Tuesday 4th December
Tools, Technologies and Costs of Web 2.0
Karen Blakeman gave a very clear and precise run down of the tools and technologies which underpin Web 2.0, interesting, but not the wisest choice for me to make as it didn’t really cover anything new. It was a pity Phil Bradley was unable to attend the session as billed.
Wednesday, 5 December 2007
4/12/07 - Library 2.0 - Fact or Fiction
Tuesday 4th December
Library 2.0 - Fact or Fiction?
DRAFT
Track keynote: A tech forecast: Library 2.0 in the real world
Stephen Abram
In a nutshell, it was a very blunt message to librarians - Web 2.0 exists - “get on board or get out the profession”.
For further information try searching for “here comes another bubble” on YouTube - not sure all the content is copyright cleared so I am not putting a direct link in the blog.
Interesting fact - the reference library in Second Life gets 5,000 visits every night.
Philippa Levy
Web 2.0 and the Information Commons: A Learning and Teaching Perspective
Philippa Levy gave the academic perspective on the new Information Commons building at Sheffield and how important a physical space is to support students.
Library 2.0 - Fact or Fiction?
DRAFT
Track keynote: A tech forecast: Library 2.0 in the real world
Stephen Abram
In a nutshell, it was a very blunt message to librarians - Web 2.0 exists - “get on board or get out the profession”.
For further information try searching for “here comes another bubble” on YouTube - not sure all the content is copyright cleared so I am not putting a direct link in the blog.
Interesting fact - the reference library in Second Life gets 5,000 visits every night.
Philippa Levy
Web 2.0 and the Information Commons: A Learning and Teaching Perspective
Philippa Levy gave the academic perspective on the new Information Commons building at Sheffield and how important a physical space is to support students.
4/12/07 - Keynote Speech
Tuesday 4th December
Keynote Speech - Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia and Wikia
Web 2.0 in action: Free culture and community on the move
At one point early in his speech Jimmy Wales described the Wikipedia as the “Red Cross” for information because it is a not for profit organisation, and survives primarily on small donations of between $50 and $100 dollars and without large corporate sponsors or advertisers.
The highlight of his speech for librarians - especially for those involved in information skills - was Wales’ belief in information literacy and an acknowledgement of the importance of checking the sources in Wikipedia. He also seemed to suggest that Wikipedia was unsuitable as a source of reference for school projects much beyond year 8 or 9.
One interesting new development which I hadn’t heard of before from the Wiki foundation is Wikia, a separate organisation which aims to “build the rest of the library”, including the types of reference books which probably wouldn’t be considered viable as economic models for commercial publishers. The example he gave was The Muppet Wikia which contains 15,271 about the Muppets written primarily by a core community of 30 people (who like the Muppets - a lot).
Overall, his speech tended to stress the humanitarian, philanthropic intentions of the Wiki foundation, with clips from a film called “truth in democracy” which will be launched next year, showing how Wikipedia is reaching out to technology poor communities around the world. Just in case we missed the humanitarian message the presentation included a picture of Jimmy Wales with Bono (although I have a feeling it might have been his screen saver) as it wasn’t alluded to during the speech.
Keynote Speech - Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia and Wikia
Web 2.0 in action: Free culture and community on the move
At one point early in his speech Jimmy Wales described the Wikipedia as the “Red Cross” for information because it is a not for profit organisation, and survives primarily on small donations of between $50 and $100 dollars and without large corporate sponsors or advertisers.
The highlight of his speech for librarians - especially for those involved in information skills - was Wales’ belief in information literacy and an acknowledgement of the importance of checking the sources in Wikipedia. He also seemed to suggest that Wikipedia was unsuitable as a source of reference for school projects much beyond year 8 or 9.
One interesting new development which I hadn’t heard of before from the Wiki foundation is Wikia, a separate organisation which aims to “build the rest of the library”, including the types of reference books which probably wouldn’t be considered viable as economic models for commercial publishers. The example he gave was The Muppet Wikia which contains 15,271 about the Muppets written primarily by a core community of 30 people (who like the Muppets - a lot).
