Reinventing Ourselves as Internet Librarians

Internet Librarian International 2006By Greg R. Notess SearchEngineShowdown.com

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Information Landscape

Change

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Search Engine Changes

MSN Search to Live.com Exalead New Interface Google Sub page results

Mid Page Results

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Commercial Databases

Interface Changes Once a year?

Content Changes Sometimes daily

The Internet Librarian

What are We?

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Reinventing Ourselves?

New Skills vs. Old Skills

HTMLCSS

CMS

AJAX

Perl

JavaScript

XML

Wikis

FRBR

MODS

Blogs

RSS

Web 2.0

Library 2.0PodCasts

Screencasts

XHTML

MARC

Boolean

Concept Codes

Doc Types

Info LiteracyClassification

MeSH

Verification

Thesauri

ControlledVocabulary

Reference Interview

UDC

Boolean

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New(er) Technologies . .

Ipod, Video Ipod Eye Piece for Web Browsing Blackberry Sony Ebook Reader

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Using all these?

Remove the physical library Roving librarian Becomes

A Gadget Covered Librarian?

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Or Vox?

from The Time Machine (2002) Orlando Jones as Vox

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Librarians as

Sponge?

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What’s our future?

Use only blogs, wikis, IM, . . . ? Focus only on new

technology? Forget our old skills?

No& Yes

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Reinvention Does Not Need to

Ignore our strengths Forget our skills Or ignore tech failures

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Absorb and Share More

Maintain strengths from past Build on them with

Future technology

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Collection

Print & Online More to buy than ever before Experiment with new offerings

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Organize

Increasingly complex E-collections in catalog

-or- separate database OpenURL, CrossRef Much still to solve

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Teaching/Instruction

One on one or Group As we push our resources

Push instruction online Screencasting

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Reference Service

Face to face continues More tech questions Virtual reference

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Potential & Pitfalls

Blog: Quick Website msusymposium

“Can’t find anything worthwhile”

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Potential & Pitfalls

RSS Reality Alerts News feeds

Engineering Village RSS feeds and Blog button

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Wiki Wake-Up

Shared Editing User Contributions Conference Wikis

Empty Wikis? Forums?

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Hype Meter

How self centered? Blogs about blogging Diggs about Digg Wikis about wikis

Beware closed conversations

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Web 2.0 Reality

Embedding Content YouTube, iRows

Shared Editing ZohoPlanner, ZohoSheet

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Implementation Matters

Can we out-Google Google? Sirsi Catalog

Include cover screen shots Table of contents Summaries

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Audience Matters

Can we out-Amazon Amazon? WorldCat

User Contributed Reviews Does WorldCat Audience Want?

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New Technologies

Worthwhile to try Good Tech PR Find the Winners Test your Audience

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The Internet Librarian

Old skills and sources Side by Side with the New

Continual Learning Soak Up New Knowledge

Experiment, and Share

Thank You