Library 2.0 11-16 Program Notes

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Contents 1 Library 2.0 11-16 Discussion Points 2 Blogs to Follow 3 2.0 in Unexpected Places 4 Library 2.0ish Ideas 5 Future Meetings

Library 2.0 11-16 Discussion Points

• Extensible Catalog Project - University of Rochester
• LibraryThing for libraries
• Solr derived Catalog Project
• Facebook Application Development
• LibX Browser Toolbar Builder
• Zotero - browser plugin
• Meebo and Meebo Me - Universal IM/Chat software
• Gerry McKeirnan's Social Networking Blog
• Facebook Applications for Libraries

Blogs to Follow

• Planet Code4lib

2.0 in Unexpected Places

• WNYC Website
• NPR Website
• History Blog for Town Library and Historical Society

Library 2.0ish Ideas

• Library Services as Widgets
  • Instead of website image library .. library of widgets that provide a service
  • Embedding your widgets where appropriate
  • Think your OpenURL resolver
• Embedding services within tools users like or need to use for research
  • Course Management Tools - Blackboard/Moodle
  • Social Networking Applications where appropriate
• Customizable and Combinable Applications
• User Control of interface behavior - Greasemonkey
• Content Chunks
• Social Websites at Libraries
  • Tagging of Resources
  • Comments on Resources
  • Interesting examples of this in library resources
  • Value Added Data - think the amazon.com database

Future Meetings

• Introduction to and demonstration of some of the Web Application Frameworks - Ruby On Rails, Django, etc.
• Open Source ILS
  • Koha
  • Evergreen
  • The Extensible Catalog
• Open Worldcat/Worldcat Local - Potential Benefits/Problems of this project
• Discussion of Open Source ILS software and implementations
• Blogs|Wikis|CMS - how these tools can increase productivity and content reuse
• Web Usability in the Web 2.0 World