presented at the Seminar on the theme “Basics and Beyond Librarianship: Towards a Compleat Librarian,” held at Holy Angel University, Angeles, Pampanga on September 9, 2009
Emerging Technologies in the Workplace For Quality Service
1. By Fe Angela M. Verzosa Emerging Technologies in the Workplace for Quality Library Service Presented at Holy Angel University’s Seminar on the theme “Basics and Beyond Librarianship: Towards a Compleat Librarian” Casa Nena, STL Building, Holy Angel University, September 9-10, 2009 WWW HTML pdf XML
66. Enhance Library Facilities Adaptive technology rooms with computers Consultation rooms where users can meet with librarians individually and in small groups
Information literacy actually involves the integration of many literacies: library expertise, computer skills, media literacy, technology, ethics, critical thinking and communication.
In the digital age, what information literacy means is that understanding technologies is not enough. What everyone must also do is learn how to utilize those incredibly diverse and powerful technologies efficiently and effectively to search for, retrieve, organize, analyze, evaluate information and then use it for specific decision-making and problem-solving ends.
What is Social Software? a range of web-based software programs that allow users to interact and share data with other users This graphical presentation was taken from: Ellyssa Kroski , Social Software in Academic Libraries, a powerpoint presentation given at the ACRL/NY Symposium Nov. 30, 2007.
Del.icio.us - a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmark s; was acquired by Yahoo! in December 2005 , to the tune of somewhere between US$15 million and US$30 million LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips . YouTube was created in mid- February 2005 . In Nov 2006, it was bought by Google for 1.65 billion US dollars. MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos internationally. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills , California , where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media ; which is owned by News Corporation , which has its headquarters in New York City . MySpace is currently the world's sixth most popular website, and the third most popular website in the United States . Facebook is a social networking website , launched on February 4 , 2004 . Initially the membership of Facebook was restricted to students of Harvard College . Eventually, anyone with a university (e.g .edu, .ac.uk, etc.) email address from institutions across the globe were eligible to join. It is the most popular website for uploading photos, with 14 million uploaded daily. LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003 mainly used for professional networking . As of December 2007 , its site traffic was 3.2 million visitors per month. The purpose of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. It can then be used to find jobs, people and business opportunities recommended by someone in one's contact network. Employers can list jobs and search for potential candidates. Job seekers can review the profile of hiring managers and discover which of their existing contacts can introduce them. Last.fm is a UK -based internet radio and music community website , founded in 2002. It claims over 15 million active users based in more than 200 countries. [1] On 30 May 2007 , CBS Interactive acquired Last.fm for £ 140m ( US$ 280m), making Last.fm the largest European Web 2.0 purchase to date. On 30th May 2007 it was announced that Last.fm has been bought by CBS for £140 million
A host of academic libraries have created Facebook applications which enable their patrons to search their library catalogs and in some cases articles from within Facebook. Facebook applications have been such a huge hit with members that they have accounted for a 37% increase in activity between May when the feature was released and August of this year.
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And librarians are using them for best practices collections, such as on the lib success wiki, also the library instruction wiki is a collection of all the best resources for instructional librarians, etc.
LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth. LibraryThing is a full-powered cataloging application, searching the Library of Congress, all five national Amazon sites, and more than 80 world libraries. You can edit your information, search and sort it, "tag" books with your own subjects, or use the Library of Congress and Dewey systems to organize your collection. How can libraries use LibraryThing? Fully integrate LibraryThing's social data into your catalog using LibraryThing for Libraries . LTFL lets you add tag-based browsing, book recommendations, ratings, reviews and more to your OPAC, by integrating with LibraryThing and its high-quality book data. can use LibraryThing as a catalog for their collection.
Service for the next-generation library By Michael E. Casey and Laura C. Savastinuk -- Library Journal, 9/1/2006 Libraries are changing. Funding limits and customer demands are transforming staffing levels, service models, access to resources, and services to the public. Library 2.0 is a new model for library service The heart of Library 2.0 is user-centered change. It is a model for library service that encourages constant and purposeful change, inviting user participation in the creation of both the physical and the virtual services they want, supported by consistently evaluating services. It also attempts to reach new users and better serve current ones through improved customer-driven offerings. Library 2.0 also attempts to harness the library user in the design and implementation of library services by encouraging feedback and participation. The user is participant, co-creator, builder and consultant – whether the product is virtual or physical.
Organizations are using them for conference planning – an informal space to have information about speakers' and attendees schedules, dining information, tagging and twitter information. This is the ALA annual conference wiki.
Ohio University Libraries has combined their marketing, general, and international business subject guides in one place to create BizWiki A searchable & easily updatable resource for patrons which anyone can edit. Using Media Wiki, they have created this information resource about business databases and resources, instructional articles on how to research companies, guides to various industries, FARQs
WikiPilipinas is now the biggest collaborative writing project on the Philippines.
PAARLWiki is a project I spearheaded to provide our community of library informationals with sources available locally and through the Internet, particularly on research articles, case studies, lecture presentations, technical reports, etc. on Philippine librarianship. In addition, I added more online information on library standards, profiles of various library organizations in the country, and outstanding librarians. I also uploaded many useful links on anything that is library-related, or may be useful to libraries.
The librarians at Williams College created a library welcome video for new students which leads them on a mystery tour of the library. They have it hosted up on YouTube. It's an engaging way to introduce new students to the campus library as well as to its librarians.
The Colorado College Tutt & Coburn Libraries displays its special collection of photographs of the college libraries dating back to the nineteenth century and makes it available to the public thru Flickr.