Thank you to the attendees who took time to complete the evaluation forms. We appreciate the feedback and thought you might like to hear what others were thinking….
34 out of 40 respondents indicated that they were expecting to learn more about new technologies/web 2.0/library2.0
Only 1 person did not have their expectations met — we were glad to see that we’d pleased most of you!
Top 3 things you wished had been covered more fully
Facebook
Application of tools for specific client groups
Second Life - even though we had a presentation in the morning, demonstrations and a hands-on session in the afternoon. This is clearly a hot topic.
Top 3 things nominated as best part of the seminar…
20 cool 2.0 tools
Second Life sessions
Everything – I kid you not, 5 people nominated everything as the best
Peta Hopkins, Information Systems Librarian, Bond University
This session provided a brief introduction to social bookmarking and then a hands-on session using Connotea for saving and sharing citations.
Attendees set up a Connotea account, added bookmarks to their library, added openURL resolvers to their settings to streamline access to their institution’s holdings.
Kurt Vollmerhause, from QUT, gave a demonstration of Librarything – the social networking site for bibliophiles.
Kurt showcased the basics as well as other features like widgets and the exciting LTFL service which provides OPAC (read library catalogue) enhancements such as tagging and options to track down related editions.
View the presentation – it contains links out to Librarything, and a list of libraries that have implemented LTFL so you can see it in action.
David Allen (Queensland State Library) and Peta Hopkins (Bond University) with the help of some audience members introduced 20, or thereabouts, cool,web 2.0 tools. The list, originally published at Peta’s blog, Inn0vate, is reproduced here.
RSS tools Page2RSS – create a feed for a page that doesn’t have one Blogsieve – feed processing, mix and filter a number of feeds. Build a single feed on a topic. Odiogo – convert your feed to audio
There were a couple of other tools mentioned by the audience that are not listed here. Can you remember what they were? Please add a link in a comment.
Cameron Barnes, eAccess Librarian from the University of New England dazzled us with his sparkling wit during his presentation on social networking.
Cameron answered a few questions such as: What do social network sites offer insitutions, who uses them and why are they popular. He also covered some of the legal implications and other risks associated with these sites, especially for institutions.
Gina Velli’s presentation on MySpace was very interesting. Not least because she thinks MySpace is not such the cool place it once was since the rise of Facebook. Gina is currently working at State Library of Queensland as a legal deposit librarian.
Mary Kajewski, State Library of Queensland introduced MySpace and went on to showcase some library pages on the site. These included the American Library Association’s “At your library”, University of Melbourne’s Rowden White Library where “chatting and sleeping” is encouraged in the listening lounge, and UofM’s Baillieu Library that has an “Art in the Library” space.
Greg Pendlebury (electronic services officer) and Sandra Cochrane (Faculty Librarian) from the University of Southern Queensland talked about the use of a wiki by students. The wiki was designed to “facilitate a social learning activity for information seeking learning.”
Kathryn Greenhill, Murdoch University Library, not only gave this very informative presentation, she also took some participants for a hands-on experience of Second Life, and took part in the panel discussion in the afternoon.
Margaret Schindler, University of Queensland, also gave a demonstration of SL to another group in the afternoon.
Do you have any questions for Kathryn or Margaret about Second Life?
Andrew Bennett from the University of Queensland Library posed the question “What if your SOE went Web 2.0?” and then took us on a tour of services like Zoho and Google Docs as potential platforms for standard operating environments.
Andrew reveals the advantages of these kinds of services and also raises some issues to be considered such as scalability for largish organisations, archival and preservation requirements and security of data. Clearly though he thought it was a safe bet to publish his presentation on Google Docs.
