The Changing Library Atmosphere:

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The Changing Library Atmosphere
Wikis, Podcasts, and Libraries 2.0
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School Libraries 2.0

• The digitally re-shifted school library must
  transcend the physical space to bring services
  and programming to every student and teacher
  throughout the school wherever learning is taking
  place.
• Chris Harris, School Library 2.0 Say Goodbye to
  Your Mothers Library, School Library Journal,
  5/1/2006.

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What It Means

• Keeping those students we have, while actively
  seeking others. 
• Embracing those ideas and technologies that can
  assist libraries in delivering these services.
• Participation -- involving students, teachers,
  and others in the creation and use of programs.
• This does not mean that we abandon our current
  users or our mission.  It is a philosophy of
  rapid change and flexibility.
• Puts the school library in a much stronger
  position, ready to efficiently and effectively
  meet the needs of a larger student population at
  the point of need.

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Where to Begin?

• Re-think what school libraries can do
• Step beyond time and space
• Be available 24/7
• Be accessible online (email, Instant Messaging
  IM)
• Plan for integrated systems that promote use of
  all resources (federated searching across
  platforms)
• Utilize Open Source software to provide for
  sharing and collaboration efforts

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Where to Begin?

• Teach others about NEW technology applications
  and their use in education
• Social Networking sites provide opportunities for
  collaboration between young adults, teachers, and
  librarians (My Space)
• iPods and MP3 players provide for audio / video
  access to library information, educational
  podcasts, and instruction

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Where to Begin?

• Allow students and teachers to become active
  participants in the library program through
  blogs, wikis, and podcasts
• Building their own book lists through the online
  catalog, accessing accounts, requesting materials
• Responding to and creating library blogs
• Creating and working with wikis that relate to
  specific activities
• Allow online activities to become interactive
  with responses from students, teachers, parents,
  other stakeholders through RSS feeds that alert
  to new information

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Web 2.0 Technologies

• Provide users with opportunity to access
  resources beyond the library walls
• Allows users to actively participate rather than
  passively listen / watch
• Prepares students for the real-life
  environments that they face in higher education
  and in the work force
• Requires teachers, librarians, and other leaders
  to think outside the box

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What Should Librarians Do?

• Learn, embrace, and become the experts of 2.0
  technologydont allow others to take these
  information sources from the hands of experts
  (that would beUS!)
• Teach others how to utilize 2.0 technology by
  showcasing the Librarys use of it!

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Trends for a 2.0 Library

• Social bookmarking and tagging
• Wikis
• Blogs and RSS aggregators
• Web education
• YouTube
• Instant Messaging
• MySpace
• Text messaging

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2.0 Technologies To Grab NOW

• Library Thing allows anyone to catalog their
  book collections and share / locate similar
  materials without a librarian!!
• Flickr to share book reviews and book covers
  that are linked to the librarys website!
• RockYou allows photos to be used for an online
  slide show to attach to a wiki
• YouTube provides instant access to educational
  videos, as well as the unique (Drill Cart Teams
  are even there!)

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Librarians can add book covers to Flickr and link
from the librarys website
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Blogging

• Whats your purpose?
• The LibrarY or the LibrarIAN Blog?

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LibrarY or LibrarIAN Blogs

• LibrarY blogs (with Y)
• provide students, teachers, and parents with
  daily information, assignments, research, etc.
• Provide information about
• the library program and activities
• upcoming events
• School Libraries with blogs

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LibrarY or LibrarIAN Blogs

• LibrarIAN (with IAN) are used to
• Provide information about the library profession
  to new librarians
• Provide resources for other librarians
• Provide insights into the profession for others
  who might be interested
• Professional insights
• Personal insights

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What are the pitfalls for a school librarian
writing a blog?

• Many school librarians cant even access (much
  less read) blogs at work, because anything with
  the word blog has been blocked by their
  districts filters, so writing a school-based
  blog may require dealing with all kinds of
  technological hassles. 
• School bloggers need to understand that community
  members may be reading their blog, and thus be
  circumspect about what they post. -Alice Yucht,
  Alice in InfoLand

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A radical approach to blogging
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Joyce Valenzas Blog
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Tagged for searching
RSS Feed
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Doug Johnsons Blue Skunk Blog
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Vicki Krebsbachs Blog MuchoBig --San Antonio,
TX
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Which Blog To Use?

• Blogspot
• Xanga
• Edublog
• Blogger
• WordPress
• LiveJournal
• Moveable Type

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Provides a great way to locate specific blogs
on specific topics
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Podcasts

• Provide students with the opportunity to showcase
  their talents in everything from writing and
  speaking to digital storytelling.
• Motivates students to be creative and utilize
  technology in new ways.
• Provides immediate feedback of the work, and
  allows others to see inside the classroom for a
  brief moment.

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Podcasts provide students with the opportunity to
share their insights to literature.
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Wikis

• Wiki - wiki (in Hawaiian) means rapidly or
  really fast.
• Provide a collaborative environment to exchange
  ideas, information, and resources between
  individuals regardless of distance or time.
• Provide users to correct content or add content
  for more meaning.

