Welcome!
Created for a Kent State University School of Library and Information Science workshop.
Students will discover how libraries are using Web 2.0 tools, such as blogs, RSS feeds, wikis, social communities, podcasts, and various mash-ups, to give library users increased ownership in their library interactions. Students will investigate the major principles and applications, while developing an understanding of the library-specific issues. Topics of discussion may include privacy, trust or abuse of these technologies, policy considerations, factors to implementation, and optimization in the library environment. In addition, students will look at how users are creating tools to supplement and/or replace their experience with libraries.
Required Readings for KSU SLIS Workshop
- Best of the Best Web 2.0 Web Sites
- This blog entry at Software Development in the Real World tries to list the best of the best in Web 2.0.
- DaVinci Institute - Future of Libraries
- Thomas Frey of the DaVinci Institute put together his 10 key trends related to the future of libraries.
- Library 2.0
- Michael E. Casey and Laura C. Savastinuk (September 1, 2006, LibraryJournal.com) describe the Library 2.0 movement, including links to additional resources.
- What is Web 2.0
- Lets read about Web 2.0 from the original person to coin the term, Tim O'Reilly.
e3 Information Overload AND Are You 2.0 Yet?
One of Brian Gray's Blogs
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byExtra Readings or Collaborative Environments
Topic is specifically Web 2.0 or Library 2.0 in nature.
Library 2.0 Interest Group on Facebook
A place to connect with librarians, MLS students, more...2 points
Read Write Connect - ALA & Web 2.0
Links to various ALA web 2.0 applications and tool more...1 point
Library 2.0 on Ning
Ning network for librarians and others interested more...0 points
Librarians and Facebook (on Facebook)
Discussion of how librarians are using Facebook to more...0 points
Library 2.0 - Wikipedia
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Library 2.0 Reading List
Squidoo site for Library 2.0 Reading List for the more...0 points
ALA Library 2.0 Bootcamp
ALA sponsored workshop and collaboration on web 2. more...0 points
The Long Tail on Squidoo
The theory of the Long Tail is that our culture an more...0 points
Brian Gray on SlideShare
Various past presentations from Brian C. Gray.0 points
Library 2.0 on SuprGlu
Collection of links to various Library 2.0 posting more...0 points
Academic Library 2.0 on Squidoo
This lens is designed to keep readers up to date o more...0 points
Introduction to Web 2.0 on Squidoo
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Libraries, Librarians, & Information
Libraries, Librarians, & Information
Web 2.0 Tools - Audio, Pictures, and Video
Online sites, software, FAQs, or tutorials for and about multimedia.
- Audacity
- Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
- Flickr - Photo Sharing
- Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application. Show off your favorite photos to the world, securely and privately show photos to your friends and family, or blog the photos you take with a cameraphone.
- Hipcast
- Create audio, podcasts, or videocasts by various options including online, upload, or telephone.
- Media Convert
- Converting sound, text and video files.
- Picasa
- Picasa is a free software download from Google that helps you find, organize and share your photos.
- Polar Rose
- Polar Rose makes photos searchable by analyzing their content and recognizing the people in them.
- SlideShare
- A place to share and discover slideshows. Upload slides, share with links, embed in blogs, tagging, etc.
- YouTube
- Video sharing site.
- VideoDownloader
- Download direct from most video sites.
- vixy.net
- This service allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube's videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online.
- Media Converter - the fastest free online audio and video converter
- Convert your media files from your hard disk, by url/stream (http,ftp,mms,rtsp) or directly from Blip.tv, Break.com, Dailymotion, LiveVideo, MetaCafe, Veoh or Youtube. Many file types are supported!
Web 2.0 Tools - Blogging
Online sites, software, FAQs, or tutorials for and about blogging.
- b2evolution
- Free, open source, multilingual, multiuser, multiblog software.
- Blogger
- Blogging software owned and powered by Google.
- Bloggies - Weblog Awards
- The Weblog Awards are a non-profit project created in 2001 to award the best blogs. All the Bloggie winners are chosen by the public.
