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Web2.0 Services and the Management of Academic Libraries. Dr. Christian Hänger Christine Krätzsch. Outline About us: University of Mannheim Learning from Web 2.0 Reviews in the online catalog Blog for library news Collaborative Tagging Conclusion. Challenges for Academic Libraries
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Web2.0 Services and the Management of Academic Libraries Dr. Christian Hänger Christine Krätzsch
Outline • About us: University of Mannheim • Learning from Web 2.0 • Reviews in the online catalog • Blog for library news • Collaborative Tagging • Conclusion
Challenges for Academic Libraries • The changing expectations of future students • Financial pressure • Libraries as communities
What do we want to do? Improve the library's (online) marketing Learning from Web 2.0
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Objectives of the blog • Communication between library and customer • Rapid response to the needs of the customers • Evaluation of services
User acceptance • Dialog between usersand library • Average of 6 comments per post • Blog can be used for library management
Initial position • Growing amount of electronic documents available • No subject indexing • Financial pressure
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Automated document indexing • Concept-based indexing by Collexis search engine • Project “Automated indexing and semantic search applications for economic journal articles” (2007 -2009)
Automated document indexing • Concept-based indexing by Collexis search engine • Project “Automated indexing and semantic search applications for economic journal articles” (2007 -2009)
Collaborative tagging of electronic documents • Collaborative tagging: users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared documents • Combination of automated indexing and tagging
Intentions of the project • Tagging as a new service for the customers of academic libraries • Reference for document annotation – automated or tagging
Conclusion • Community building as a new role for academic libraries • Using the collaborative intelligence of our customers
Thank you for your attention! Contact: haenger@mail.uni-mannheim.de kraetzsch@mail.uni-mannheim.de