Virtual Cultures: a day in the life of CI Librarians

Virtual Cultures

Managing our world of information…. a day in

the life of CI librarians

today we’ll look at:

• delicious - social bookmarking (what CI librarians have done with it)

• using Wikis to manage information, projects etc (Art Librarians Society conference planning)

• twitter, drupal etc - social networking (Art Librarians Society website)

• databases - alerting services, RSS feeds, google news etc • ePrints/google scholar/open source repositories - how to

find good quality info on the web• other tips for managing info – email filing

systems/filtering• endNote, zotero etc to manage bibliographies • images/video repositories - how to search (eg. Flicker and

Picture Australia)

del.icio.us in the library…

two approaches for presenting

subject resources:

the old

the new

Info sharing with other experts

Integrated info sharing

and networking:

Delicious tags,

Facebook and professional

groups integrated:

The personal and

professional co-habiting

Professional and social networking

• Interactive Drupal-based website for professional networking– web 1.0 to web 2.0 (ARLIS site)– Member portals: bios, photos, blogging,

forums– Collaborative authoring of site content

and documenting corporate memory– Communication, personalising,

networking, sharing expertise, encouraging dialogue

From this….

To this…

And if you just absolutely have to network to the most detailed

degree…..

TWITTER

http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter

Wikis

Wetpaint.com :

A wiki space for collaboratively planning a conference:

Info creation, documentation & sharing, decision making, planning management…

journal alerts/rss feeds

• Ejournal • Ebsco• Google news, ABC newsfeeds

adding an RSS feed

to a reader

journal alerts/rss feeds

journal alerts/rss feeds

journal alerts/rss feeds

journal alerts/rss feeds

email alerts – publisher info

publisher services

email alerts – publisher info

We set up profiles to match our subject

needs in the creative industries

And yes, we usually buy new library materials from online sources too – even eBay!

email alerts

current awareness :

TV

more email alerts…

current awareness :

internet resources

email alerts - news

subscriber email lists

managing schedules online

managing email

better quality info? google scholar

better quality info? ePrints

search across

ePrint and other digital repositories

Collaborative image sharing

• Cultural institutions are harvesting social image tools such as Flickr, to enrich their own online image collections and make them publically available through a common portal.

– Eg: Picture Australia

managing bibliographies- endNote/zotero

• these products allow you to:– keep track of all of your information resources

(save data from library catalogues, journal databases, the web etc)

– make notes about them– create bibliographies in many referencing styles– share your resources with other people

• zotero.org – free software - take the tour! http://www.zotero.org/videos/tour/zotero_tour.htm

• Endnote – free at QUT while you’re here http://www.library.qut.edu.au/services/endnote/

managing bibliographies- endNote/zotero

make your own notes etc!