New Tools for libraries Krista Auvinen Chief Information Specialist

Vantaa City Library

Advocacy and Marketing for Libraries 18.4.2008

Tim O’Reilly 2005: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

The Changing Role of Librarian

From the static to the flexible

From Static to Flexible

Taming the Information Flow

• Old school sees Internet as a chaotic non-organized constellation of web pages where is no law and order

• Internet is full of tools to handle and tame the information. It contains more and more effective tools to search and find the information

The information is coming to you

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/

Spreading into the other services

• Web is becoming remixable • Some web sites will offer their information via a

REST API • Others will try to keep their information

proprietary, but it will be opened via mashups • The Library web services can be implemented to

web services like Netvibes, IGoogle and Facebook.

John Blyberg’s iGoogle pages

Social networking

• Social networking services are web sites that enables users to create public profiles within that web site and form relationships

• Users can form groups according to their intrests

• The most popular social networking services are Facebook and MySpace

• Libraries can use MySpace and Facebook to

- inform about they events- present guided tutorials and special

collections- access to the web library catalogue- to social networking and communication- to offer expertise

Social networking and libraries

Social media

• With social media services users can watch, share and comment photos and videos and also create interest groups

• Flickr is one of the best known photo-sharing sites, where you can collect and organize images and where you can incorporate images into webservices

• YouTube is one of the best known videoservice, where you can can collect and organize images and where you can incorporate images into webservices

• Libraries can use Flickr:

- for creating library photo-tours

- highlight items from rare collections

- show what’s on the New Book Shelf this week

Libraries and Flickr

http://www.cambridgelibraries.ca/hot/carousel.cfm

Sources:

Anderson, P. F.; 31 Flavors – Things to Do With Flickr in Libraries. 2007.

http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent;jsessionid=6271E4E033F462C82F25817BCD5AE4D?id=17624

Salmenkivi Sami; Yhteisöllinen media ja muuttuva markkinointi 2.0. 2007.

Pictures:

Cards. Aaron Schmidt’s photostream. Flickr. CC. 15.3.2008

Neon 2. Maistora. Flickr. CC. 12.4.2008. http://www.flickr.com/photos/maistora/2198169539/

”Picture of hands” Myriapod. Flickr. CC 17.4.2008 http://www.flickr.com/photos/myriapod/439618208/