Flickr commons develop in 2007 – LoC approached Flickr about sharing photos, encouraging users tagging jan 16th 2008 launched Many nations now participating Can now only search the commons http://www.flickr.com/commons/ Brooklyn Museum – contributing to the commons caused flickr account to get flooded with comments, also posting photos that they “think” are something posting to flickr confirms or discredit it Can no longer respond to all comments, just completely got overwhelmed, it was no longer the small user community they knew and loved, were very close to leaving Goes beyond community working with their stuff, they are also helping with our workload What is the best way to add images to existing sets? Ask the question of the commons community, and you’ll get an answer Library of Congress Power commoners – do historical research and get really involved History detectives provide support to their statements by linking to sources online People provide personal memories of photos Historical context discussions Then and now photos New York Public Library – Flickr puts photos in space more accessible than they currently are, Failed in the creation of community – they framed it as a technology project, No know copyright restrictions, other rights like
Posts Tagged ‘ conference ’
Help your library be omnipresent without spending a dime
Embedded and widgetized library - Dcpl – iphone app - Chat widgets – question point - igoogle gadgets flickr badge creator – can do thru flickr steal this code now please - lets give it away – allow users to remis our source code for their own customized applications on any of their pages or sites make it easy so patrons can just copy and paste code, doesn’t need to be hard is putting code out there safe? Check with web & it folks to be sure but people will start using our stuff – creating a steal this code tool - decide what kind of widget you want to offer – catalog, databases, combo catalog & databases, web-based or IM chat - plan webpage layout of widget and code generator textarea - provide a working example of the widget so people know exactly what they are getting - the magic of html forms – simple catalog search example examples auariua library – steal this code page university of Colorado Denver – university of Minnesota dulutch UMD library advertise service prepared for success reasons to give it away platform independent fun opportunities Mobi – easy to use to create a
Computers in Libraries
I’m at Computers and Libraries this week so the next few days will be filled with conference posts. I’ll even be presenting on Tuesday afternoon, just after lunch. I came in yesterday and stopped by the gadgets and gaming session last night to see some cool toys including the Kindle 2! There are so many new toys I want If you’re following from afar the hash tag is #cil2009, you can follow on Twitter, or Jason Griffey has pulled together everything using Yahoo Pipes. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Buzz it up Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend
ICoLIS wrap up and thank you
I’ve been back from Kuala Lumpur for over a week but between Jetlag, Thanksgiving and working this weekend I’m still not back to normal (whatever that means for me). However, I want to write a wrap up and thank you post before my memories get too hazy. I think one of the best things about ICoLIS was hearing an international perspective on many issues that are discussed at US conferences. The Keynote was given by Professor Christine Bruce from Australia, the following panel included speakers from Singapore, Iran and the US (me). Despite differences, it does seem, for the most part, we all have the same problems and are looking in the same direction. I also taught a post conference workshop to about 30 people. The conference was a great experience and I’m very thankful to everyone who made my attendance possible! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Buzz it up Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend
Latest & Greatest from Ebschost
This is my first session of the day, done by MOREnet where our Ebscohost is from quick view – pop up window with abstract overview gives narrow results by subject area option narrow by publication bread crumb trail easy to remove any term from the search with X button full text check box slider for date ranges related images – get preview of first four new to use back button from ebschost not the back button in the browser newspaper via newsbank – can see things that are available thru morenets newsbank subscription rss for searches we’ve made my ebscohost folder – add to folder link under search results myfolder holds items from that search session, so you need to sign into myebsco to keep items in your permanent folder so they don’t go away when you navigate away from the page create an alert can create folders within my ebscohost can share articles with other users rss feed for searches – can send to more than one email address bookmark & share window popups a huge list of services including delicious, twitter, digg facebook etc Cite this article – give citation for article already formated for APA, MLA, Chicago
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