TCLC Technology Workshop
TCLC Technology Workshop:
Social Software and Libraries.
Held on December 12, 2006
I just wanted to share a few highlights from the TCLC Technology Workshop: Social Software and Libraries, held on December 12, 2006 at West Chester University.
For those who couldn’t make it, or who are not familiar with social software, let me explain. Social Software (SS) supports group collaboration or interaction by use of the Internet.
Some examples of SS include instant messaging, RSS, blogs, wikis, folksonomies(tagging), photo sharing, social bookmarking, podcasting, mashups and more.
The workshop focused on SS technologies and their applications in libraries.
See below PowerPoint slides.
http://www.tcnj.edu/~corrado/scholarly/palinet2006corrado-robertson.pdf
What impressed me the most was Social Libraries and in-browser Instant Messaging.
An example of social libraries is LibraryThing.
LibraryThing is an online service for storing and sharing personal library catalogs. Since it’s web-based you can access your catalog from computer. Users can catalog personal collections, keep reading lists , write reviews and make blog widgets.
LibraryThing is an easy way for libraries to display list of “New Books” on their Web site.
Meebo is an example of in-browser instant messaging program.
Launched in September 2005, Meebo is a website instant messaging program, which supports multiple IM services, including Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, AIM, ICQ, and Google Talk. Meebo requires no downloads or installs and, its free. Since you can access all your buddies on any computer its prefect for library services such as “Ask-the-Librarian”.
Social Software and Libraries.
Held on December 12, 2006
I just wanted to share a few highlights from the TCLC Technology Workshop: Social Software and Libraries, held on December 12, 2006 at West Chester University.
For those who couldn’t make it, or who are not familiar with social software, let me explain. Social Software (SS) supports group collaboration or interaction by use of the Internet.
Some examples of SS include instant messaging, RSS, blogs, wikis, folksonomies(tagging), photo sharing, social bookmarking, podcasting, mashups and more.
The workshop focused on SS technologies and their applications in libraries.
See below PowerPoint slides.
http://www.tcnj.edu/~corrado/scholarly/palinet2006corrado-robertson.pdf
What impressed me the most was Social Libraries and in-browser Instant Messaging.
An example of social libraries is LibraryThing.
LibraryThing is an online service for storing and sharing personal library catalogs. Since it’s web-based you can access your catalog from computer. Users can catalog personal collections, keep reading lists , write reviews and make blog widgets.
LibraryThing is an easy way for libraries to display list of “New Books” on their Web site.
Meebo is an example of in-browser instant messaging program.
Launched in September 2005, Meebo is a website instant messaging program, which supports multiple IM services, including Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, AIM, ICQ, and Google Talk. Meebo requires no downloads or installs and, its free. Since you can access all your buddies on any computer its prefect for library services such as “Ask-the-Librarian”.
