keep up on this site. I hope so. Anyway I spent a bunch of time today learning how to convert the file format in music so that it can be added to a blog post, movie or other application. Students today seem to know this intuitively, while I struggle for hours. I have to use a skill for it to stick, so I hope you all will listen to the music I posted. For those of you who don't know how, I downloaded a free software program from Switch and changed the output file to a .wav. Don't I sound techy! (Source: Everyone's Blog Posts - Library 2.0)

Sorry I didn't make it -- how did it go? (Source: Forum - Library 2.0)

I am a Chapter Officer for the American Library Association/Special Library Association at Syracuse University's iSchool. Myself, along with two other officers, are trying to recruit fellow students to participate in upcoming events. I have tried listserv's, announcements, personal emails, and down right begging... but have had little response both from on campus students and distance students. My attempts to increase my fellow classmates interest and participation is not for my benefit, but for their own (in terms of networking, resume building, and gaining experiences that will assist them in their future roles as librarians) I would love any suggestions you can offer about techniques to improve attendance and participation. (Source: Forum - Library 2.0)

Dobrecky, Leticia Paula (2007) Hacia la library 2.0: blogs, rss y wikis . El Profesional de la Información 16(2):pp. 138-142. (Source: E-LIS)

Kyle's list is great, most of them are also ones that I read regularly. I'd suggest a couple more that you might want to consider: http://infodoodads.com/ for good reviews by librarians of new 2.0 stuff http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/ Librarian in Black, one of the best reads for a long time now http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/ it's great to see good content coming from ALA http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress good practical advice as well as thoughtful commentary --Steve (Source: Forum - Library 2.0)

Hi - I'm a reference librarian at Utah State University. Before coming to USU, I spent 6 years with the Gates Foundation, installing computers and conducting training in public libraries. I'm very intrigued by all the opportunities with library 2.0 and just trying to keep up with everything and figure out what will work here at USU. (Source: Forum - Library 2.0)