Library Voice

This is all kinds of wrong, but a hoot nonetheless.

• Dress up Barack
• Dress up Hillary

You can even share your outfit code with others. Have fun.

Business week offers several suggestions for making a good first impression:

Rule #1: Respond within 24 Hours
Rule #2: Greet People with Enthusiasm
Rule #3: Make Eye Contact
Rule #4: Leave Smart Voice Messages
Rule #5: Respect Contacts
Rule #6: Mind Your E-Mail
Rule #7: Remember Small Touches

Learning Objects
Shiu Liu
Colorado State University

A learning object is an online tool that includes a learning objective, a learning process, and assessment of learning, providing an interactive experience, to help learners digest as specifice piece of knowledge, or master how to complete a specific task.

Learning objects are
Digital
Individual
INteractive
Reusable

Learning Objects Repositories

Wisconsin Online Resource Center
12 Cranial Nerves is a good example

Merlot
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching

UTOPIA
utopia.utexas.edu

University System of Georgia: ALT (Advanced Learning Technologies)

Library Resources & Learning Objects
supports 24/7 learning, anytime, anywhere

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Tammy Allgood Digital Delivery and Design Librarian
Arizona State University

Two projects
Board game
online game

Learning objectives
teach library as a physical and virtual spces
library sources
types of resources
basics of catalog
differences between types of sources

Board game introduced Fall 2005
Board game is very easy to do
Began as prototype to computer game
Went through four versions of the board game

Computer game
development began spring 2006
5 people on the development team
skills–web development, flash development, database design, lower division insturction expertise, extensive research in gaming in gaming as an educational tool
hired an outside programmer

Timeline
5 months to develop storyline, documentation
two months for actual desing
character interactions—one month
information retrieval–two weeks
animations–two weeks
bug tracking and documentation—one month

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Trends in Mobile Tools and Applications for Libraries
Megan Fox
Simmmons College

Size of mobile market
75 % of all US adults have cell phones
90% of college students have them
95% of US mobile phoes support text messaging
62 % of subscribers use text messaging regularly
text messaging increased 95% over last year

Samsung B47 supports picture in picture.  Screen rotates to support TV

Nokia N93 has a partnership with Flickr, to upload pics automtically

Audio is advanced on these devices, and they replace the need for a separate mp3 player

iPhone
coolest thing will be the touchscreen
can’t download apps to the iPod, no user-replaceable battery

UMPC
Ultra Mobile Personal Computer
now in 2nd generation
Samsung Q1 Ultra
thumb keyboard on both sides of the screen
battery life is an issue, but they are working on it
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The mobile web
.mobi internet domain
mobisitegalore
businessweek.mobi
fpld.websiteforever.mobi  Freemont Public Library

Zinadoo translates information into mobile
Ball State University  www.bsu/libraries/mobile

Mobile Optimized Catalog
AirPac is a III mobile version of the catalog

Ready reference info is not available on mobile phones  (almanacs, handbooks, etc)
use these resources at the ball game, at the store, at the bar

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The Transcoded Web
Transcoding can be controversial because it distorts the page
Any page can be shoehorned into a mobile device

mobilicious = del.ici.ous on the go

Mobilizing your content
mobifeeds
xfruits

As mobile information becomes more proficient, librarians will need to be more familiar with the objects

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Communicating with library users

Alarama.com.au
company that provides reference service

MagicMessage does this

GizmoSMS
TeleFlip are other webform to phone options

youngest users are heavy texters

Wake Forest has a MobileU pilot program
Library has a mobile style sheet

AirBaruch 
reserve study rooms via the library

ClassInHand
sort of like a clicker system, but works with cell phones

AudibleAir
download audio books via wireless broadband

Guide by cell audio tours

YouTube to go is in the works, as is a mobile Second Life

BallState has videos that work on phones

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mobile for Library staff
Wireless Workstation from III

slides at web.simmons.edu/~fox/mobile

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I’d like to give a hearty thanks to the Computers in Libraries conference organizers for giving me the opportunity to speak again this year. I had a blast talking, and I really enjoyed the hallway conversations that I had with many in attendance. My slides for my presentations are posted below. Should you have any questions about anything, please feel free to contact me.

Computers in Libraries Cybertour. “Wikis for Beginners.” April 17, 2007. (Powerpoint slides)

Computers in Libraries. “Dynamic Instructional Content: Library 2.0 on a Budget.” April 17, 2007. (Powerpoint slides)

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Trends in Mobile Tools and Applications for Libraries
Megan Fox
Simmmons College

Size of mobile market
75 % of all US adults have cell phones
90% of college students have them
95% of US mobile phoes support text messaging
62 % of subscribers use text messaging regularly
text messaging increased 95% over last year

Samsung B47 supports picture in picture.  Screen rotates to support TV

Nokia N93 has a partnership with Flickr, to upload pics automtically

Audio is advanced on these devices, and they replace the need for a separate mp3 player

iPhone
coolest thing will be the touchscreen
can’t download apps to the iPod, no user-replaceable battery

UMPC
Ultra Mobile Personal Computer
now in 2nd generation
Samsung Q1 Ultra
thumb keyboard on both sides of the screen
battery life is an issue, but they are working on it
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The mobile web
.mobi internet domain
mobisitegalore
businessweek.mobi
fpld.websiteforever.mobi  Freemont Public Library