Overall, his speech tended to stress the humanitarian, philanthropic intentions of the Wiki foundation, with clips from a film called “truth in democracy” which will be launched next year, showing how Wikipedia is reaching out to technology poor communities around the world. Just in case we missed the humanitarian message the presentation included a picture of Jimmy Wales with Bono (although I have a feeling it might have been his screen saver) as it wasn’t alluded to during the speech.
4/12/07 - Conference Welcome
The conference is a sell-out with delegates from 101 countries, coming for afar a field as Korea and Peru. Conference chair (Alan Dale) in his opening speech believed that we will look back on 2007 as a watershed year for information provision - even the “dawn of a new era”. This change provides challenges and opportunities for information professionals to work in new ways. He cited Lynne Brindley’s recent speech (posted on YouTube by CILIP) at the Umbrella conference as a good example of how we need to be adapting.
Tuesday, 4 December 2007
Arrived.....
Safely, hotel seems very nice (even has a gift shop!), TV includes 2 Uzbekistan TV channels, a German, Japanese and Italian channel and best of all a Golf channel…..
Podcast - Building the Academic Library 2.0
Draft
Meredith Farkas
Building the Academic Library 2.0
This podcast, taken from the Building the Academic Library 2.0 conference which took place recently at the University of California, Berkeley, covers the conference opening and keynote speech by Meredith Farkas. Meredith is probably best know for creating the online course 5 weeks to a social library which ran earlier this year. I haven’t finished the podcast yet, (it is over 1 hour long) but so far she has provided some interesting examples of how libraries are reaching out to their customers:
A US college ran a survey and found that students first port of call when they got a new essay title was to ring their parents for help. In response, the library now runs breakfast orientation sessions for parents, to make sure they are aware of all the resources available to their children.
A US librarian is using her Facebook profile to interact directly with students, through her profile they can make requests for new book purchases. She then alerts them via Facebook when the books are available in the library.
I must go back to this later.
Meredith Farkas
Building the Academic Library 2.0
This podcast, taken from the Building the Academic Library 2.0 conference which took place recently at the University of California, Berkeley, covers the conference opening and keynote speech by Meredith Farkas. Meredith is probably best know for creating the online course 5 weeks to a social library which ran earlier this year. I haven’t finished the podcast yet, (it is over 1 hour long) but so far she has provided some interesting examples of how libraries are reaching out to their customers:
A US college ran a survey and found that students first port of call when they got a new essay title was to ring their parents for help. In response, the library now runs breakfast orientation sessions for parents, to make sure they are aware of all the resources available to their children.
A US librarian is using her Facebook profile to interact directly with students, through her profile they can make requests for new book purchases. She then alerts them via Facebook when the books are available in the library.
I must go back to this later.
Letting the iPod take the strain
Rather use the train journey to London to catch up on library reading and carrying a pile of papers with me, I used the journey to catch up on my podcast listening. I subscribed to the JISC podcasts several months ago, but have about 10 (and all the annual review interviews) to catch up on, plus some new library and web 2.0 programmes I found on iTunes.
Listening to podcasts for work, via my iPod (rather than just entertainment) represents an interesting blurring of the lines between work and leisure. Although I could download the work related podcasts onto my work computer, I suspect I wouldn’t find a good time just to sit and listen to them at work. So does this mean I will be listening to the work-related podcasts while walking or travelling outside work instead of the Archers or Cast On or Mark Kermode’s film reviews? Probably not, but I need to make sure I fit them in somehow - podcast coffee breaks, maybe?
Listening to podcasts for work, via my iPod (rather than just entertainment) represents an interesting blurring of the lines between work and leisure. Although I could download the work related podcasts onto my work computer, I suspect I wouldn’t find a good time just to sit and listen to them at work. So does this mean I will be listening to the work-related podcasts while walking or travelling outside work instead of the Archers or Cast On or Mark Kermode’s film reviews? Probably not, but I need to make sure I fit them in somehow - podcast coffee breaks, maybe?
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