Social Software for Library People

A talk for the Jefferson County Public Library All Staff Day, May 9, 2008

Slides

Or download the PDF (27.9MB): Social Software for Library People

Links and images from the talk, and suggestions for further reading

In order of appearance in the slides, more or less.

introduction

• Meredith Farkas, Social Software in Libraries
• Jessamyn West, Why should libraries be socially networking? on librarian.net
• Tutt Library, Colorado College Facebook page
• eVolver - Denver Public Library Teens on MySpace
• 365 Tutt Library Days - a set on Flickr
• Share, by Meredith Farkas for the Passion Quilt
• Corvida, It's OK to Ignore Social Media on SheGeeks
• Ryan Deschamps, Navigating Online Cultures on The Other Librarian. Besides being a good, fun post about social sites, this is where I got some of the goofy names for the characteristics of social software.

blogorwiki?

• Michael Sauers, blogorwiki on The Travelin' Librarian
• Between the Pages, the Jefferson County Public Library news blog
• Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century
• Walt Crawford, Wikis and libraries: "What's a wiki--and why should you care as a library leader?" On The PALINET Leadership Network
• Wikipedia
• LISwiki
• Alliance Round Table Discussion on Web 2.0 in Libraries: This wiki is viewable by anyone, but editable only by invitation.
• Get your own blog: Blogger or Wordpress.com for free, no-fuss blog hosting.
• Get your own wiki: PBwiki or Wetpaint for free, easy wikis.

how do you find interesting sites?

• Technorati
• Google Blog Search (As suggested by someone at the talk)
• infodoodads
• ReadWriteWeb

contextual egomania

• MySpace
• Twitter
• Facebook
• danah boyd, Friends, friendsters, and top 8: Writing community into being on social network sites. First Monday 11(12) 4 December 2006.
• TwitterLocal
• Ryan Deschamps, A Rise in the Halifax Local Network in The Other Librarian.
• George Oates Community: From Little Things, Big Things Grow. A post about Flickr and community on the web design blog A List Apart.
• Flickr: In Numerical Order

folksonomics

• del.icio.us
• del.icio.us/tag tag cloud
• Flickr tag cloud
• Rocket clusters on Flickr
• LibraryThing
• LibraryThing tag cloud
• LibraryThing Tagmash for colorado, fiction, history
• The Del.icio.us Lesson: "personal value precedes network value"
• "Useless"
• Ann Arbor District Library Catalog with user tagging
• graffiti NY

when do you find time?

• David Lee King, Making Time for Web 2.0
• Clay Shirky, Gin, Television, and Social Surplus on Here Comes Everybody

imashination

• Denver Public Library: Summer of Reading video on YouTube
• Sarah Houghton-Jan, Librarian in Black post on DPL video
• Meredith Farkas, Information Wants to Be Free
• Google Reader feed reader
• Netvibes feed reader
• Roy Tennant If It Doesn't Have an API, It's Not Worth Having on TechEssence.info
• fastr: a flickr game
• Tagnautica
• retrievr

Social software and me

I participate in all these online social networks to different degrees. For example, I usually update Twitter multiple times per day, but I seldom even look at MySpace. I'm happy to friend people from Jefferson County Public Library, but you might want to email me if I don't friend you back right away.

• del.icio.us
• Facebook (me)
• Facebook (Tutt Library)
• Flickr (me)
• Flickr (Tutt Library)
• LibraryThing
• MySpace
• Twitter

Thanks

Thanks to Beth Jones and Kim Tobler and everyone else at Jefferson County Public Library who made me feel welcome; Meredith Farkas for the referral; and the Library Society of the World for all the ideas and discussion.