Library 2.0 & Reader's Advisory

Jessamyn West
librarian.net/talks/albany

Outline

1. Library 2.0 Overview & Examples (11:15 - 1:00)
2. LUNCH (1:00 - 1:45)
3. Look at Specific 2.0 RA tools (1:45 - 2:45)
4. Lab Time (3-4)
5. Lab Time (4-5)

Handouts & Files

• Slides - PDF (14MB), Keynote format (8MB), PowerPoint format (33MB)
• Other handouts from social talks - Word document, one big HTML page

Links

• Reading pic
• Ask MetaFilter
• Tunbridge Public Library
• Web 2.0 list from O'Reilly
• Social network image
• Vimeo login screen
• Pew Internet Home Broadband report
• Question Board
• LibraryThing review
• Library of Congress Flickr photo
• Franklin Park historical map page & Library Journal article
• Library Thing
• Kindle: Library Journal article, loaning to patrons?
• iPhone as ebook reader & iPhone ebook app
• Overdrive: ListenUp Vermont, "compatible devices" page
• Content by Cory Doctorow
• Facebook apps: Visual Bookshelf, WorldCat, Goodreads
• Twitter: TwitterLit, ALA_RUSA, Albany Times-Union Arts
• Flickr: My books, inspired books, book displays, shelves
• Overbooked, Overbookers
• Blog as RA site (details)
• Firefox: Add search engines, Book Burro, LibX, Greasemonkey, userscripts (library tag)
• Out there examples: literature-map, Aqua browser

Closer Look Sites

• LibraryThing (mine)
• Goodreads (mine)
• SOPAC: see it in action, developers' site