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Emerging Technologies & Libraries: What’s new & useful to libraries. Chanitra Bishop, Instruction & Emerging Technologies Librarian, Herman B Wells Library, IU-Bloomington Jian Liu, Head, HPER Library, IU-Bloomington . IU Librarians’ Day - 05/15/09. Organizational Tools. Read it Later.
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Emerging Technologies & Libraries:What’s new & useful to libraries Chanitra Bishop, Instruction & Emerging Technologies Librarian, Herman B Wells Library, IU-Bloomington Jian Liu, Head, HPER Library, IU-Bloomington IU Librarians’ Day - 05/15/09
Read it Later • Firefox extension that allows you to save pages of interest and read it later. • If you come across a website you want to read but don’t have time to read it, you can use read it later and it was save the web site. • Save amazon.com or other web pages with material you want to review later • Once you have read the site you can bookmark it if you would like to keep a permanent bookmark or you can deselect it. • No need to clutter your bookmarks with sites you only want to read once. Instead of emailing URLs to yourself.
Read it Later • Temporarily bookmark a web page • Keeps “bookmarks” from becoming cluttered • Works on a variety of browsers • Ability to easily permanently bookmark a page
Awesome Highlighter • Allows you to highlight text on web pages and add post-it notes • It provides a link for you to share the highlighted page • Allows you to show people the important part of a web page • Makes it easy for you to send a web page to a patron without the need to write a detailed email • Help you remember why you saved a web page
Awesome Highlighter Feature • No need to create an account, can go to web site - http://www.awesomehighlighter.com/ • Available as a Firefox extension & bookmarklets are also available for Internet Explorer • Creating an account allows you to: • See all your highlighted pages • See what you highlighted on individual pages • Go directly to highlighted pages Note: Post-it note feature does not work in Internet Explorer
I-lighter & Wiki-lights • I-lighter is similar to Awesome Highlighter • You have to sign up for an account, but no need to long in when extension installed • Works with social software tools • Twitter • Delicious • Wiki-lights is • part of I-lighter • forum that allows groups to collaborate, post & share information, ideas • Post directly into blog • Group members can upload documents, PDFs and PowerPoints • Can add messages to message board • Note: Saves home page of the web page instead of exact web pages
Awesome Highlighter or I-lighter Which one to use? • Choose Awesome Highlighter if: • You only need to highlight and email a web page • Don’t want to sign up for an account • Choose wiki-lights if: • You need collaboration features • You tweet or use delicious or maintain a blog
Dropbox • Allows you to sync your files across computers • If you work at several computers you can access your files from all of the computers • Provides a public folder that includes a “public link” • Public link can be used to add PDFs, Word files to a blog post • Send files to patrons and other librarians • Works on both Mac and PCs • Access you files online at http://www.getdropbox.com • Share files with everyone on your team
Drop.io • Share documents, images, videos, audio without creating an account • Allows you set a specify length of time person can view the files • Can set specific permissions and allow viewers to edit, comment, delete items • Others can add additional files, voicemail, email, links, email, notes to the drop • Can share via twitter, SMS, Facebook, RSS • Can message anyone currently viewing the drop
Dropbox or Drop.ioWhich one to use? • Use Dropbox if • You want to be able to access your files across multiple computers • You want to the ability to provide an online link to your files, share files with patrons and other librarians • Use Drop.io • You need more tools for collaborating on a team • Don’t want to set up an account
Feed Informer • Allows you to combine feeds from multiple sites into one feed • Feed is available in a variety of formats: • JavaScript, Flash, PHP, RSS feed • Can create a “Current News” feed that provides news from several sites news sites • CNN, MSNBC, NY Times (http://bl-libg-weblab.ads.iu.edu/wordpress/libugls ) • Can be used to create a journal RSS feed for faculty that can be posted on library’s web site • Feed can display popular journals within a discipline
PollDaddy • Insert a poll or your website/blog without creating an account • Send a poll to your Twitter followers without creating an account - http://twitter.polldaddy.com/ • Start a conversation via Twitter, Are you working on a research paper? • Close surveys after a certain date or quota has been reached, and create custom start and finish pages for your survey • Allows you to set paths for your respondents based on their responses
PostRank • Find top ranked blogs and other websites covering a variety of topics • Browse blogs/web sites to learn more about a subject area you are the liaison for and find interesting blogs • PostRank rankings are based on social engagement • Examples • writing a blog post in response to someone else • bookmarking an article • Commenting on a blog • clicking a link to read a news item • No need to create an account to browse top ranked blogs
PostRank • Create a top posts widgets (based on PostRank rankings) • Submit your blog’s RSS feed, a top posts list will be created • You can choose the time period that you want the top posts to be created from • Year, month, week, day • the number of top posts you would like to show • Allows you to highlight older articles • Highlight articles readers found most useful
Poll Everywhere • Allows you to poll your audience and get instant feedback • Audience answers via SMS text message or the web • Can be used to make library instruction session more interactive • Students can respond via text messages to questions and view the results • Evaluate the instruction session • Ask questions to find out what students learned/understand
Compfight • Allows you to limit search to Flickr tags or text • Also allows you to search for creative commons pictures
FlickrStorm • Advanced search allows you to search creative commons photos • Can search for a specific type of creative commons license • Suggest additional search terms to find more pictures • Saves your current search history • use the tray to add photos and link to them • Can’t limit search to “text” or “tags”
Tag Galaxy • Great for visual learners • Represents Flickr tags as the solar system • The keyword you use is the sun • related keywords are planets • Click on a planet to see pictures
Resources • Computers in Libraries Conference 2009 • http://mashable.com/2009/05/02/flickr-search-tools/ • Some web sites to learn about new technologies • Mashable – Social Media Guide • Tech Crunch • Idea Shower • ALA TechSource Blog