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Integrating Libraries & Communities Online: Bookspace

Integrating Libraries & Communities Online: Bookspace.org. Glenn Peterson, Web Administrator Marilyn Turner, Manager, Web Services & Training Hennepin County Library. Hennepin County Library. A county of readers!

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Integrating Libraries & Communities Online: Bookspace

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  1. Integrating Libraries & Communities Online: Bookspace.org Glenn Peterson, Web Administrator Marilyn Turner, Manager, Web Services & Training Hennepin County Library

  2. Hennepin County Library A county of readers! • On average, every suburban Hennepin County resident checked out 17 books, DVDs and CDs in 2006 • This is twice the national average • Redesigning the HCL online readers advisory website in 2006 was a strategic goal

  3. Goals of redesign • Bring together relevant resources for a particular genre or subject. • Allow librarians to easily contribute content to assigned pages without needing any programming knowledge • Allow customers to contribute their own content and share their favorite books with each other. • Allow customers to track and update their contributions and have access to services they are receiving

  4. Bring together relevant resources • Book lists • Author lists • New title information • Librarian tips • Websites • Let’s take a look at the Fiction page

  5. Who is doing this work? • BookSpace Coordinator • Sharon Hilts McGlinn, Senior Librarian in Web Services, IT Division • Hands on developer • BookSpace workgroup (5 librarians) • Chaired by BookSpace coordinator • Overall vision, planning • BookSpace contributors (30 librarians) • Overseen by BookSpace Coordinator • Genre page teams (2 librarians on each) • Book list creators • Author list creators

  6. Allow librarians to easily contribute content • Add and maintain websites • Post to Librarian blog 1-2 times/mo. • Track comments added to blog • Easy to use web forms

  7. Librarian Tools

  8. Goal: Customer Contributed Content • Allow customers to contribute their own content / share their favorite books • Allow customers to track and update their contributions

  9. Social Features • User Comments on books and other titles

  10. Screen shot of comments

  11. Social Features • User Comments • Blogs

  12. Social Features • User Comments • Blogs • Book Lists • staff-created • auto-generated • user-created

  13. Social Features • User Comments • Blogs • Book Lists • “It’s Alive!” • current activity • most active contributors

  14. Social Features • User Comments • Blogs • Book Lists • “It’s Alive!” • User Profiles

  15. Looking Ahead • New ways to connect users • “Users who are reading __, are also reading __” • Facebook “wall” • “Friends”

  16. Looking Ahead • New ways to connect users • “Users who are reading __, are also reading __” • Facebook “wall” • “Friends” • Challenges • control issues

  17. Geek stuff • Database-driven • RSS everywhere • ColdFusion (or ASP, PHP, etc.)

  18. Takeaways • Drawn on library staff • Empower your users • Create opportunities for serendipity • Let users interact

  19. Contact Information Marilyn Turner, mturner@hclib.org Glenn Peterson, gpeterson@hclib.org Slides http://www.hclib.org/extranet

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