Bring IT to you library!

Transcript Bring IT to you library!

Bring IT to your library!
OLA 2006 | OLA/IT Roundtable Poster
Do you have these ITs @ your library?
• Blog
• RSS
• Wiki
• Podcasting
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Blog software for libraries
Purpose, criteria & selection | Adrienne Butler ODL
• Internal Communication
• Online information storage
• Tracking reoccurring
reference questions
• Internal library concerns
External Communication
Updating patrons on library activities
Communicating with patrons
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Criteria
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Define your library needs
What server specifications?
What features do you want included?
Cost – How much can you afford?
Free IS an option!
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Library Needs
• One or more authors?
• One or more blogs?
• To host or not to
host?
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Server Specifications
• What language do you speak? – Perl, PHP, MySQL,
Access/Oracle, PostgreSQL, Windows…
• Your server software concerns – any incompatibility
problems with preloaded software?
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Blog features to consider
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Calendar
Customizable Templates
Search feature
Spell-check feature for authors
RSS feed
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Cost
Or, really, really cheap.
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Find Blog software
• CMS Review
• www.cmsreview.com/Weblogs/BlogDirectory.html
• Blog Software Breakdown
• www.asymptomatic.net/blogbreakdown.htm
• MicroContent News
• www.microcontentnews.com/articles/blogware.htm
• Sourceforge
• http://sourceforge.net
• Free Software Foundation
• http://directory.fsf.org/ (click on “live communications” then
“online journaling”.
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A few Blog softwares available
Blog Software
Cost
Host
Greymatter
Free
Your Server Perl to flat-file
WordPress
Free
Your Server PHP/MySQL
or Remote
PWAIN
Free
Your Server Windows
Planarchy
Free
Your Server Windows
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Language
For more information on blogs:
• Contact
Adrienne Butler
Oklahoma Department of Libraries
[email protected]
405.522.3505
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RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
What are they and why would you want them? | Jeff Siddons Tulsa Community College
• a marketing tool for the library.
• a time-saving tool for people - it pulls all your
regularly visited websites & blogs into one
place.
• a way to communicate updates to many people
easily.
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What are they?
It's a method of summarizing the latest news and
information from a website . . .
. . . that can be easily read and accessed by
many news readers . . .
. . . from your website.
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Content
Webfeed
RSS
XML
Web feeds provide web content or summaries
of web content together with links to the full versions
of the content. RSS in particular, delivers this
information as an XML file called
an RSS feed.
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What are they?
RSS feeds are just a special kind of web page, designed to be
read by computers rather than people.
“It might help to think of them as the free, internet version
of the old-fashioned ticker-tape news wire machines.”
RSS is an alternative to spam-type email. Sites use it to notify
users that a site has been updated or a new “news story” is up
instead of sending email.
RSS is a family of web feed* formats …
*a web feed is a document which contains content items, often
summaries or web-blog posts with web links to longer versions.
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Web feeds & XML
Web feeds work through XML to make Web Syndication possible
*XML = Extensible Markup Language.
A markup language combines text and information about the text.
The extra information, for example about the text's style or look, is expressed
using markup, which is intermingled with the text. The best-known markup
language in modern use is HTML (HyperText Markup Language) one of the
foundations of the World Wide Web.
An example: <A HREF="/booksintro.htm"><IMG >
*Web syndication is a form of syndication in which a section of a website is
made available for other sites to use.
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What exactly are these RSS files?
• RSS files are metadata. Until you've used them or seen an
example, it may not be easy to understand what RSS files are,
but they are easy to create.
• An RSS file commonly contains four main types of elements:
channel, image, items, and text input. These elements are easy
to identify and code.
A sample item in RSS:
(don’t let it scare you – they aren’t rocket science)
<item> <title>Mozilla Dispenses with Old, Proprietary DOM</title>
<link>http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=604</link>
<description>The Mozilla team has decided to forgo backwards
compatibility with Netscape's proprietary DOM.</description>
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In addition to facilitating syndication, web
feeds allow a website's frequent readers to
track updates on the site using an
aggregator*.
*Aggregators reduce the time and effort needed to regularly
check websites for updates, creating a unique information
space or “personal newspaper.”
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So who is doing it?
Your library: If you run your own website, it’s simple
to use RSS feeds to display the latest headlines from
other websites on your site! Then step up to the next level up & use
RSS to communicate in other ways.
Be creative!
Cincinnati Public Library
http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/feeds/
Kansas City Public Library
http://www.kclibrary.org/rss/
University of Oklahoma Libraries
http://libraries.ou.edu/rss/
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How do I find these RSS feeds
Look for the RSS symbols or acronym on
the site’s home page:
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How can I read these feeds?
You can download and install a news reader. Or, you can
use a Web based reader such as My Yahoo! or Bloglines.
Follow the instructions in your reader to subscribe to the feed
of your choice. You will usually need to copy and paste the
feed URL into the reader.
Check it out
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There are many sources for RSS feeds
U.S. Government RSS Library Featured Sites:
White House RSS Feeds &
Podcasts from the U.S. Government
• Science RSS Feeds
News about current weather, earthquakes, energy and the latest
research...
• Data and Statistics RSS Feeds
Updates on Census and agricultural data and statistics...
• Environment, Energy & Agriculture RSS Feeds
News on conservation, forests, farms, human nutrition, hazardous waste,
toxic chemicals and trash...
• And many more . . .
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Want more help?
RSS For Non-Techie Librarians:
http://www.llrx.com/features/rssforlibrarians.htm
Amigos Website RSS Feeds: what, why &
how:
http://www.amigos.org/rss/
So what are you waiting for?
Now that you know what RSS feeds are . . .
it’s time to start using them!
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Questions concerning RSS:
Contact:
Jeff Siddon
Tulsa Community College
[email protected]
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Wiki
What is it and how can you use it | Adriana Edwards-Johnson SWOSU
• A wiki is a type of website that allows anyone
visiting the site to add, remove, or otherwise
edit all content, quickly and easily, often without
the need for registration. This ease of
interaction and operation makes a wiki an
effective tool for collaborative writing.
One of the most famous wikis is Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org
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Uses for a library
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Book discussion group
Teen group activities
Library & community events calendar
High tech “vertical file” for local information
Reference Desk handouts
Staff training
Library policy manual
Professional networking (http://www.libsuccess.org/)
And much more…
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Who’s using wikis?
• University of South Carolina Aiken Library
• http://library.usca.edu/Main/HomePage
• University of Connecticut Library Staff
• http://wiki.lib.uconn.edu/wiki/Main_Page
• University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
Library School (unofficial)
• http://www.gslis.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
• SJCPL Reference Department
• http://www.libraryforlife.org/subjectguides/index.php
/Main_Page
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How do you get started?
1. Decisions to make:
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Type of information the wiki will contain
Type of wiki software you want
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_software
Who all will be able to access change the wiki
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Limit access by: IP Address, Domain, or server location (internal
access only)
2. Installing the software
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If you plan to host the wiki on your library’s server you may
need help from your IT person. Sometimes installation can
be hindered by server settings.
3. Learn the wiki syntax
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Wiki syntax | HTML | What you see
Wiki syntax
"''Doctor''? No other title? A
''scholar''? And he rates above
the civil authority?"
"Why, certainly," replied Hardin,
amiably. "We're all scholars
more or less. After all, we're not
so much a world as a scientific
foundation—under the
direct control of the Emperor."
HTML