- Movable Type
- Blogging platform for organizations.
- WordPress
- Semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
- Vox
- Vox is a free hosted social blogging service that lets people connect through privacy controls, design templates, publishing tools, photos, videos & online neighborhoods. Join today!
Web 2.0 Tools - Bookmarking & Tagging
Online sites, software, FAQs, or tutorials for and about tagging.
- CiteULike
- CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there's no need to type them in yourself. It all works from within your web browser. There's no need to install any special software.
- claimID.com
- Manage your online identity.
- coComment
- coComment keeps track of all the online conversations you're following in one convenient place, and informs you whenever something is added to a conversation. Publish your conversations to your blog in a click, or send them to your friends via email. Check out the top commenters, what articles and posts are generating the most comments, who's commenting on the same conversations as you.
- Connotea
- Free online reference management for all researchers, clinicians and scientists.
- del.icio.us
- Social bookmarking web site.
- Digg
- Digg is a user driven social content website.
- Squidoo
- Squidoo builds a lens - one person's view on a topic that matters to him/her. It's an easy-to-build, single web page that can point to blogs, favorite links, RSS feeds, Flickr photos, Google maps, eBay auctions, CafePress designs,
- SuprGlu
- SuprGlu helps you gather your content from all over the web and publish in one place. Brought to you by Iridesco, Inc.
Web 2.0 Tools - Collaboration & Productivity
- Basecamp
- Basecamp is a web-based tool that lets you manage and track projects (or simply ideas) and quickly create client/project extranets. It lets you and your clients (or just your own internal team) keep your conversations, ideas, schedules, to-do lists, and more in a password-protected central location.
- Google Docs & Spreadsheets
- Online tool for individual or group document creation and editing.
- SurveyMonkey.com
- SurveyMonkey.com is a revolutionary new tool to create and publish custom surveys in minutes, and then view results graphically and in real time.
- Ta-da Lists
- Simple, sharable to-do lists.
- Writeboard
- Writeboards are sharable, web-based text documents that let you save every edit, roll back to any version, and easily compare changes.
- Zoho
- Zoho offers a suite of online web applications geared towards increasing your productivity and offering easy collaboration. Zoho's online office tools include a word processor, spreadsheet application, presentation tool, hosted wiki, notebook, CRM etc.
Web 2.0 Tools - Gaming
Online sites, software, FAQs, or tutorials for and about gaming.
- eGames Generator
- eGames Generator allows you to create your own custom learning games. Corporate trainers, educators, teachers, and parents use eGames Generator to add more challenge and interactivity to their learning programs. Since eGames Generator is online software, there are no downloads or messy installations necessary: you can have your first game published in just a few minutes, and it's entirely free!
- Second Life
- Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents.
- Second Life Library 2.0 Blog
- Second Life Library 2.0 Blog
- Second Life Wiki
- Wiki established for and by the members of Second Life.
Web 2.0 Tools - GIS & Mapping
- Frappr!
- Frappr! is the Web's community mapper.
Web 2.0 Tools - Instant Messaging & Other Communication Tools
Online sites, software, FAQs, or tutorials for and about instant messaging.
- Gaim
- Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows.
- Meebo
- Web-based instant messaging application that combines all the major IM services into one.
- Skype
- Internet call software and service.
- Trillian
- Cerulean Studios makes Trillian and Trillian Pro, both are software applications for instant messaging. Compatible with all the major IM applications.
Web 2.0 Tools - Library Specific Tools
- Library Elf
- Personal reminder service for library users. Avoid library overdues with email alerts. Also offering text message alerts for holds. Elf - reminder and notification service developed for library users by library users.
- LibraryThing
- LibraryThing catalogs your books online, easily, quickly and for free.
- Scriblio
- Scriblio (formerly WPopac) is an award winning, free, open source CMS and OPAC with faceted searching and browsing features based on WordPress. Scriblio is a project of Plymouth State University, supported in part by the Andrew
Web 2.0 Tools - Mashups
Online sites, software, FAQs, or tutorials for and about mashups.
