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Reinventing Ourselves as Internet Librarians

Reinventing Ourselves as Internet Librarians. Internet Librarian International 2006 By Greg R. Notess SearchEngineShowdown.com. Information Landscape. Change. Search Engine Changes. MSN Search to Live.com Exalead New Interface Google Sub page results Mid Page Results.

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Reinventing Ourselves as Internet Librarians

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

  2. Information Landscape Change

  3. Search Engine Changes • MSN Search to Live.com • Exalead New Interface • Google Sub page results • Mid Page Results

  4. Commercial Databases • Interface Changes • Once a year? • Content Changes • Sometimes daily

  5. The Internet Librarian What are We?

  6. Reinventing Ourselves? • New Skills vs. Old Skills

  7. Web 2.0 Screencasts Blogs AJAX XML FRBR CMS XHTML Perl CSS HTML RSS MODS Wikis JavaScript PodCasts Library 2.0

  8. Controlled Vocabulary Reference Interview MARC MeSH Thesauri Concept Codes Info Literacy Classification UDC Verification Boolean Boolean Doc Types

  9. New(er) Technologies . . • Ipod, Video Ipod • Eye Piece for Web Browsing • Blackberry • Sony Ebook Reader

  10. Using all these? • Remove the physical library • Roving librarian • Becomes • A Gadget Covered Librarian?

  11. Or Vox? • from The Time Machine (2002) • Orlando Jones as Vox

  12. Librarians as • Sponge?

  13. What’s our future? • Use only blogs, wikis, IM, . . . ? • Focus only on new technology? • Forget our old skills?

  14. No & Yes

  15. Reinvention Does Not Need to • Ignore our strengths • Forget our skills • Or ignore tech failures

  16. Absorb and Share More • Maintain strengths from past • Build on them with • Future technology

  17. Collection • Print & Online • More to buy than ever before • Experiment with new offerings

  18. Organize • Increasingly complex • E-collections in catalog -or- separate database • OpenURL, CrossRef • Much still to solve

  19. Teaching/Instruction • One on one or Group • As we push our resources • Push instruction online • Screencasting

  20. Reference Service • Face to face continues • More tech questions • Virtual reference

  21. Potential & Pitfalls • Blog: • Quick Website • msusymposium • “Can’t find anything worthwhile”

  22. Potential & Pitfalls • RSS Reality • Alerts • News feeds • Engineering Village • RSS feeds and Blog button

  23. Wiki Wake-Up • Shared Editing • User Contributions • Conference Wikis • Empty Wikis? • Forums?

  24. Hype Meter • How self centered? • Blogs about blogging • Diggs about Digg • Wikis about wikis • Beware closed conversations

  25. Web 2.0 Reality • Embedding Content • YouTube, iRows • Shared Editing • ZohoPlanner, ZohoSheet

  26. Implementation Matters • Can we out-Google Google? • Sirsi Catalog • Include cover screen shots • Table of contents • Summaries

  27. Audience Matters • Can we out-Amazon Amazon? • WorldCat • User Contributed Reviews • Does WorldCat Audience Want?

  28. New Technologies • Worthwhile to try • Good Tech PR • Find the Winners • Test your Audience

  29. The Internet Librarian • Old skills and sources • Side by Side with the New • Continual Learning • Soak Up New Knowledge • Experiment, and Share

  30. Thank You

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