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Our Favorite Wiki
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A new approach to Wikipedia?
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A Study Skills Wiki

• Freshman Study skills project that required
  students to create a wiki that details
  information about our school's library.
• approximately 70 pages were created
• 93 students worked on the project together
• students have been working on it throughout the
  day and evening hours (as noted by the wiki's
  date and time stamps)
• most students answered questions correctly by
  investigating the library program
• some students are overachievers....check out this
  page from a student who wanted to "sell the
  database"...(his words) http//moncrieflibrary.pbw
  iki.com/EBSCO's20MasterFILE20Premier

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Vicki Krebsbach, LibrarianWilderness Oak
Elementary SchoolSan Antonio, TX
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Joyce Valenzas Wiki that provides librarians the
opportunity to share insights and information.
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District Librarians share their resources.
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What Wiki To Use?

• Wikis to consider using
• PB Wiki
• Wikispaces
• Wiki Matrix allows you to select the wiki that
  will meet your needs

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RSS Feeds

• Allows any new information published to a website
  to be collected and sent to you.
• The RSS feed will only alert you if there is new
  information this helps you avoid overload.
• RSS feeds can be accessed through an RSS
  reader--which means you only have to go to a
  single site for all of your updates!

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Which RSS Feed Reader?

• Performing a search for "RSS Feed Readers" in
  Google or Yahoo! will produce a slew of software
  options many of which are free or at little
  cost.
• Subscribing to an RSS feed is as simple as
  looking for the appropriate XML code. Most
  websites that publish an RSS feed will display a
  tiny orange box or button labeled "RSS" or
  "XML."
• Click the button and your web browser typically
  goes to a page of cryptic code. Just copy the Web
  "address" or URL of that page and plug it into
  your feed reader. The software will then
  automatically retrieve and display that site's
  latest information.

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Our Mission in a 2.0 Library

• To prepare our students to become Information
  Literate
• To prepare students for higher education, the
  work force, but most importantly, life
• To make the library an integrated part of the
  curriculum, the classroom and the community
• To remain effective and relevant within the world
  of information

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Librarians With Blogs

• Alice Yucht Alice in Infoland http//www.aliceinf
  o.org/blog/
• Rob Darrow California Dreamin'
  http//robdarrow.wordpress.com/
• Diane Chen Deep Thinking http//deepthinking.blog
  some.com/
• Sara Kelly Johns (AASL president-elect) From the
  Inside Out http//fromtheinsideout.squarespace.com
  /blog/
• Frances Harris Gargoyles Loose in the Library
  http//www.uni.uiuc.edu/library/blog/index.html
• Chris Harris Infomancy http//schoolof.info/infoma
  ncy/
• Mary J Johnson The Primary Source Librarian
  http//maryjjohnson.com/primarysourcelibrarian/
• Joyce Valenza's TheNeverendingSearch
  http//joycevalenza.edublogs.org/
• Jacquie Henry's Wanderings http//nlcommunities.co
  m/communities/wanderings/default.aspx

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Trends to Read About

• The Spring 2007 issue of Texas Library Journal---
  Top Texas Technology Trends for Libraries by
  Richard Wayne, p.22.

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Resources to Review

• Online Powered School Libraries Web 2.0
  Technologies are Transforming School Libraries,
  by Will Richardson. District Administration,
  January 2007.
• School Library Journal Summit held in Chicago,
  November 2006. Available online through PB Wiki.
• The Digitally Reshifted School Library by Michael
  Stevens. ALA TechSource, Feb. 6, 2006.
• Positive Uses for Social Networking compiled by
  YALSA. American Library Association, 2007.
• Tools for the TEKS Integrating Technology in the
  Classroom. Classroom Podcasting by Wesley A.
  Fryer.
• Podcasting Success A Best Practices Wiki.

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Beginners Guide to 2.0

• Infomancy Christopher Harriss blog, where the
  school library professional discusses technology
  issues as they relate to libraries and
  more.schoolof.info/infomancy 
• Library 2.0 A collection of related Web
  links.ma.gnolia.com/groups/library2
• Library 2.0 and Library 2.0 A balanced look at
  Library 2.0 from Walt Crawford, Senior Analyst
  for Research Libraries Group, Inc.cites.boisestat
  e.edu/civ6i2.pdf

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• Library 2.0/Web 2.0 A wealth of 2.0 blog entries
  by Michael Stevens, former special projects
  librarian at the St. Joseph County (IN) Public
  Library.tametheweb.com/library_20web_20/ 
• School Library Blogs Also by Chris Harris, an
  aggregated page of top school library
  blogs.libraryblogs.suprglu.com
• Tags/library20 Library 2.0 in pictures.www.flick
  r.com/photos/tags/library20/ 

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• TechCrunch A blog that reviews emerging Web 2.0
  tools.techcrunch.com
• What Is Web 2.0 The article that started it all,
  by Tim OReilly, the publisher and Internet guru
  who coined the term.www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/orei
  lly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

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Link to the Resources

• All resources and links in this portion of the
  presentation (including the PowerPoint) can be
  downloaded from
• http//digitalbookends.pbwiki.com

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