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Networked Co-Curation In Virtual Museums: Digital Humanities, History, And Social Media In The Toledo’S Attic Project, Arjun Sabharwal

Arjun Sabharwal

Networked co-curation is an innovative outreach practice in archives and museums using social media with other Web 2.0 technologies in order to curate digital heritage collections. It relies on crowd-sourced curation, which results in richer discourse through globally dispersed public participation and intersubjective perspectives. The theoretical framework for networked co-curation consists of three dimensions: digital history, digital humanities, and social network theory. Historical representation, intertextuality, and remediation play a vital role in networked co-curation, forming a bridge between digital content and a transforming virtual audience. Networked co-curation present three significant concerns for archives, libraries, and museums: provenance verification, knowledge representation, …

Research Guides At Smu Li Ka Shing Library: Built With Libguides, Pin Pin Yeo

YEO Pin Pin

The Li Ka Shing Library at the Singapore Management University (SMU) used a new platform, LibGuides to create their research guides. The research guides are traditionally subject pathfinders, but at the LKS Library, the guides are also used as a teaching tool and to support a course. The implementation process for LibGuides and the usage of the guides was explored. Statistics on usage of the guides on the LibGuides platform were provided. The course specific guides at the Library contribute 59% of the usage from the top 20 guides.

Web 2.0 And Libraries: All Staff Meeting, 12/11/2007, Maria Carpenter, Amanda Rust

Amanda Rust

No abstract provided.

Marketing And Promotion Of Library Services Using Web 2.0: An Annotated Mediagraphy., Thomas Ivie, B. Mckay, F. May, J Mitchell, H. Mortimer, L. Walker

Thomas Ivie

No abstract provided.

Too Good To Be True?: Implementing The Open-Source Program Zotero At A University Library, Peter Fernandez

Peter Fernandez

Presented at the American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference

With the release of the 2.0 Beta, Zotero has taken powerful personal bibliographic management software to the next level, making the open-source program a legitimate alternative to for-profit products such as RefWorks and EndNote. It utilizes a simple iTunes™–like interface within the Firefox web browser that gives users the ability to easily download and manipulate bibliographic information with a single click from most popular websites and databases. For more advanced users, Zotero has the potential to be a powerful information management system that incorporates the best features of Web 2.0. The …

From Web 2.0 To Lib 2.0: New Paradigms For Driving Access To Knowledge By Academic Librarians In Nigeria, Helen N. Eke Miss

Helen Nneka Eke

Purpose: This paper investigates the concept of web 2.0 and its application to library services known as library 2.0. Design/Methodology/Approach: Basically, information was gathered through literature search and the paper commences with basics of web 2.0, stating the concept, the features and then, transition to lib 2.0. Library 2.0 is seen as a user-centered tool which enables real time interaction with library patrons enhancing a two way relationship where the information consumers connect with information producers to become co-producers themselves. This paper discusses how academic librarians might utilize and leverage these new innovations in driving access to knowledge in the …

Szép Új Világháló. Brave New World Wide Web: Web 2.0 Expo In Nyc [In Hungarian]., Judit H. Ward, Julianna Ritter

Judit H. Ward

The authors' reflections on the 2009 Web 2.0 Expo in NYC from the perspective of librarians for the Hungarian audience. Invitation to the Expo courtesy of 2009 Web 2.0 Expo.

Monsanto Discovers New Social Media, Wilhelm Peekhaus

Wilhelm Peekhaus

As a number of critical commentators have pointed out for some years now, the Internet and other information and communication technologies are subject to capture by actors motivated less by calls for openness and democratic communication practices than by control, power, and profit. Employing the concept of “framing,” this paper offers a case study of how one company in particular, Monsanto, recently has engaged in vigorous efforts to develop and implement new communication and public relations strategies employing various forms of new social media. The findings are based on interviews with key communications personnel at Monsanto’s corporate head office in …

Connecting To Marginalized Groups Through Web 2.0, Tomaro I. Taylor

Tomaro I. Taylor

No abstract provided.

Exploring Library 2.0 On The Social Web, Steve Brantley

Steve Brantley

Library 2.0 literature has described many of the possibilities Web 2.0 technologies offer libraries. Case studies have assessed local use, but no studies have measured the Library 2.0 phenomenon by searching public social networking sites. This study used library-specific terms to search public social networking sites, blog search engines, and social bookmarking sites for activity associated with librarians and library users. Blog search data about the recentness of activity or the popularity of a blog post indicate Library 2.0 technology has many early adopters but provide less evidence of sustained use. The results follow a curve resembling the 80 / …

Libraries Interact - A Personal View Of Practical 2.0, Peta J. Hopkins

Peta Hopkins

Libraries Interact is a group blog established in 2006 to focus on topics of interest to Australian libraries and their friends. After 18 months the blog is still going strongly with a core membership of librarians spread around Australia who rarely meet in person and over 300 posts on topics covering all library sectors. This paper will look at the practical ways that web 2.0 tools and services are employed by the core group of contributors to Libraries Interact. These include: Google Groups, Peanut Butter wiki, Wordpress, Frappr and others.

What Does It Mean To Be A Science Librarian 2.0?, Melissa J. Harvey

Missy Harvey

Science librarians, as well as other librarians, have seen ample new technologies come and go over the years. Librarians experiment and try to find ways to employ the new tools in our libraries. A driving force in our decision making about what tools to use should always be our patrons and whether the tools can help us do a better job of delivering services. This paper discusses what technologies have proven to be successful, as well as other thoughts to bear in mind as librarians evaluate Web 2.0 tools for science libraries.

Wwi Postcard Collection: A Community-Based Model For Digital Libraries, Marc D. Bayer

Marc D Bayer

The paradigm shift of academic libraries from information purveyors to places of learning and communicating must occur virtually as well as physically. By creating informal virtual communities around digital collections , librarians can participate in the academic discussion and make more formal collections better known.

Open Source, Crowd Source: Harnessing The Power Of The People Behind Our Libraries, Cindi Trainor

Cindi (Trainor) Blyberg

Presented at the Bridging Worlds 2008 Conference in Singapore, this paper was later published in the journal Program: electronic library and information systems in July 2009: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00330330910978581

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an insight into the use of Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 technologies so that librarians can combine open source software with user-generated content to create a richer discovery experience for their users.

Design/methodology/approach – Following a description of the current state of integrated library systems (ILS) and the developments with Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 technologies, examples are given of library suppliers and …