- Mashup Dashboard
- Hundreds of mashups with new updates daily.
- Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix
- ProgrammableWeb's Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix
Web 2.0 Tools - RSS
Online sites, software, FAQs, or tutorials for and about RSS feeds & readers.
- Attensa
- Free RSS reader for use with Microsoft Outlook.
- BlogBridge
- Desktop application for reading RSS feeds.
- Bloglines
- Web-based RSS reader, including blogging capabilities.
- Feed2JS
- Feed2JS website provides a free service to have RSS content displayed on your own web page with any programming skills.
- FeedBurner
- FeedBurner is a provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. It offers tools to help bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers promote, deliver and profit from their content on the Web.
- Google Reader
- Google's RSS Reader in its "lab".
- neomyz - RSS Web Reader
- The Neomyz RSS Web Reader is an easy way to put the latest news, from almost any news feed or news server in the world, directly into your own website. Now you can have the latest news on your pages, automatically updated for you 24 hours a day.
- NewsGator
- Free web-based RSS aggregator or various for money installation options.
- Rojo
- Web-based RSS reader.
- RSS Aggregator on Wikipedia
- An aggregator or news aggregator or feed reader is client software that uses a web feed to retrieve syndicated web content such as weblogs, podcasts, vlogs, and mainstream mass media websites, or in the case of a search aggregator, a customized set of search results.
- RSS Builder
- RSS Builder is a free, easy to use program to create RSS news feeds and podcasts for your web site. It provides a simple interface that lets you add topics, links, content, and enclosures, then publish the RSS feed to your web server, using the built-in FTP client.
- RSS Compendium - RSS Search
- These are links to major RSS feeds search tools. This list will eventually be turned into a database.
- RSS from Wikipedia
- RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news feeds or podcasts.
- RSS Readers
- A directory of feed readers, which are used to scan or read many sites at once.
- RSS Search Engines on Search Engine Watch
- Part two of our series on RSS takes a look at the specialized search tools that help you locate content in blogs, feeds and other sources of information.
Web 2.0 Tools - Search Engines
Online sites, software, FAQs, or tutorials for and about search engines.
- BlogPulse
- BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs. Blogs, a term that is short for weblogs, represent the fastest-growing medium of personal publishing and the newest method of individual expression and opinion on the Internet. BlogPulse applies machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques to discover trends in the highly dynamic world of blogs.
- Feedster
- Feedster is a search engine for RSS feeds and created content.
- Google Blog Search
- Find blogs on your favorite topics.
- KartOO
- KartOO is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, KartOO launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorithm.
- LibWorm: Librarianship RSS Search and Current Awareness
- LibWorm is intended to be a search engine, a professional development tool, and a current awareness tool for people who work in libraries or care about libraries.
- Podscope
- Podscope lets you search the spoken word for audio and video that interests you.
- Podzinger
- PODZINGER is an audio and video search engine.
- Technorati
- Searchs, surfaces, and organizes blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.).
- Top 25 Web 2.0 Search Engines
- Online Education Database's Top 25 Web 2.0 Search Engines as of Tuesday 6th of February, 2007.
Web 2.0 Tools - Social & Collaborative Networks
- Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you.
- Friendster
- Friendster is a global social network emphasizing genuine friendships and the discovery of new people through friends. Search for old friends and classmates, stay in better touch with friends, share photos and videos, and so much more!
- LinkedIn strengthens and extends your existing network of trusted contacts. LinkedIn is a networking tool that helps you discover inside connections to recommended job candidates, industry experts and business partners.
- MySpace
- MySpace is an online community that lets you meet your friends' friends.
- Ning
- Users can create their own public or private social network.
Web 2.0 Tools - Wiki
Online sites, software, FAQs, or tutorials for and about wikis.
