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Libraries and Media Sharing
A library’s existence relies on providing information in various media to its patrons. New “media sharing” sites such as Flicker and YouTube are simply the latest tools libraries and patrons use to exchange information. Using these tools and the power of the Internet, the library can create online communities that share a love of learning.
Week 10: Online Social Networks
This topic is the one I have become the most familiar with, especially over the past few weeks working on the group Facebook project (which all of you should check out!). Personally, out of the networks discussed in this week's readings, I find Facebook to be the most interesting and also have the most options for incorporation into a library.
Week 8 Folksonomies
Folksonomies
Taxonomies were developed to apply an orderly hierarchal structure to knowledge. They rely on users to search for information, using specific terms, in a pre-determined order.
Project Proposal
Project Proposal
Week 7: "Tag, you're it!" Why libraries should be "it".
I've found this week's topic to be really intriguing. I've only recently (well, within the last year or so) gotten into the tagging thing but really hadn't thought about it too much. Though I realized it was a very social thing to do, I really didn't connect it to LIS at all and Lee Rainie's article really showed me the ways in which tagging grew up from LIS. It seems only reasonable that it come back to LIS, too, in that sense.
Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking places people, not data, at the centre of the Internet. By linking people with each other, social software creates communities.
Wikis Open Source Web 2.0
Wiki to wikis
Wikis are a common collaborative tool; its WYSIWYG interface allows users to create and edit content with ease. Because of this ease of use, they have attracted both praise and concern from librarians.
Wikipedia
Wikis
I was part of the group who developed a wiki for this week, so I had the opportunity to explore not only the content provided in the readings and the case studies, but additional wiki information as well. This has allowed me to compare and contrast what I believe makes an effective wiki.
Week Six : Wikilicious
I have worked with and heard more about wikis in the last few weeks than I did in the last few years. We have a wiki at work for our project team, I've been working on one with my group for this course, and of course, doing the readings and boning up on the pros and cons of wikis.
Week 5: RSS and libraries.
The longer I take this course, the more I feel like an old geezer. As a Gen X-er, I always felt like I was pretty "hip" to new trends and scoffed at the notion that Gen-Y-ers or Milennials--or whatever the going term is today--were somehow more adept with technology than me. The further I study the tools in this course, the more I realize how "out of the loop" I really was, and how much this course will benefit me in trying to be a librarian with a fresh perspective on technology.