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OCLC Online Computer Library Center
Getting to the On Ramp
A presentation for the OLC Technical Services Retreat
by
George NeedhamVice President, Member Services
April 26, 2006
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A relevant quote…
“If you’re in control,
you aren’t going fast enough!”
Mario Andretti
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Today’s agenda
Definitions and examples
Three ways to discover new treasures
Two easy ways to get information delivered to your desktop (and a few others)
My personal favorite sources and tools
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Credits
Stephen Bell’s Keeping Up Website http://staff.philau.edu/bells/keepup
Rush Brandis, “Blog the Web with RSS: Is it Really Simple Syndication?” http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=9098
Genevieve Foskett (post to “It’s All Good,” Thursday, April 20, 2006)
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Credits, page 2
Judith Siess, “Thinking About…Keeping Up---It’s Not an Option” OPL: Newsletter for Librarians and Management (22:2, June 2005, updated April 2006) [email protected]
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Listservs
Electronic mailing lists
Provide updates directly to your mailbox
As each post is added, or
Daily (or more frequent) compilations or digests
Older, less interactive, but simple
Examples: PUBLIB, WEB4LIB, AUTOCAT
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Blogs
Web-based
Periodic articles or entries
Online diaries
Many are subject focused, even if that subject is simply one middle-aged librarian’s look at the world
Examples: It’s All Good, Shifted Librarian
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XML
Extensible Mark Up Language
Powers the various ways of getting information around the Web
Why should you care?
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RSS
Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary (the controversy continues!)
Creates a link to content from site A (the creator) to site B, your e-mail, aggregator (next slide), or home page
Just look for the logo!
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Aggregators
A tool to bring it all together
“Pull” versus “Push”
Examples: My Yahoo!, Sharp Reader
Sounds expensive. How much is this going to cost me?
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Three Ways to Discover New Sites
Blog rolls
“Best of” lists
Cross references
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Blog rolls
A list of blogs that a blogger
reads or recommends
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“Best of” lists
Only as good as the person or
organization that compiles the list (or counts the
votes!)
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Cross References
Bloggers are reflexively cross-referential
We frequently point to other posts to help propagate a new idea…
…or, occasionally, to embarrass the miscreant who suggests something dumb
Again, consider the source!
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Three ways to get content
My Yahoo!
Sharp Reader
iTunes (podcasts)
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My My Yahoo, Before
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My Yahoo!
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My Yahoo: Three Steps
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My Yahoo Create 1
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My Yahoo Create 2
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My Yahoo Selections
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Adding Lorcan
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Adding Lorcan 2
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My My Yahoo
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Sharp Reader