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Books, Bytes Blogs and Wikis

Books, Bytes Blogs and Wikis. Wider Rationales for UWF Libraries New Technology Strategies. Ray Uzwyshyn, Ph.D., MLIS Dept. of Digital and Learning Technologies UWF Libraries, 2008-2009. Library Blog Library Wiki.

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Books, Bytes Blogs and Wikis

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  1. Books, BytesBlogs and Wikis Wider Rationales for UWF Libraries New Technology Strategies Ray Uzwyshyn, Ph.D., MLISDept. of Digital and Learning TechnologiesUWF Libraries, 2008-2009

  2. Library Blog Library Wiki Library Weblog: Books and BytesAvailable from Homepage, Jan 2008Wordpress 2.26 – PHP/MYSQLhttp://library.uwf.eduhttp://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/library Library Task Force WikiInternal, Staff Groups, July 2008Wikimedia – PHP/MySQLhttp://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/tf-wiki-1.12

  3. What are Blogs and Wikis? New Tools to Navigate, Share and Interact with Information - Develop knowledgebases Easily Publishable Online Representations of News or Domains of Knowledge

  4. Why do Weblogs and Wikis matter? • Next generation web tools (evolutionary) • Envision new, dynamic ways to deliver and interact with information • It’s where our users (students) are • Collaboration possibilities have evolved on the Web • Enable opportunities for learning, communication and knowledge development

  5. Advantages • Instant publishing to the Internet • cost little or nothing (open source) • Provide features that open interaction with others • Empowering • allow new avenues for development of thoughts, ideas and materialization of ideas • Exciting and Dangerous: instant feedback regarding our services, announcements and events

  6. Wikis & Blogs Characterized as • Web 2.0 Information Technology Tools Participatory Media • Citizens’ Media • Disruptive Technologies To Publish on the Web

  7. Why are UWF Libraries exploring Weblogs and Wikis? • Keeps the library technologically/ culturally relevant • Keep our digital information space and infrastructure up-to-date • Meets the demographic of changing student/faculty needs

  8. The Millennials (born 1980-2000) Currently largest and most diverse student generation in American history 39% of total population; 36% minority Tech-embracing Generation N Collaboration-oriented Neil Howe and William Strauss, Millennial Rising, Vintage, 2000

  9. Millennial Have Online Democratic Expectations Not trapped in TV paradigmNot interpellated in One Way Epistemic systems. Millennial expect Interaction with Information (Participatory Democracy) Neil Howe and William Strauss, Millennial Rising, Vintage, 2000

  10. Web 2.0: User experience • Information Expectations are changing • Change in the way users consume information/ emphasis on interaction • Subtle changes in technology lead to larger effects

  11. 60% The Web In a virtual setting2) 15% Google3) 12% Weblogs4) 8% Specialized Websites, Wikis 5) 2% From or in a group 6) 2% Cell, PDA, GPS (mobile to a destination) 7) 0.5% From a book/print source 0.3% In a classroom 0.15% From a teacher/professor 10) 0.15% At the library reference desk How can you bestfind relevantinformation? Information Seeking Among 10,000 MillennialPew Foundation Study, 2007 95% Web

  12. Web 2.0: 1998-2008Interactive Web: Explosion of Commenting

  13. Information Sharing, Frank public evaluation 75% of internet users 15-35 regularly rate persons, organizations, or organizational services online

  14. Review By Peers, 1998-2008

  15. Potential of Feedback (2 way communication with Users, Democratic Media, participatory epistemology, participatory democracy)

  16. What are our patrons/students/faculty thinking?

  17. Information Sharing and Evaluation 81% of 15-35 year olds regularly comment on weblogs 35% also post daily on blogs, wikis and social networking sites

  18. Content Creation by Age

  19. Accessing New Information Content 79% of internet users 18-35 subscribe at least 1 blog

  20. Information Customization Two thirds of 15-35 year old internet users use RSS feeds

  21. http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/library

  22. Share Information

  23. Inform

  24. HyperLink to Deeper Web Resources

  25. Permalink and Archive Include Archives (Searchable) http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/library/?p=55 Include unique URL for each post (Permalink)

  26. Save Useful Links

  27. Subscribe

  28. Characteristics of a Blog? Frequently Updated Posts • 1-2/week5-6/month

  29. Relatively Pithy Entries • Information Bytes Rather than ‘Sound Bites’ Death of Literacy - Birth of Digital/Visual/Information/Media Literacy

  30. Brief Focused Announcements / Articles • 2-5 Paragraphs/Entry, Brief Focused with links and images

  31. Emphasis on Current Information Newer Entries Older Entries

  32. Weblog Organization ChronologicalBy Date ThematicBy Category Domains of Knowledge

  33. Sophistication/Scalability is Possible http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/anniversary/ 40th Anniversary Digital Image Archive as Reverse Engineered Weblog

  34. Wikis http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/tf-wiki-1.12

  35. Paradigmatic Shift of Knowledge Production & Dissemination KnowledgeCollaboration Tools OpenEditableVersioningHistorical Progressionof EncyclopediaEpistemicTrajectories Shifting Models ofScholarly Production http://www.wikipedia.org/

  36. Getting Started by Contributing http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/tf-wiki-1.12

  37. Wikis as Workgroup Collaboration/ Learning Tool Universe of Knowledge SpecificDomains of Knowledge Developing, Sharing, Collaborating on Documents

  38. Everything in A Wiki is Open Editable and Reeditable Simpler Nomenclature(little codingexperience needed)Radically OpenArchitecture OrganicMorphology

  39. Versioning Histories Universe of Knowledge NewTaxonomies of Knowledge Nuanced Knowledge Domains Basic Definition Authors, Revisions, Reasons, Versions

  40. InteractivityMedia Specificity, Disruptive Technology, Paradigm Shift New Tools Impact to Prevailing Models :Teaching, Scholarly Infrastructures, Scholarly ProductionKnowledge Production Uncharted Territory, Unexploited, Unexplored

  41. Questions? Library Task Force Wikihttp://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/tf-wiki-1.12 Library Weblog: Books and Byteshttp://library.uwf.eduhttp://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/library Presentation UWF 40th Anniversary Digital Image Library http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/anniversary/Project Briefing: D-Lib Sept/Oct 08: http://www.dlib.org http://library.uwf.edu/weblogwikipresentation.ppt Ray Uzwyshyn, Ph.D., MLISHead, Digital and Learning TechnologiesUWF Libraries, ruzwyshyn@uwf.edu(850)474-2448

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