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Libraries, Technology, and Collaboration:

Bring People Together Without Bringing Them Together

NYLA’2005New York Library Association

Buffalo, NYSaturday – October 29, 2005

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Sponsored byNY3Rs Association

pdf file of the handouts (2 slides per page)is available at

http://www1.union.edu/~cosseyd

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David V. Cossey

BA, The King’s CollegeMA, Lehigh UniversityMS, University of Rhode Island

Chief Information Officer – Union College, at Union since 1986Director of Computing and Instructional Technology, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania – for 7 years prior to coming to Union CollegeBarrington College, 1968-79

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Personal library/book activitiesMember of College’s Library Automation Committee – over 14 yearsCurrently member of Capital District Library Council (CDLC) Board of TrusteesSearch committees: Library Director (2), System LibrarianOwner of many books/avid reader

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Union CollegeSchenectady, New Yorkwww.union.edu

Founded 17952,000 studentsLiberal ArtsEngineering programs since 1845

NYLA'2005 - October 29, 2005 6Library of Congress-April 16, 2002

“Nothing could be more misleading than the claim that computer technology introduced the age of information.

The printing press began that age in the early sixteenth century. . . .

Fifty years after the press was invented, more than eight million books had been printed, almost all of them filled with information that had previously been unavailable to the average person.” Neil Postman

in Technolopoly,p. 61

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So many books

. . . So little time

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Or to paraphrase

… so many books

. . . so much RAM

. . . still so little time!!

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Current Reading

America’s God by Mark NollHarvard Yard by William MartinThe March by E.L. DoctorowA Link Among the Days: The Life and Times of the Rev. Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin, the Father of Colonial Williamsburg by Dennis MontgomeryKnowing God by J.I. Packer

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Current Reading

Leadership by Rudy GiulianiFaithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season by Stewart O’Nan and Stephen King1776 by David McCulloughThe World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. FriedmanYour Intelligence Makeover: An Easy Way to Learn All you Need to Knowby Ed Droge. Free Press, 2005

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Outline

Enabling technologiesAsynchronous collaborationSynchronous collaborationOnline communitiesImplications for libraries

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Enabling technologies

“Low Threshold Applications” (LTAs)“LTA” – from Steve Gilbert of the TLT Group

emailWeb logs (blogging)podcasting

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Enabling TechnologiesFace-to-Face “Meetings”

Notebook computersWirelessLow-cost devices (notebooks, wireless, projectors)Low-cost web camerasSoftware (Macromedia Breeze, MS NetMeeting, etc.)High-speed broadband InternetData projectors

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Notebook Computers

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iPod

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Handheld devices

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Handheld devices

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ProjectorsBest Buy 10-9-2005

CompUSA 10-9-2005

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Wireless

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Wireless

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Free wireless at Panera BreadOctober 2, 2005

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Free wireless atPanera BreadOctober 2, 2005

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Free wireless at Panera BreadOctober 2, 2005

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Free wireless at Panera BreadOctober 2, 2005

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Free wireless at Panera BreadOctober 2, 2005

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Free wireless at Panera BreadOctober 2, 2005

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High-speed networking. . . and into the home

Verizon

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Asynchronous Collaboration

wikis and the wikipediaRSS feedsBlogs and bloggingPodcasts and podcasting

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wikis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

“. . . a group of Web pages that allows users to add content, . . . , but also allows others (often completely unrestricted) to edit the content.”

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Wikibooks

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editing “Wiki” article

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Wiki software

Can have your own wikiMuch of the software is free under the General Public License (GPL)Usually runs on a server

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wikipedia.org

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Wiki software – one example

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RSS and RSS feeds

RSS is a technology used to quickly distribute on-demand information to subscribers of an RSS Feed.This information can be a simple news article or even an Mp3 file (called a Podcast).

Source: wikipedia article “What’s RSS”

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RSSRSS is a Web content syndication format.Its name is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication.RSS is a dialect of XML. All RSS files must conform to the XML 1.0 specification, as published on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website.

<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss>

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RSS and RSS feedsAn RSS feed allows an internet user to easily recieve updates or new content from a website using a simple program called a Feed Aggregator.Feed aggregators work similar to (and are usually included in) modern email clients. A feed is usually shown as a small orange icon, such as one of the following:

Source: wikipedia article “What’s RSS”

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blogs and blogging

Blog (from Wikipedia)A weblog or blog (derived from web + log) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally, but not always, in reverse chronological order). Although most early blogs were manually updated, tools to facilitate the updating and maintenance of such sites made them accessible to a much larger and less technical population.The use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of "blogging."

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Blogging - client software an RSS ReaderOne example – Pluck(from www.pluck.com)

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from www.pluck.com

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Union College’s Schaffer Library

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Schaffer Library’s Blog

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Pluck is accessible from within Internet Explorer

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After adding it to my feed in Pluckfrom within Internet Explorer

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EDUCAUSE Review online at www.educause.edu

Nov/Dec 2005 issue

Great article discussing Podcasting

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EDUCAUSE Review online

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Podcasting –Software – One example

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iPodder

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iPodder

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iPodder

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FLOCK: the next generation browser?

www.flock.comPreview version (Build 0.4.9)For Mac OS X, Windows and LinuxFlock community wiki: http://wiki.flock.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

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Meetings (face-to-face)

One-to-oneOne-to-many (example lecturing to a group)Many-to-many

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Synchronous Collaborationfor “face-to-face” virtual meetings

AudioAudio and video

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Synchronous Collaborationfor “face-to-face” virtual meetings

What’s neededComputerInternet connection (preferably broadband)Video cameraHeadset with microphone, or speakers and microphoneConferencing software

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Macromedia Breeze(just one example)

Pictures of some screen shotshttp://www.macromedia.comVideo of sample meeting

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Sharing an application- in this case EXCEL

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Demo Video – next slide

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Microsoft NetMeeting

Comes with WindowsXP (but it is “hidden”)Not all the features that you would get in a package like Breeze, but it is “free” (and free is usually nice)

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at Start/Runtype conf and click on “OK” and follow instructions to install NetMeeting

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NetMeeting

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NetMeeting

Connect a cameraConnect a data projector if being viewed on a screenConnect a headset with a microphone,

orConnect a set of speakers and a separate microphone (if being viewed by more than one person – be careful of feedback)

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Sharing an application

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Chat

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Whiteboard

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File Transfer

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Putting It All Together

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Online Communities

Learning Times Network. http://www.learningtimes.org and http://www.learningtimes.netTeaching, Learning, Technology Group. http://www.tltgroup.orgKept-Up Academic Librarian. http://keptup.typepad.com/academicBlended Librarians Web Site. http://blendedlibrarian.org

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www.learningtimes.net

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The TLT Group

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The TLT Group

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http://www.librarystuff.org

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http://www.librarystuff.org

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http://ariel.adgrp.com/~ghb

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http://ariel.adgrp.com/~ghb/WIP/CLIC/CLIC.html

George Brett II

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Other Collaborations

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Collaborations - Opportunities

Share staff resourcesSave travel expensesShare expertiseMeetingsWorkshopsSeminars

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Kennebec River – Bath, Maine - Summer of 2003

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Kennebec River – Bath, Maine - Summer of 2003

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http://www1.union.edu/~cosseyd

pdf file of the handouts(2 slides per page)

is available at the above URL