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So, Gerry… are you suggesting that the internet is consuming us?
Maybe HTML and XML are recycled RNA/DNA?

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[mailto:web4lib-bounces-Lfqs8nn97uZKgiwHgTXaBw< at >public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Gerry Mckiernan
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To: Casey Bisson
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Subject: Re: [Web4lib] The end of MySpace, SecondLife, and Twitter

Casey/

More Importantly …

Social Networking Is People!

[
http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/2007/06/social-networking-is-pe
ople.html ]

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 5011

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Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows

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Oh the irony: I just posted about the necessary traits for web
applications that seem to be emerging. I’m biased, but (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Sigue leyendo →

Ditto on David. It’s just the nature of technology that things come and
go. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t embrace them — when our users have
done so.

If it’s good enough for them, it ought to be good enough for us.
They’re worth chasing after.

LEO (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Sigue leyendo →

Robin/

One could look at it that way …

List: Any Parallels …

/Gerry

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So, Gerry… are you suggesting that the internet is consuming us?
Maybe HTML and XML are recycled RNA/DNA?

—–Original Message—–
From: web4lib-bounces-Lfqs8nn97uZKgiwHgTXaBw< at >public.gmane.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces-Lfqs8nn97uZKgiwHgTXaBw< at >public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Gerry Mckiernan
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 2:14 PM
To: Casey Bisson
Cc: web4lib-Lfqs8nn97uZKgiwHgTXaBw< at >public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] The end of MySpace, SecondLife, and Twitter

Casey/

More Importantly …

Social Networking Is People!

[
http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/2007/06/social-networking-is-pe
ople.html ]

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 5011

[ http://www.facebook.com/p/Gerry_McKiernan/16926735 ]

Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows

[ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]

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Oh the irony: I just posted (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Sigue leyendo →

Leo/

Yep …

Hope All Is Well!

/Gerry

David Rothman wrote:

Ditto on David. It’s just the nature of technology that things come and
go. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t embrace them — when our users have
done so.

If it’s good enough for them, it ought to be good enough for us.
They’re worth chasing after.

LEO (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Sigue leyendo →

I made my second-ever podcast last week when Jo Kay asked me to take part in a showcase within Second Life, featuring what Australasian education projects in Second Life. I knew I’d be on holidays on 20 June 4pm – 5:30pm W.A. time, so my presentation will be streamed into SL to a screen on Wasp, where the showcase will be held. (SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Wasp/41/74/82/)
In it, I outline why Murdoch University Library has a plot of land in Second Life and how we are using it to help our community understand more about education in a Multi-User Virtual Environment.
You can find out more information about the event at Jo and Sean’s wiki, In-World Presentation: Showcasing Australasian Educational Projects in Second Life . I’m sorry to be missing it, because it looks like a very interesting lineup. Here’s a rough timetable as at 15 June 2007
* Sean FitzGerald (Sean McDunnough) – Introduction & Overview – 6.00pm – 6.10pm
* Jo Kay (jokay Wollongong) – Sean & Jo’s Projects – 6.10pm – 6.20pm
* Malcolm Jolly (GippsTAFE Gonzales) & Glenda McPherson (Glenda Arrow) – The GippsTAFE Project – 6.20pm – 6.30pm
* Kathryn Greenhill (Emerald Dumont) – Murdoch University Library Discovers a Second Life (video) – 6.30pm – 6.40pm
* Aaron Griffiths (Isa Goodman) – SL Educational Projects in NZ – 6.40pm – 6.50pm
* Gary Hayes (Gary Hazlitt) – AFTRS & LAMP (video) – 6.50pm – 7.00pm
* Lindy McKeown (Decka Mah) – Terra Incognita – 7.00pm – 7.10pm
* Alan Levine (CDB Barkley) – New Medium Consortium and Aussie Trip – 7.10pm – 7.20pm
* Jo Kay (jokay Wollongong) – Wrap-up – 7.20pm – 7.30pm
Here’s a slightly longer version that I uploaded to YouTube: Murdoch University Library gets a Second Life:

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Richard Urban blogs at Inherent Vice on his collaborative poster session, “Second Life, Museums, and Archaeological Modeling” for the Digital Humanities Conference.
The researchers have…

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Building a Social Library

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Hi. I’m Steve Campion, System Trainer for Pierce County Library.

It’s honor to be asked by Michael to write a guest posting in his blog because hearing him speak last October motivated me to kick-start an entire social web cirriculum and a flurry of activity here. Susan McBride and I started teaching a popular four hour social web literacy class to staff within two months of Michael’s talk. With the social networking buzz going around, our library system created several public blogs, podcasts, a MySpace page, a very active Flickr page, and a wiki.

Not everyone is excited about the possibilities, however. As with any organization, there are early adopters as well as skeptics. First the adopters.

