Web2.0 Services and the Management of Academic Libraries

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Web2.0 Services and the Management of Academic
Libraries

• Dr. Christian Hänger
• Christine Krätzsch

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• Outline
• About us University of Mannheim
• Learning from Web 2.0
• Reviews in the online catalog
• Blog for library news
• Collaborative Tagging
• Conclusion

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• Challenges for Academic Libraries
• The changing expectations of future students
• Financial pressure
• Libraries as communities

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• What do we want to do?
• ? Improve the library's (online) marketing
• ? Learning from Web 2.0

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comments
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tags
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Review
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rate
comment
login
save
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Review
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Outcomes
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User participation
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New E-books for economics
recent posts
recent comments
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• Objectives of the blog
• Communication between library and customer
• Rapid response to the needs of the customers
• Evaluation of services

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• User acceptance
• Dialog between users and library
• Average of 6 comments per post
• Blog can be used for library management

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• Initial position
• Growing amount of electronic documents available
• No subject indexing
• Financial pressure

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Tagcloud
Last posted bookmarks
Last posted BibTeX entries
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• Automated document indexing
• Concept-based indexing by Collexis search engine
• Project Automated indexing and semantic search
  applications for economic journal articles (2007
  -2009)

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• Automated document indexing
• Concept-based indexing by Collexis search engine
• Project Automated indexing and semantic search
  applications for economic journal articles (2007
  -2009)

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• Collaborative tagging of electronic documents
• Collaborative tagging users add metadata in the
  form of keywords to shared documents
• Combination of automated indexing and tagging

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• Intentions of the project
• Tagging as a new service for the customers of
  academic libraries
• Reference for document annotation automated or
  tagging

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Geographic terms
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Geographic terms
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• Conclusion
• Community building as a new role for academic
  libraries
• Using the collaborative intelligence of our
  customers

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• Thank you for your attention!
• Contact
• haenger_at_mail.uni-mannheim.de
• kraetzsch_at_mail.uni-mannheim.de