- JotSpot
- Watch for this to develop. JotSpot was bought by Google and will be Google's wiki platform in the future.
- LISWiki
- The Library and Information Science Wiki, a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
- PBwiki
- PBwiki lets you quickly set up your own free, hosted, password-protected wiki to edit and share information. It's as easy as a peanut butter sandwich.
- PBwiki Central / PBwikiTips
- PBwiki Central hosts a categorized list of public wikis created by users. You'll also find tips here on using PBwiki.
- Seedwiki
- With a free account you can start as many wikis as you want. You can also use your account to subscribe to change notifications. We have no ads on seedwiki, and no limits on the number of wikis or number of pages you can create. If you want to limit who can see or edit your wiki, you will need a paid account. Unless a wiki has a password, or is a members-only, anyone can read and edit wiki pages, with or without an account. You can turn a wiki into any kind of site you want, from a to-do list to a full blown commercial web site. Every part of your wiki is customizable, from the color of the backgrounds to the words on the menu buttons. If the built in features aren't enough to do what you want, we're here to help you with custom wiki consulting.
- Wikimedia Foundation
- A variety of tools, collaborative efforts, and software.
- Wikimedia Text Examples
- Help sheet for WikiMedia text formatting examples.
- WikiMatrix
- WikiMatrix provides tools to compare and pick the best wiki application for you.
- XWiki
- XWiki is an open source wiki written in Java and released under the LGPL license. XWiki offers all the features that you can find in a typical wiki. In addition, XWiki is a second generation wiki (a.k.a an application wiki), ideally suited for developing collaborative web applications.
- PBwiki Educational Advisory Board
- This is a wiki where people collaborate on making PBwiki easier and more useful for educators.
- Education Wikis - Engage, Collaborate & Educate | PBwiki.com
- PBwiki lets you quickly set up your own free, hosted, password-protected wiki to edit and share information. It's as easy as a peanut butter sandwich.
- PBwiki Presenter Packs
- If you're giving a presentation about PBwiki or wikis in general, we're thrilled to offer our PBwiki Presenter Packs to you--for free.
- PBwiki Presenter Pack Information
- Access to presentations included with Presenter Pack.
Blogs Talking Web/Librarian 2.0
blyberg.net
John Blyberg - Self proclaimed library geek.1 point
The Shifted Librarian
Personal blog of Jenny Levine, who is the Internet more...1 point
Techcrunch
Tracking Internet Startups and Web 2.01 point
Infodoodads
5 librarians review online info tools.1 point
LibraryCrunch
Service for the Next Generation Library: A Library more...0 points
ALA TechSource Blog
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See Also...
A library weblog by Steve Lawson.0 points
Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology
Personal blog of Michael Stephens.0 points
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
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MaisonBisson.com
Blog of Casey Bisson, the creator of WPopac.0 points
Superpatron
Edward Vielmetti is a patron of the Ann Arbor Dist more...0 points
blogwithoutalibrary.net
Amanda Etches-Johnson writes mostly about librarie more...0 points
Library 2.0 - Examples in Action
Some fine examples of web 2.0 being used by libraries.
Hennepin County Library
Offers rss feeds, comments within library catalog, more...0 points
Ann Arbor District Library
Web site is driven by blogging software.0 points
Blog@Case - Case Western Reserve University Blog System
Open to all CWRU faculty, staff, and students. The more...0 points
Blog@Case: Topics
This blog system is open to all CWRU faculty, staf more...0 points
Kelvin Smith Library
News on homepage is driven by a blog.0 points
KSL Reference Weblog
Highlights resources and news for reference staff more...0 points
Lamson Library
Driven by WPopac. It is an OPAC - a library catalo more...0 points
SuperPatron - Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, MI
Edward Vielmetti has created various web 2.0 tools more...0 points
CaseWiki - Case Western Reserve University
The Case Wiki is an encyclopedic reference about C more...0 points
St. Joseph County Public Library - Subject Guides
SJCPL has created its subject guides using wiki so more...0 points
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