Using Web 2.0 tools in the library

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Presentation given at the CILIPS event 2nd July 2009

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Practical uses for Web 2.0 in your organisation

Phil Bradley, Freelance Librarian and Internet Consultant.

http://www.philb.com

Libraries and Web 2.0

• It’s not about the tools• It’s about the mindset• It’s about the activity• It’s about freeing up time• It’s about taking control

So!

• What is it that libraries and librarians do again?

Communication - weblogs

Minimum expectations

But how about...?

Flickr

But expand the use!

Wordle.net

Bookmarks/Favo(u)rites

• Share resources• Network with colleagues• Take a feed and place it onto an appropriate

page• Use it as a search engine

Del.icio.us

Google RSS reader to share content

Wallwisher

Nik Peachey’s Wallwisher

Glogster

Home/Start Pages

• Netvibes• Pageflakes• Virtual library pages or portals• Ease of updating• Interactive

Social networking

Google groups

Wikis

• Self created websites• Single/multi authored• Public/private• Quick and dirty/Very professional• Short term task• Long term project

PBworks

Disposable web pages

Google docs

Xmarks

Google Custom Search

Search with RSS

Instant chat

Ask a librarian!

Twitter

Add a Twitter feed to your blog

Yammer or Shoutem

Screentoaster

Instructional videos

Slideshare.net

Embed presentations

WizIQ

Mash-ups

Podcasting

Audacity recording software

Multimedia

VoiceThread

‘One trick ponies’

• They do one thing, very well.

LibraryThing

Bookseer

Drop.io

And then...

• Blend it all together• Web sites are now of different importance• Everything should link to everything else

In summary

• ITANTTS– (It’s the activity, not the tool, stupid!)

• If a tool only does one thing, drop it• Forget loyalty• Try it and see what happens; understand what

you want to achieve• Combine and blend• Take control!

Thanks to:• http://uklibraryblogs.pbworks.com/ • http://www.flickr.com/photos/plymouthlibraries/3638349056/ • http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Se2CEhZjQyo/SZ60IsJ9HmI/AAAAAAAAAeY/1ExtNzF_Pec/s1600-h/librarian%5B1%5D.jpg (For

the ask a librarian cartoon)• http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/teachersweb20