Web 2.0 and Libraries

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Web 2.0 and Libraries

• Developing Proven and Effective
• Collaboration Strategies Using
• Community Server

Sarah Jones and Jack Rybak Calgary Public Library
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Outline

• New Website Redesign
• Why Community Server?
• Blogging at CPL
• Customizing Community Server
• Launch of the Blogs
• Alternate Uses for Community Server
• What comes next?

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New Website Redesign

• Why Redesign?
• Objectives
• Requirements

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Community Server

• Why Community Server ?
• How we used it

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Blogging at CPL
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Internal Reference Blogs
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Community Heritage and Family History Blog

• Why?
• How it Worked?
• Whats next?

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Launch of Blogging
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Customizing Community Server

• Book Covers

• Catalog links

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Community Server for Others

• Betty Crocker

• Eco-Metro

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Going Live

• Gardening

• Food

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Responsibilites

• Community Heritage and Family History

• Readers Nook

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Alternate Uses of Community Server
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Postcards from the Past

• Slideshow

• Comments

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Comments Signing In
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Comments Approving
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Future
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Questions?
calgarypubliclibrary.com Sarah Jones ?
sarah.jones_at_calgarypubliclibrary.com Jack Rybak ?
jack.rybak_at_calgarypubliclibrary.com