The American Library Association has contracted the Information Institute of Syracuse to develop a white paper about recent developments in Web-based innovations and their relationship to, and potential for use in libraries.
“The brief will put an emphasis on interactive and social web applications such as blogs, social networks, and include a survey of the general “Web 2.0″ and “Library 2.0″ development world. The idea is to present a comprehensive document library decision makers can use to understand the new wave of social Internet applications, and devise strategies to respond to potential opportunities and threats.” — http://iis.syr.edu/projects/PNOpen/About.html
A draft is available and there is an open invitation for feedback to be provided, either via email, an online forum or by editing a wiki.
Participatory networks : the library as conversation
- Discovered via The LITA (Library and Information Technology Association) Blog post outlining some of the points in the paper.
November 14th, 2006
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Peta Hopkins | All sectors, Useful resources, New technologies, Library2.0 |
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I’m gobsmacked! I just popped into Cybrary City in Second Life for a visit before bed, and have come out with a building for all Australian Libraries to share. Ooops.
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Cybrary City is an island sponsered by Talis and administered by the Alliance Library System. It provides free buildings for libraries for a year, in return for a couple of hours staffing per week. It was created last week, and I was checking out the island because I’d blogged about how great I think the initiative is.
I ran into Lorelei Junot from Alliance, and while following up CW’s email to her about maybe holding a LINT Christmas party in Second Life, she offered me an entire building for all Australian libraries. Who was I to refuse? (or accept, for that matter - but I was so stunned, that I did.)
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The new building, with an “Australian Libraries Group” sign out the front.
The map in the right corner shows the location in Cybrary City.
A Second Life presence is no small thing. IBM plans on investing $10 million in Second Life to set up a secure place where they can hold meetings with their clients. Schools, universities and companies are conducting business there. According to the Wikipedia Entry for Second Life:
Linden Lab has stated that the Second Life economy generated US$3,596,674 in economic activity during the month of September 2005.[22] According to a September 2006 Popular Science article, Second Life, through currency trading, shopping and land sales, has a GDP of $64 Million.[23]
The building is now empty, but we can furnish it. While I’m thrilled and excited to be part of the project, I have no time to run it. I have been dreaming about the possibilities, and let my imagination run riot…Here’s some ideas about how we could use the building:
- A meeting place for Australian library folk who want to know about Second Life.
- If a library sees its role as educating their clients about Virtual Worlds, this could be a good place to hold a class.
- ALIA could hold section meetings in the SL building, without people needing to physically gather.
- National Library could create a display of some of the Flickr Picture Australia photos.
- Libraries Australia (or any other catalogue) could have a searchable portal in the building.
- As a place to virtually host library folk from other countries
- As a student project in a library school..create the furtniture, mash up something amazing, staff an Australian reference desk
- A venue for Australian writers to give talks.
- A place for displays like Childrens’ Book Week finalists.
- Cybrary City has an auditorium and facility for conferencing, so seminars and presentations could be held there.
- A place to host Australian Library Week events.
We are not yet obliged to do 2 hours a week service, as we are still finding our feet. If any organisation would like to take on ownership of the project, or was planning to apply for a spot in Cybrary City anyhow, I’m happy to hand it over. I can co-ordinate temporarily, but would love to see someone else run with it.
The double storey building is at Second Life 207, 68, 23. I’d love to know of any other Australian librarians in Second Life…whether you are interested in the building or not. Please leave a comment here, or email my avatar. User: Emerald.Dumont Domain: gmail.com
UPDATE 4 Dec 2006: Cybrary City and Info Islands were moved last week after porn shops bought out the surrounding lands. The new co-ordinates are: Cybrary City 210,70,24. Here’s the SLURL, so you can Teleport there now
November 14th, 2006
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Kathryn Greenhill | All sectors, Special projects, Second Life |
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In a recent post Peta outlined some of the new things that had been happening here on LINT. Recently I improved the Australian Library Blogs search and enabled it as an OpenSearch plugin.
What does this mean?
It means that you can search the list of Australian Library Blogs without visiting the website first. Those of us that have been using the Firefox internet browser will be familiar with the search bar in the top right hand corner of the browser window. Now when you visit LINT you’ll see that the icon for the search bar gets a green tinge to it, similar to the image below.
The Firefox 2.0 Search Bar
If you’re using Internet Explorer 7, it also has a search bar. It is also located in the top right hand corner of the browser window. Now when you visit LINT you’ll see that the drop down arrow gets an orange tinge to it, similar to the image below.
The Internet Explorer 7 Search Bar
When you click on either of these icons a list of installed search engines pup-up. At the end of the list will be two new entries “Australian Library Blog Search” and “Search LINT”. Clicking on one of these entries will install the plugin into your browser. You can then search our list of Australian Library Blogs without having to visit LINT first. Although we still encourage you to visit and participate! The “Search LINT” entry allows you to restrict your search to just the LINT website.
Clicking on the icon again will bring up the list of available plugins and you can change it to one of the others to do a search.
Please let us know what you think of this addition to LINT. We appreciate your feedback. You can leave a comment, or you can email us at librarian<@>librariesinteract.info.
