Below are some links to related resources that we stumbled across while assembling our posts for the blog.
ALA – Online Resources for Social Networking – links ahoy!
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/ifissues/onlinesocialnetworks.htm
ALA – Library and Information Technology Association - LITA
http://www.ala.org/ala/lita/litahome.cfm
ALA’s Wiki on Interactive Web Applications
http://wikis.ala.org/iwa/index.php/Main_Page
Five Weeks to a Social Library – This is a website for a 2006 online class designed to familiarize librarians with the tools of social networking. All of the content is still on the website and can be accessed by anyone interested in walking themselves through the course
http://www.sociallibraries.com/course/
Direct Link to the Course Contents
http://www.sociallibraries.com/course/prelimprogram
Friends: Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services
http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/
Medical Library Association - Task Force On Social Networking
http://sns.mlanet.org/blog/
Information Wants to Be Free: A Librarian, Writer, and Tech Geek Reflecting on the Profession and the Tools We Use To Serve Our Patrons - blog of Meredith Farkas, author of several of the articles cited by our group in our postings
http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php
Web Junction – An online community for library staff
http://www.webjunction.org/do/Home
Website for the book The Next Gen Librarian’s Survival Guide by Rachel Singer Gordon
http://www.lisjobs.com/nextgen/index.htm
NextGen Librarian Google Group Listserv
http://community.livejournal.com/libraries
All websites have been bookmarked at del.icio.us using the tag "2008hunt6010" that Andrew kindly set for the class.
If you know of any other useful, relevant links, please post them in the comments section!
And finally, because we can all use a laugh, check out Over the Hedge's comic from Sunday March 2nd: Wheel 2.0.
6 comments:
A viewpoint...
"Trends in the Living Network "created by Ross Dawson, a business consultant, expert on the future of business and technology with "Extinction Timeline: what will disappear from our lives before 2050", predicts that Libraries will disappear by 2019.
” When people talk about the future, they usually point to all the new things that will come to pass. However the evolution of human society is as much about old things disappearing as new things appearing. This means it is particularly useful to consider everything in our lives that is likely to become extinct.”
Source:
http://www.rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2007/10/extinction_time.html Retrieved on March 6, 2008.
Diana: Libraries might be extinct? What? Okay, now I have to read more. I had a little trouble with the link you gave, but found it without a problem by going to the main page http://www.rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/
Holly: I'm currently taking LIS 6080 taught by Evette Atkins (yes, the article left out that she's an instructor for WSU!). She's a big proponent of Second Life, offering us extra credit for attending Second Life events.
I couldn't reach the article through the link you posted and I'm not sure why, but I searched the Freep site and found it here: http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008803040391
Of course, as you say it's only good for a few days.
Spending time online in a virtual world sounds so reasonable the way they describe it in that article!
I listen to a lot of NPR at work, and there is an announcer (Ira Flatow?) who regularly recommends listeners meet up in second life to discuss whatever issue he is talking about. I find it really interesting in that radio is generally a one way street, information wise, but this means they can supplement each other.
Xanthe- I can see how you might think online meetings would be a little weird... but generally they're not meant to replace any regular face-to-face meeting. The example you gave was awesome, people who can't normally get together meet at the same time online. There's no hour long car rides, and it's pretty convenient for everybody.
As a person who regularly plays online games, I have to say that I've come to enjoy interaction in these scenarios. Many of the people I was good friends with in undergrad play with me, so it gives us a way to interact and have fun at the same time. We even use a program to talk to each other - like an audio chat room - while we play, so it's really more of an enhanced talking on the phone.
Allison: I think I might have come off as a little too dismissive of virtual programs and networking. I just don't have a lot of experience with them, so it's hard for me to understand and anticipate the benefits. That's great that you stay in touch with friends through online gaming. You have a leg up on the rest of us who are still stumbling around trying to figure out what exactly this "online" thing means!
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