Zinadoo translates information into mobile
Ball State University  www.bsu/libraries/mobile

Mobile Optimized Catalog
AirPac is a III mobile version of the catalog

Ready reference info is not available on mobile phones  (almanacs, handbooks, etc)
use these resources at the ball game, at the store, at the bar

———————————
The Transcoded Web
Transcoding can be controversial because it distorts the page
Any page can be shoehorned into a mobile device

mobilicious = del.ici.ous on the go

Mobilizing your content
mobifeeds
xfruits

As mobile information becomes more proficient, librarians will need to be more familiar with the objects

———————
Communicating with library users

Alarama.com.au
company that provides reference service

MagicMessage does this

GizmoSMS
TeleFlip are other webform to phone options

youngest users are heavy texters

Wake Forest has a MobileU pilot program
Library has a mobile style sheet

AirBaruch 
reserve study rooms via the library

ClassInHand
sort of like a clicker system, but works with cell phones

AudibleAir
download audio books via wireless broadband

Guide by cell audio tours

YouTube to go is in the works, as is a mobile Second Life

BallState has videos that work on phones

—–
mobile for Library staff
Wireless Workstation from III

slides at web.simmons.edu/~fox/mobile

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Marshal Breeding

Characteristics
Multi-tasking
like to collaborate
Innate ability for Technology

New librarians are a part of the millennial generation

Shaping collections for millennial users
content needs to be digital/immediate
discovery—more like the web
access—anytime, anywhere

Marshal says that satisfying the needs of millennials  does not conflict with the needs of users from previous generations.  ***However, from our standpoint, facilities renovations that cater to millennials can often be a balance between collaborative spaces and collections spaces. 

Collections
millennials comfortable with a variety of formats
prefer graphics over text
e-journals
e-books
podcasts of lectures

How do our websites and OPACS meet the needs of today’s users. 

Marshall shows a video of trying to find Time Magazine via a library’s web site

The way that interfaces work is dictated by  the web.  Our users have expectations based upon prior experiences, and library websites/OPACs need to learn from the open web.

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Transcoders such as Squeezit, can transcode a page into a optimized version for a mobile device.

Application versus Browser
Yahoo One Search used to be an app only, that was downloaded to a handheld
Now Yahoo Search is a browser

Gary Price is showing some searches on his Treo.
He’s using PDA Reach from June Fabric to show whatever is on his Palm on a projector.

They are comparing Yahoo vs. Google mobile search.  Google displays larger images, and they are at the top of the results.  The Yahoo mobile search looks like a better product.

Gary is showing the Ask Mobile search.  Ask took away the search box on the main page, so that users can then select which kind of search they want to do.

Other mobile search options
Mobile Answers.com
MS Live
AOL mobile
4info

Gary stresses that some of these search options require a download, and the apps are very phone dependent.  As an example, the Yahoo One Search app does not work with my Treo.

Not everyone has a wireless web plan for their phones, but 95% of today’s phones have text messaging.  There are growing options in this area.
Yahoo has texting, and has alerts
AskMeNow is another one

Gary is showing SoonR, which will allow you to do remote desktop to your office machine
ORB will allow you to stream music from your computer to your mobile device

The slides for the presentation are available here.

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I did not blog the last session.  I looked into my briefcase to find my power cord for my laptop, and it was missing.  In a fitful sweat, I ran upstairs to see if the cord and was in my room.  Fortunately it was, as I had apparently taken it out when trying to lighten my load.  Considering that I will be demoing a number of open source and free apps tomorrow, not having this laptop would have been a very bad problem. 

The last session was was entitled Organization 2.0, and was about how Web 2.0 has changed the way we work and the way our organizations are designed.  Jason Griffey blogged about it here.

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Web 2.0 and What it means to libraries
Lee Rainie, Director of Pew Internet & American Life Project

Lee notes that he “adores librarians.”

Web 2.0 is the web as a platform.

6 Hallmarks of the the Web 2.0 that matter to libraries

1. The internet has become the computer
• The number of people who access the Internet at libraries has doubled in the last four years
• broadband has turned the web into a destination for fun and entertainment
• a lot more people are using the internet every single day
• the experience of the internet has become more social
2.  Lots of people are creating content online
•  social networking sites are the big ones here, Facebook, MySpace
• people are posting more content online. 
• 33 % of college students have blogs
• 12 % of online adults have a blog
• 19% of online young adults have created an avatar and interacted with others online.
3. Even more internet users are accessing the content created by others
• 44% of young adults seek information on Wikipedia
• heaviest users of wikipedia have high levels of education, or are college students in the process of getting an education
4. Many are sharing what they know and what they feel online
• RatemyProfessors.com  as an example
• Amazon book reviews
• 1/3 or online adults have tagged content online
• 25% of younger Internet users have commented on videos, and they also comment of blogs and photos
5. Tens of thousands are contributing knowledge to an online commons
• 10k-30k active developers in the global open source movement
• 40% participate in peer to peer exchanges
6. Americans are customizing their content

5 issues libraries must address

1. navigation–transitioning from linear to nonlinear format
2. context—learning to see connections
3. focus–practicing reflection & deep thinking
4. skepticism–learning to evaluate information
5. ethical behavior–understanding the rules of cyberspace

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