Five Weeks to a Social Library

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    • Play Library Branding - Five Weeks to a Social Library on Blip Five Weeks to a Social Library episodes on Blip

      Library Branding

      Alane Wilson and Alice Sneary of OCLC on Library Branding for Week 5 of the "Five Weeks to a Social Library" online course.It's right under an hour and highly relevant to thinking about the "Big Picture" of making your library social (online), the library brand and what perceptions you may need to overcome with users, as you start to implement social networking software tools in your library's everyday activities.

      • Release date
        Mar 11, 2007
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    • Play Using RSS to Add Currency to the Library Web Site Screencast - Five Weeks to a Social Library on Blip Five Weeks to a Social Library episodes on Blip

      Using RSS to Add Currency to the Library Web Sit...

      Melissa L. Rethlefsen Education Technology Librarian, Learning Resource Center, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Google Talk, Yahoo!, AIM, MSN: mlrethlefsen Melissa Rethlefsen is the education technology librarian at the Learning Resource Center, the library of the Mayo Medical School. She received her bachelor's degree in English and History from the University of Minnesota and Master's Degree in Library Science from the University of North Texas. She is an active member of the Public Health/H...

      • Release date
        Feb 12, 2007
      • Runtime
        31:26
    • Play Creating a Community for the Cultural Record: Using Social Software in Special Collections - Five Weeks to a Social Library on Blip Five Weeks to a Social Library episodes on Blip

      Creating a Community for the Cultural Record: Us...

      Proposal title: Creating a Community for the Cultural Record: Using Social Software in Special Collections Amelia Abreu Archivist and History Subject Specialist, University of Houston Libraries AIM: ameliaabreuInstitutional Blogs:Special Collections Weblog: http://weblogs.lib.uh.edu/weblogs/speccol/History Weblog: http://weblogs.lib.uh.edu/weblogs/history/Biographical Information: Amelia Abreu works as an Archivist and History Subject Librarian at University of Houston. Her interests are in ex...

      • Release date
        Feb 5, 2007
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        13:59
    • Play Using Mediawiki Open-Source Software as Infrastructure for Electronic Resource Outreach - Five Weeks to a Social Library on Blip Five Weeks to a Social Library episodes on Blip

      Using Mediawiki Open-Source Software as Infrastr...

      Robert H. McDonald and Jonathan Blackburn The Mediawiki platform is the heart of the successful open-access encyclopedia Wikipedia; however, it is also an exciting open-source software platform for online publishing. At Florida State University we have bundled Mediawiki into our electronic resource access strategy to enable custom content that supports online training and information literacy objectives. This presentation will cover basic setup for the Mediawiki software platform and will demo...

      • Release date
        Feb 4, 2007
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    • Play Mingle! Mingle! Or, How to Mix with Library Users in Myspace, Embrace Every Opportunity to Get Out t - Five Weeks to a Social Library on Blip Five Weeks to a Social Library episodes on Blip

      Mingle! Mingle! Or, How to Mix with Library User...

      Beth Evans, Brooklyn College Library "Working a party" takes on new meaning when you are A) A library and B) The party is the world of Myspace and C) You want to get out the Library Message to all of your real and potential users who may have overlooked you in their detours through other sites on the web and other distractions in the real world. Yes, they (our users) are online, and so are libraries, but are we all in the same online space? Myspace is fast growing to become a web within the we...

      • Release date
        Feb 2, 2007
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        20:52
    • Play Tagging, Folksonomies and the Collective Consciousness of Online Communities - Five Weeks to a Social Library on Blip Five Weeks to a Social Library episodes on Blip

      Tagging, Folksonomies and the Collective Conscio...

      Presenter: Gabriel Lundeen Web-site and/or blog: In development – none at the moment IM screenname: ignatiusmonkey Institutional affiliation: Los Angeles Public Library Brief biographical information: Gabriel Lundeen works as an Adult Services Librarian at the Los Angeles Public Library’s Canoga Park Branch. He received his MLIS from Florida State University in 2005. He enjoys mountain biking, writing and scheming about his ongoing quest to revolutionize the information world and...

      • Release date
        Feb 1, 2007
      • Runtime
        18:37
    • Play Using the Tools: How Millenials use the world wide web - Five Weeks to a Social Library on Blip Five Weeks to a Social Library episodes on Blip

      Using the Tools: How Millenials use the world wi...

      By Jami SchwarzwalderMillennials born 1980 to 2000 are a generation that has grown up with video games and the Internet. They are surrounded by technology which has given them experiences like no other generation before them. I propose to show participants how Millennials use the various tools available from the Internet and encourage them to spend time experiencing the world on the web, so that they might be inspired to create programs and online applications in support of informal online lea...

      • Release date
        Feb 1, 2007
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    • Play Building Next Generation Library Web Sites Using PmWiki: An Interview with Patrick Michaud - Five Weeks to a Social Library on Blip Five Weeks to a Social Library episodes on Blip

      Building Next Generation Library Web Sites Using...

      Narrated by Brenda Chawner Patrick Michaud, the PmWiki developer, in conversation with John Rankin, an active member of the PmWiki community. John has used PmWiki in the WikiPublisher project, which lets authors create wiki content and then transform it to high quality pdf suitable for printing.The Social Libraries course wiki page for our content contains links to support this podcast.This conversation was recorded on 26 October 2006.More info: www.pmwiki.org

      • Release date
        Jan 30, 2007
      • Runtime
        48:00
    • Play Flickr as a Training Tool - Five Weeks to a Social Library on Blip Five Weeks to a Social Library episodes on Blip

      Flickr as a Training Tool

      by Lauren Pressley This recording is part of the 5 Weeks to a Social Library podcast.Here are some links that are useful for this recording:Presentation Links: 1. My Flickr training account 2. Machines album 3. First photo in machines albumGeneral Links: Flickr, My Flickr account, My training Flickr account, My library Flickr account, Tasklog blog, Wiki handbook, Youtube videoContact Information: AIM: laurenpressley, email: pressllm@wakeforest.edu or pressllm@wfu.edu, phone: 336-758-5538More i...

      • Release date
        Jan 30, 2007
      • Runtime
        28:31
    • Play Duck Soup: Using a Blog to Provide Product Support - Five Weeks to a Social Library on Blip Five Weeks to a Social Library episodes on Blip

      Duck Soup: Using a Blog to Provide Product Support

      By Karen Harker The UT Southwestern Medical Center Library provides numerous electronic resources and services. These include not only mission-critical databases for clients and Library staff (e.g., Ovid, Web of Science, ejournals, ebooks, etc.) but also software programs that are used primarily by staff (e.g., Camtasia, MovableType, etc.). Many of these resources require varying levels of support to both continuously maintain access to them and effectively use them. Such support ranges from t...

      • Release date
        Jan 29, 2007
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