Reinventing Ourselves as Internet Librarians

Slide 1: Reinventing Ourselves as Internet Librarians Internet Librarian International 2006 By Greg R. Notess SearchEngineShowdown.com

Slide 2: Information Landscape Change 2

Slide 3: Search Engine Changes MSN Search to Live.com  Exalead New Interface  Google Sub page results  Mid Page Results  3

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Slide 8: Commercial Databases Interface Changes  Once a year?  Content Changes  Sometimes daily  8

Slide 9: The Internet Librarian What are We?

Slide 10: Reinventing Ourselves? New Skills vs. Old Skills  10

Slide 11: Web 2.0 Screencasts Blogs AJAX XML FRBR CMS XHTML Perl CSS HTML RSS MODS Wikis JavaScript PodCasts Library 2.0

Slide 12: Controlled Reference Interview Vocabulary MARC MeSH Thesauri Concept Codes Info Literacy UDC Classification Verification Boolean Boolean Doc Types

Slide 13: New(er) Technologies . . Ipod, Video Ipod  Eye Piece for Web Browsing  Blackberry  Sony Ebook Reader  13

Slide 14: Using all these? Remove the physical library  Roving librarian  Becomes  A Gadget Covered Librarian?  14

Slide 15: Or Vox? from The Time Machine (2002)  Orlando Jones as Vox  15

Slide 16: Librarians as Sponge?  16

Slide 17: What’s our future? Use only blogs, wikis, IM, . . . ?  Focus only on new  technology? Forget our old skills?  17

Slide 18: No & Ye s

Slide 19: Reinvention Does Not Need to Ignore our strengths  Forget our skills  Or ignore tech failures  19

Slide 20: Absorb and Share More Maintain strengths from past  Build on them with  Future technology  20

Slide 21: Collection Print & Online  More to buy than ever before  Experiment with new offerings  21

Slide 22: Organize Increasingly complex  E-collections in catalog  -or- separate database OpenURL, CrossRef  Much still to solve  22

Slide 23: Teaching/Instruction One on one or Group  As we push our resources  Push instruction online  Screencasting  23

Slide 24: Reference Service Face to face continues  More tech questions  Virtual reference  24

Slide 25: Potential & Pitfalls Blog:  Quick Website  msusymposium  “Can’t find anything worthwhile”  25

Slide 26: Potential & Pitfalls RSS Reality  Alerts  News feeds  Engineering Village  RSS feeds and Blog button  26

Slide 27: Wiki Wake-Up Shared Editing  User Contributions  Conference Wikis  Empty Wikis?  Forums?  27

Slide 28: Hype Meter How self centered?  Blogs about blogging  Diggs about Digg  Wikis about wikis  Beware closed conversations  28

Slide 29: Web 2.0 Reality Embedding Content  YouTube, iRows  Shared Editing  ZohoPlanner, ZohoSheet  29

Slide 30: Implementation Matters Can we out-Google Google?  Sirsi Catalog  Include cover screen shots  Table of contents  Summaries  30

Slide 31: Audience Matters Can we out-Amazon Amazon?  WorldCat  User Contributed Reviews  Does WorldCat Audience Want?  31

Slide 32: New Technologies Worthwhile to try  Good Tech PR  Find the Winners  Test your Audience  32

Slide 33: The Internet Librarian Old skills and sources  Side by Side with the New  Continual Learning  Soak Up New Knowledge  Experiment, and Share  33

Slide 34: Thank You