Library 2.0 & Reader's Advisory

Jessamyn West
< librarian.net/talks/pla10 >

Slide Deck & Credits

• Slides - PDF, Keynote format
• Background image from Vimages on Flickr "Reading is like a party"

About Me Links

• Reading pic
• Ask MetaFilter
• Tunbridge Public Library

2.0 Info

• Web 2.0 list from O'Reilly
• Social network image
• Vimeo login screen
• FCC Broadband report
• Question Board
• LibraryThing review
• Library of Congress Flickr photo
• Franklin Park historical map page & Library Journal article on Google Maps

Ebooks

• Library Thing
• Kindle: Library Journal article, OSU loaning to students
• iPhone as ebook reader & iPhone ebook app
• Internet Archive Bird Book.
• Overdrive: ListenUp Vermont, "compatible devices" page
• "Future of reading" in snippet view

Copyright and other issues

• Content by Cory Doctorow
• Ebook buyer's guide to privacy by EFF

Social Tools

• Facebook apps: WorldCat, Reading, Goodreads
• Twitter: TwitterLit, ALA Twitter feeds (Jenny's notes from 2009), Albany Times-Union Arts
• Flickr: My books, inspired books, book displays, shelves
• Overbooked, Overbookers
• Blog as RA site
• Ann Arbor Book Blog
• Seattle Public's Shelftalk
• Merrick Library (NY) RA blog

Firefox

• Add search engines
• Book Burro
• LibX
• Greasemonkey
• userscripts (library tag)

Out there examples

• literature-map
• Aqua browser

Find More Things That Work

• Blogging Libraries Wiki
• Library Success Wiki