"Doctor? No other
title? A scholar?
And he rates above the civil
authority?"


"Why, certainly,"
replied Hardin, amiably.
"We're all scholars more
or less. After all, we're not so
much a world as a scientific
foundation—under the
direct control of the
Emperor."

What you see
"Doctor? No other title? A scholar?
And he rates above the civil
authority?"
"Why, certainly," replied Hardin,
amiably. "We're all scholars more
or less. After all, we're not so much
a world as a scientific
foundation—under the direct
control of the Emperor.
Examples from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
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Unique Wiki features
Unlike other web tools wiki’s allow users to view changes made to
the pages.
So if there are problems or errors it’s easy to track user and make
corrections.
Wiki’s also come with a built in search function
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Need more information?
• Dee Knows Grotto
• http://www.deeknow.com/wiki/view.pl/WikiBeginnersTopics
• Evowiki
• http://www.evowiki.org/wiki.phtml?title=Wiki_evolution
• How Wikis Work
• http://computer.howstuffworks.com/wiki.htm
• Wiki Science
• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wiki_Science
• Wikis unplugged
• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikis_unplugged
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Questions concerning Wikis:
Contact:
Adri Edwards-Johnson
SWOSU
[email protected]
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Podcasting
What is it & how to IT in your library | Jason Gonzales Muskogee Public Library
A World Wide Web – based form of
broadcasting that allows anyone with a
computer and/or digital media device (ex.
iPod, MP3 player) to download and listen to
content.
Users listen to exactly what they want,
when they want, and where they want.
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Podcasts & Genres
POP CULTURE
ABC’s Lost
web sites
PARENTING
Mommycast
NPR
TALK
P.O.V.
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Supplies needed
computer &
microphone
library staff
the Internet
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YOUR OWN LIBRARY PODCAST
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Why Podcast?
• Use a podcast as an
inexpensive way to
market your library’s
services!
• A library podcast can
consist of anything,
including upcoming
events, material reviews,
interviews, information
on services, general all
around library promotion.
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Further Podcast Information
• Secrets of Podcasting (basic book on podcasting)
by Bart G. Farkas
• Real Beginner’s Guide to Podcasting
• http://www.podcastfreeamerica.com/the-real-beginnersguide-to-podcasting
• iTunes 6 (free software for searching & listening to podcasts)
• http://www.apple.com/itunes/
• Yahoo! Podcasts (directory of podcasts)
• http://podcasts.yahoo.com/
• Audacity (free software for recording & editing podcasts)
• http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
• Podomatic (free site to host your podcast)
• http://www.podomatic.com/
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Podcasts Refence Page
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ABC’s Lost
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Blue Grass Talk Radio
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http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/podcasts/
http://www.bluegrasstalkradio.com/
Cramer Radio
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http://www.thestreet.com/tsc/podcast
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ESPN Mix
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• http://espnradio.espn.go.com/espnradio/podcast/index
Inside the Net
• http://twit.tv/
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Mommycast
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NPR
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http://joelcrowservo.podomatic.com/
Radio Leo
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http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php
P.O.V. with David W. Torrence
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http://www.mommycast.com/
http://www.leoville.tv/radio/
Science Friday
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http://www.sciencefriday.com/feed/
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Questions concerning Podcasts:
Contact:
Jason Gonzales
Muskogee Public Library
[email protected]
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