Books, Bytes Blogs and Wikis

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Books, BytesBlogs and Wikis
Wider Rationales for UWF Libraries New Technology
Strategies
Ray Uzwyshyn, Ph.D., MLISDept. of Digital and
Learning TechnologiesUWF Libraries, 2008-2009
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Library Blog Library Wiki
Library Weblog Books and BytesAvailable from
Homepage, Jan 2008Wordpress 2.26
PHP/MYSQLhttp//library.uwf.eduhttp//librarydig
italservices.uwf.edu/library
Library Task Force WikiInternal, Staff Groups,
July 2008Wikimedia PHP/MySQLhttp//librarydigi
talservices.uwf.edu/tf-wiki-1.12
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What are Blogs and Wikis?

• New Tools to Navigate, Share and Interact with
  Information - Develop knowledgebases

Easily Publishable Online Representations of News
or Domains of Knowledge
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Why do Weblogs and Wikis matter?

• Next generation web tools (evolutionary)
• Envision new, dynamic ways to deliver and
  interact with information
• Its where our users (students) are
• Collaboration possibilities have evolved on the
  Web
• Enable opportunities for learning, communication
  and knowledge development

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Advantages

• Instant publishing to the Internet
• cost little or nothing (open source)
• Provide features that open interaction with
  others
• Empowering
• allow new avenues for development of thoughts,
  ideas and materialization of ideas
• Exciting and Dangerous instant feedback
  regarding our services, announcements and events

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Wikis Blogs Characterized as

• Web 2.0 Information Technology Tools
  Participatory Media
• Citizens Media
• Disruptive Technologies

To Publish on the Web
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Why are UWF Libraries exploring Weblogs and Wikis?

• Keeps the library technologically/ culturally
  relevant
• Keep our digital information space and
  infrastructure up-to-date
• Meets the demographic of changing student/faculty
  needs

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The Millennials (born 1980-2000)

• Currently largest and most diverse
• student generation in American history
• 39 of total population 36 minority

Tech-embracing Generation N
Collaboration-oriented
Neil Howe and William Strauss, Millennial Rising,
Vintage, 2000
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Millennial Have Online Democratic Expectations

• Not trapped in TV paradigmNot interpellated
  in One Way Epistemic systems.
• Millennial expect Interaction with Information
  (Participatory Democracy)

Neil Howe and William Strauss, Millennial Rising,
Vintage, 2000
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Web 2.0 User experience

• Information Expectations are changing
• Change in the way users consume information/
  emphasis on interaction
• Subtle changes in technology lead to larger
  effects

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How can you bestfind relevantinformation?
Information Seeking Among 10,000 MillennialPew
Foundation Study, 2007

• 60 The Web In a virtual setting2) 15 Google3)
  12 Weblogs4) 8 Specialized Websites, Wikis
• 5) 2 From or in a group
• 6) 2 Cell, PDA, GPS (mobile to a destination)
• 7) 0.5 From a book/print source
• 0.3 In a classroom
• 0.15 From a teacher/professor
• 10) 0.15 At the library reference desk

95 Web
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Web 2.0 1998-2008Interactive Web Explosion of
Commenting
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Information Sharing, Frank public evaluation

• 75 of internet users 15-35 regularly rate
  persons, organizations, or organizational
  services online

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Review By Peers, 1998-2008
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Potential of Feedback

• (2 way communication with Users, Democratic
  Media, participatory epistemology, participatory
  democracy)

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What are our patrons/students/faculty thinking?
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Information Sharing and Evaluation

• 81 of 15-35 year olds regularly comment on
  weblogs
• 35 also post daily on blogs, wikis and social
  networking sites

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Content Creation by Age
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Accessing New Information Content

• 79 of internet users 18-35 subscribe at least
  1 blog

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Information Customization

• Two thirds of 15-35 year old internet users use
  RSS feeds

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http//librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/library
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Share Information
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Inform
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HyperLink to Deeper Web Resources
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Permalink and Archive

• Include Archives (Searchable)

http//librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/library/?p5
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Include unique URL for each post (Permalink)
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Save Useful Links
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Subscribe
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Characteristics of a Blog?
Frequently Updated Posts

• 1-2/week 5-6/month

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Relatively Pithy Entries

• Information Bytes Rather than Sound Bites

Death of Literacy - Birth of Digital/Visual/Inform
ation/Media Literacy
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Brief Focused Announcements / Articles

• 2-5 Paragraphs/Entry, Brief Focused with links
  and images

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Emphasis on Current Information
Newer Entries
Older Entries
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Weblog Organization

• ChronologicalBy Date

ThematicBy Category
Domains of Knowledge
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Sophistication/Scalability is Possible
http//librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/anniversary/

40th Anniversary Digital Image Archive as Reverse
Engineered Weblog
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Wikis
http//librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/tf-wiki-1.12

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Paradigmatic Shift of Knowledge Production
Dissemination
KnowledgeCollaboration Tools OpenEditableVersi
oningHistorical Progressionof
EncyclopediaEpistemicTrajectories
Shifting Models ofScholarly Production
http//www.wikipedia.org/
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Getting Started by Contributing
http//librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/tf-wiki-1.12

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Wikis as Workgroup Collaboration/ Learning Tool
Universe of Knowledge
SpecificDomains of Knowledge
Developing, Sharing, Collaborating on Documents
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Everything in A Wiki is Open Editable and
Reeditable
Simpler Nomenclature(little codingexperience
needed)Radically OpenArchitecture OrganicMorp
hology
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Versioning Histories
Universe of Knowledge
NewTaxonomies of Knowledge
Nuanced Knowledge Domains
Basic Definition
Authors, Revisions, Reasons, Versions
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Interactivity Media Specificity, Disruptive
Technology, Paradigm Shift

• New Tools Impact to Prevailing Models
  Teaching, Scholarly Infrastructures,
  Scholarly ProductionKnowledge Production

Uncharted Territory, Unexploited, Unexplored
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Questions?
Library Weblog Books and Byteshttp//library.uwf
.eduhttp//librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/library

Library Task Force Wikihttp//librarydigitalservi
ces.uwf.edu/tf-wiki-1.12
UWF 40th Anniversary Digital Image Library
Presentation
http//librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/anniversary/
Project Briefing D-Lib Sept/Oct 08
http//www.dlib.org
http//library.uwf.edu/weblogwikipresentation.ppt
Ray Uzwyshyn, Ph.D., MLISHead, Digital and
Learning TechnologiesUWF Libraries,
ruzwyshyn_at_uwf.edu [phone]