Library School

I started library school over the summer and can’t believe how much time it is taking!

It is taking away from crafting and blogging. I am not feeling the love with wordpress and if I ever get back to this blogging thing I think I will use blogspot. A lot of people are using it instead and seem to like it.

Library PIN

Back on the entry about YouTube I said someone should make a video of how to get your library pin. Guess what – the reference department is putting together something! Not sure what software they are using and it is still in the development stage and not live. Stay tuned……………..

More on CARL conference

Back when we were doing our homework for the Demystifying the web class – under our Flickr homework I said something about maybe the library doing a YouTube video. Well, here is one that was done for the Penn Library:

Weigle Information Center

A bit corny but it grows on you.

CARL conference in Santa Clara

Carpooled with workmates to the CARL conference in Santa Clara. Getting out of the office and doing something fun was most excellent. Wrote up a page for the wiki at work so will just mention a few highlights here.

Presenter: Rachel Smith from New Media Consortium presented six key emerging technologies from The 2008 Horizon Report. They were:

1) Grassroots video – faculty will create tutorials using digital cameras to make interesting videos. For example, U.C. Berkeley has a YouTube video.

2) Collaboration webs – where a team of people can work together or in parallel and create their own website.

3) Mobile Broadband – an example would be using wireless network iphones at museums to take guided tours of the art.

4) Data Mashups

5) Collective Intelligence – an example of this is when Amazon recommends a title you might like based on the title you are purchasing. One cool tool is Human Brain cloud where a word pops up on your screen and you type in a corresponding word.

6) Social Operating Systems – an example we were shown was Xobni which is a tool you use in connection with Outlook. It sits beside Outlook and it shows you a profile of the person sending you email, a summary of how many times and the average time of day they send you emails, it can crawl signature lines to find phone numbers.

Presenter: Raymond Yee, UC Berkeley School of Information talked about:

1) Geo tagging now on Flickr – you can map where a photo was taken.

2) Yahoo pipes – “a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web”.

Jill Tinsley, a graduate student at the University of Arizona had a lot of tools that she showed us – a few she mentioned: Grokker, Kartoo, Quintura, Oksope, Like, Reverbiage, Marumushi, Digg, Searchmap, Roomformilk, Buzztracker, Tuneglue, Muicmesh, Piclens.
Idee labs visual search lab – you can search for visually similar pictures from their photo stock and group them together.
Amadig combines Youtube and Amazon.
[http://flightwait.com/ Flight wait] shows you in real time any flight in the U.S. that is on time or delayed.

Presenters Devin Blong and Jonathan Breitbart of Open Library talked: “One web page for every book ever published. It’s a lofty, but achievable, goal. To build it, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a brand new database infrastructure for handling huge amounts of dynamic information, a wiki interface, multi-language support, and people who are willing to contribute their time, effort, and book data. To date, we have gathered about 30 million records (13.4 million are available through the site now), and more are on the way. We have built the database infrastructure and the wiki interface, and you can search millions of book records, narrow results by facet, and search across the full text of 230,000 scanned books.”

Presenter Laura Moody from S.F. State University talked about LibGuides:

“LibGuides is a web 2.0 content management and information sharing system designed specifically for Libraries. Over 5,800 librarians at 300 libraries worldwide use LibGuides every day to create content, publish useful information, and connect with patrons”

I looked at a LibGuide for S.F. State and it seemed like it would be pretty helpful to students. I know they are trying to do LibGuides here but I have not seen any published yet.

Shelfari

I had set up Shelfari awhile ago but it is not much fun if you don’t have any friends to see what they are reading. Two coworkers set up Shelfari and invited me to be their friends – much more fun! I could not figure out how to add the Shelfari pic to a side bar editor but according to Help it can not be added for WordPress – bummer!

Wordle

Using this blog in wordle

Using words on my bulletin board

How fun is this program!!!!!!!!!!

80 online resources for book lovers

80 online resources

Came across this site that lists resources we have discussed in this class and some new ones also.