November 13th, 2006
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techxplorer | About this blog, All sectors, Useful resources, Blogging |
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Australian Teacher Librarian of the Year 2006
The Australian School Library Association Inc. (ASLA) and Pledger Consulting Pty Ltd (LinksPlus/Weblinks) have pleasure in announcing the winner of the 2006 Australian Teacher Librarian of the Year Award - Carol Miller from Hamilton Secondary College, Mitchell, South Australia.This national award recognises and honours an exceptional Australian teacher librarian in a school setting whose professional practice has a positive impact on student achievement and information literacy. ASLA describes the role of a teacher librarian as having three key professional specialisations: Curriculum leader, Information specialist, and Information services manager
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November 12th, 2006
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Bronwyn | School libraries |
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ALIA SA recently ran a Blogging 101 session for interested South Australian library folks which was a great success. Attendees were provided with an overview of blogging and how to do it, and from all accounts (see their Blogging Basics 101 blog), everyone had a great time and learned a lot.
Kate Sinclair, one of the session’s organisers, tells me that there is so much interest that a second session will be held next week, with a waiting list for a third session! The how-to sheets will be posted on the ALIA SA page in due course.
SA bloggers who are reading this blog after the session, you are most welcome to contribute to lint. Feel free to sign up to write your own posts, or you can comment on any posts, and don’t forget to let us know when your personal or library blogs are up and running, so we can add them to our list of Australian library blogs!
November 10th, 2006
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CW | South Australia, All sectors, Blogging |
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I’m always looking for information about copyright. How it protects the rights of the authors/creators of a work and how encouraging people to do the “right thing” can be achieved.
I think the next iteration of the Copyright Act in Australia could well prove a bit more challenging than my poor understanding of it all can cope with. Especially when those with obviously more understanding of it seem to be having difficulty working out how it is supposed to be effective.
I have been reading Weatherall’s Law: IP in the land of Oz (and more)
http://weatherall.blogspot.com/ (and others on the same topic) for a few weeks now, and it just makes me feel more confused as to the purpose of the new law - apart from the compliance aspect of current trade agreements.
How will the proposed criminal penalties affect how we use all this new technology in our libraries? Will it affect public libraries in different ways to educational libraries? I have a suspicion that this new copyright legislation in its current form could well prove challenging in how librarians can support/use some of the newer technologies.
November 9th, 2006
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Alethea | All sectors, Useful resources, New technologies, Copyright |
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I have mixed feelings about manifestos, but I really like this one from Laura Cohen - check out A Librarian’s 2.0 Manifesto.
(For what it’s worth, her Library 2.0: An Academic’s Perspective is one of my new favourite blogs!)
November 9th, 2006
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CW | All sectors, Library2.0 |
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Queensland State Library is hosting a visit by Nancy Pearl in December. So if you want to hear from a librarian who inspired an action figure complete with ‘amazing push-button shushing action’, here is your opportunity
Have you got 15 December marked in your calendar? Why? To attend the Nancy Pearl seminar, slq Auditorium 1, State Library of Queensland, Stanley Place, South Bank Brisbane. For just $10, morning tea and lunch included, come, learn and enjoy a day of book lust with the rock star librarian herself. — http://atyourlibrary.slq.qld.gov.au/nancypearl
The website has no details of other events, but apparently there is an Australian tour organised.
November 8th, 2006
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Peta Hopkins | Queensland, Events, All sectors |
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Michael Stephens wants them, Laura Cohen wants them, and LINT wants them too. Librarians want to hear what their leaders think about the profession. Our offer still stands.
If you are a library director who would like to write occasionally but not want to manage a whole blog, why not register as a contributor here on librariesinteract.info? — 8th September comment.
You can forget about templates, spam, rss feeds, feeling obliged to write often and any other worries that inconvenience the lone blogger. All you would need to do is register and write posts occasionally. I’m sure the team here at LINT would be happy to help get you started if you need help. Why not email as at librarian @ librariesinteract.info and one of us can contact you.
If you are a library director with your own blog, do you want it added to our list of Australian Library Blogs?
November 8th, 2006
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Peta Hopkins | About this blog, All sectors, Blogging |
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Have you checked out our list of Australian Library blogs recently? That link top right of every page on this site…. Thanks to Corey we now have a custom Google search so that you can search across all the Australian library blogs we have listed there. He even figured out how we could get the results to display within our page and modified the colours to match! Let us know, if you want your Australian library blog listed and included in the search. You can email us at librarian<@>librariesinteract.info.
Also new, Search LINT is now available in our sidebar to the right. In case you are not sure what LINT is.. it’s our pet name for this blog, derived from LibrariesINTeract. There are now over 100 posts and 198 comments so searching will make it easier to track down the old post you remember from way back last month :-). Thank-you to all those readers who have contributed comments over the months. 198 wow!
We know we have around 150 subscribers to the feed for this blog, but who are you all? Leave a comment here or how about adding a pin to the librariesinteract map. You can include a photo if you like or a short message about where you work or what you’re interested in.
Image by Rileyroxx on Flickr
November 7th, 2006
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Peta Hopkins | About this blog, All sectors, Blogging |
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