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Internet Librarian Wrap Up

November 2, 2009
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Internet Librarian Wrap Up

As always conferences are amazing, stimulating, intense and tiring, but worth every second of it. I was able to talk with so many amazing people, and yet there were so many others I wanted to connect with and didn’t manage to. *More reflection at the end, but for those who want the nitty gritty…. Pulled from notes and tweets – some of my favorite quotes/idea and what I’m thinking about. If you could tell the world 1 thing about libraries in 30 secs or less what would it be? Good enough is the new perfect Lean into your discomfort – change doesn’t happen without discomfort. Be clear where your lines are drawn. Your librarianly obsession with Star Wars will not endear you to your patrons. The future is here its just not evenly distributed. Privacy is dead, get over it “If I’d asked them what they wanted they would have said a faster horse” – Henry Ford “If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” Gen. Eric Shinseki If we keep identifying with books – libraries are dead. We should reward success and failure, punish inaction We have more autonomy as college students that we do as adults

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Sneaking the Social Web into Your Library: Tips Tricks & Just Plain Sneaky Tactics

November 2, 2009
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One of my presentations from Notes from the 2009 Internet Librarian Conference with Erin Downey Howerton Sneaking the Social Web into Your Library View more presentations from Bobbi Newman. Erin’s slides and blog post I mentioned during the Q&A that you can do all sorts of things with RSS. An audience member asked me if I could include some of that information in my post. Here goes David Rothman’s Favorite RSS Resources and Tools *start here* Explaining RSS Resources to help you choose a feed aggregator Google Reader Tips and Plug-ins RSS-to-Email tools Publishing RSS content on Web Pages Web-Based RSS-to-Web-Page tools Hosted RSS-to-Web-Page Tools Feed mashing and filtering tools and Creating feeds for pages that don’t offer them From Mashable The Ultimate RSS Toolbox – 120+ RSS Resources includes readers rss to email converters feed validators, plugins mixer ping tools directories and tips & hacks. It’s ok if you don’t know what all of those are, bookmark it for later when you do. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed 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

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Dreaming, Designing, & Using Mobile Library Platforms

October 28, 2009
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Dreaming, Designing, & Using Mobile Library Platforms

Notes from the 2009 Internet Librarian Conference Tom Ipri Jason Griffey R. Toby Greenwalt Jason A. Clark Matt Benzing Michael P Sauers Christa Burns Mike & Christa – phone or lab top questions Tom – mobile sights are not desktop-light Let’s not make crappy mobile sights out of our crappy websites. Should you have a mobile site? What is your population, is this the time you need to have a mobile site What should be on the site? Mobile web is mobile, text based; people aren’t there to just browse & browse they are looking for something specific Remember there are many different types of phone, not everyone has an iphone Web test is brief mobile site should be uber brief Simple navigation Even good connections can be slow Essential information Mobile usability mobile webs of 2009 is = to desktop web of 1998 Desk top success rate 80% Movie success 64% – success increased when used a site designed for mobile browsing, better phones preformed better Jason Clark Mobile apps for libraries Native app vs mobile apps Native apps – install on phone or devise, access to hardware, speakers, camera etc Distributed through a controlled site Mobile apps –

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Micro Interactions, Conversations, & Customers: Sweet Tweet Strategies

October 27, 2009
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Notes from the 2009 Internet Librarian Conference Micro Interactions, Conversations, & Customers: Sweet Tweet Strategies David Lee King Julie Strange Amy Kearns David – tools for interaction Comments Start conversation and add value – except maybe on youtube Status updates – twitter facebook myspace Casual conversation Meet ups Retweet – that was cool content, I’m going to share it again Likes, thumbs ups, ratings, favorites You can subscribe to someone elses twitter favorites by RSS feeds, let someone else do the work for you How to achieve engagement nirvana 1. Say the stuff in your head – but not everything, Healthy debate is good 2. Have to give to get, you can’t “get” something without using it, how do you get to know a friend f2f? you interact 3. ask & ye shall receive, allows you to ask a question & get 20 responses 4. listen – listen first, 5. Dangle a carrot – tempt them to engage, offer a reward for engagement, ask leading questions 6. don’t be dishonest, if you’re dishonest or shaddy sometimes that’s amplified on the internet Bonus – tools that will help, get stats, facebook stats – demographics, flickr has stats too – these are

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Will Libraries be Able to Loan the Nook and eBooks from Barnes & Noble?

October 21, 2009
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Will Libraries be Able to Loan the Nook and eBooks from Barnes & Noble?

Will Nook and Barnes & Noble play ball with libraries?  Librarians have been trying to figure out a way to lend Kindle titles and Kindles since they were first available. But its complicated and Amazon hasn’t given any indication they want to work with libraries. Yes there are libraries doing it but they do not have Amazon’s official blessing. But the Nook and Barnes & Noble might be different. They might be willing to officially give libraries permission to loan Nooks & their ebooks.  Why? They have already built in 2 week loaning and borrowing Loaning can be made to a variety of devices – Mac, PC, iPhone, iPod Touch, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, or Windows Mobile (soon). You can load ebooks from your public library onto The Nook* Barnes & Noble has a history of work with libraries. Barnes & Noble/Bookmobile Book Fair Barnes & Noble Lends A Hand To Library System Barnes and Noble Day for the Library Barnes & Noble Bookfair Barnes & Noble Booksellers aids Kalamazoo Public Library’s Reading Together program Jefferson Parish Library Is Recipient of Barnes and Noble Donation Jessamine County Public Library Benefit Book Fair at Barnnes & Noble/Lexington, KY Barnes & Noble and

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