Susan and I teach three social web classes each month. Every ten-student class has filled within two days of the announcement, proving that the enthusiasm is there. Word has gotten out that the course is a lot to absorb yet fun. We have seen the faces of many students light up once they understand social websites like Flickr and Dogster. We have dozens of LibraryThingers swapping account names. One staff member was a novice blogger but used one to full potential when she and her husband traveled to China soon after the class. My favorite compliment came from a woman who passionately dislikes computers: “I was surprised that I didn’t HATE the class.” LOL. We haven’t come close to doing everything I’d like to do with social networking but staff know the terms now and we’re talking about new tools and creative interactive possibilities.

We have also heard from people who “don’t get into stuff like that.” Some staff take the class voluntarily (it will be required this fall, but has been optional so far) only to walk away unconvinced. One woman told me that we have a website for talking to the patrons, but patrons have no interest in talking to us. … Sigue leyendo →

You might have already listened to the SirsiDynix Institute presentation last month regarding: Teen Second Life: Library Services in a 3D World. If not, presentation slides and podcast are archived here for your convenience.

Kelly Czarnecki (BlueWings Hayek) from Eye4You Alliance sent me this note asking for more volunteers and libraries to participate with them.

“If you are a librarian or educator of teens, consider a space on Eye4You Alliance, the name of the Island in Teen Second Life working to connect with teens with library services. What are some of the things you might want to do in this space and why? Think of some of the activities you already do in your ‘real life’ library. Author visits, book discussions, game play, summer reading, writing groups, and more. By having a presence in Teen Second Life, not only can teens across the globe know about your library, but they might even start to think of library services in a different way. Invite an author to work with teens to create scenes from their book, roleplay scenes, explore identity formation through avatars, create games (actual game boards or DDR renditions) digitally. There is no charge to use the space on Eye4You or to set up an account. These are the minimum system requirements recommended by Linden Lab: http://secondlife.com/corporate/sysreqs.php

A lot of questions came up from listeners and the moderator divided these into two basic sets:
1) How do we know that teens are really teens and not adults, and
2) How do you feel you’re directing them back to the real space.

Virtual environments are all about forming communities. Liaisons from Linden Lab are available 24/7 for teens to access them if they need to. Meaning, if teens have a concern about an avatar, a question or a problem trying to figure out how to do something, Linden Lab is always there to help and ban someone from the world if need be. … Sigue leyendo →

Libraries and Librarians in Social Spaces: A Tour of Initiatives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignLisa Janicke Hinchliffe | Head, Undergraduate Library | University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignKaren Schmidt | Acting University Librarian | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Coalition for Networked Information Fall 2006 Task Force Meeting Project Briefing[http://www.cni.org/tfms/2006b.fall/index.html]The ubiquity of online networked social spaces presents librarians with an opportunity to become members of user communities and thereby integrate library resources and services at point-of-need and for point-of-discovery in ways previous models of librarian outreach could not obtain. Participating in networked social spaces such as MySpace is particularly valuable for connecting with undergraduate students for whom the library is unfortunately often an alien and mystifying entity. This project briefing will offer an introduction to a variety of projects underway at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to explore the possibilities of social spaces for libraries. Specific examples include:* MySpace and Facebook sites* Facebook fliers for advertising the Library* I-Go: The Library Toolbar* IM buddy names on all major networks* SecondLife exploration* Librarian Office Hours* Integration in campus courseware communitiesOnline social spaces are complemented by new attention to social and collaboration spaces in the Library’s physical facilities, particularly in the Undergraduate Library. Examples of enhancements to physical spaces include:* Re-configuration of computer workstation distribution to facilitate group use of computers* Laptop, DVD player, MP3 player, and hard drive check out* iMac computers for multimedia production and development* Furniture layout that encourages student reconfiguration for different group sizesInformation about successful and not-so-successful projects will be shared.Handout[http://tinyurl. … Sigue leyendo →

Another library system has entered the Google Library project, the CIC libraries. Here’s a news release that a friend sent me, and here’s the Google announcement. Lorcan Dempsey also provides coverage. I find this interesting for a number of reasons: 1) a library near me will be one of the libraries in Google, and 2) the Authors Guild just sued the Google Print project, even though publisher after publisher has admitted that Google Books IMPROVES sales. Sigh.
My library system is apparently investigating SecondLife. This amuses me to no end, since we have no programming staff who could devote their time to do this, and since many, many library staff still aren’t comfortable with some of the other social software staples like blogs, wikis, and RSS. My supervisor ran across something about the Learning 2.0 program and suggested I look into it for the library staff, and though I’d been thinking about it on my own for months, I just don’t think it will be possible to get the institutional support to really do it right. Maybe I am just a cynic. In any case, I am already planning to do a bunch of classes on RSS.
Sometimes I really wonder how on earth I could ever have the time to do what I want to do, much less what I need to do. For instance, my Google and Google Scholar classes are the most recently developed classes for the libraries. I would like to do more, especially as regards RSS and other social software technologies, but I also have to get all those other pesky things like reference and collection development and library management done. I don’t know how solo librarians do it. My hats off to them, starting with David.
My second year (soon to be third year) students were back today after departing to places hither and yon for the USMLE Step 1. It was great having the library noisy and energetic again! They now have started down the path where they get separated. … Sigue leyendo →