social media & collection development: bff!
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Presentation for Trendy Topics on April 20, 2011. http://www.trendytopics.info/TRANSCRIPT
Social Media &
Collection Development:
BFF!Steven R. Harris
Director of Collections & Acquisitions Services
University of New [email protected]
Professional Me
Steven R. Harris
Director of Collections & Acquisitions ServicesAssociation Professor of Librarianship
Phone: 505..277.2586Email: [email protected]
Zimmerman Library • MSC05 3020 • 1 University of New Mexico • Albuquerque, NM
87131-0001
Social Media Me
Collection DevelopmentLibrarians
Don’t DO Social Media
case in point
Selecting Poetry
Liorah Golomb, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, in press
Liorah Golomb, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, in press
Why is that?
Tangible
Selection?
Patron-Driven
Community
RadicalCollaboration
SOCIAL MEDIAinto your work life
Integrating
Elements of Selection
• Discovery• Evaluation
• Request
Traditional Selection Tools
• Slow• Bias
• Selective
Discovery
http://www.highspotinc.com/twitterJT.html
Blogosphere
Non-traditional traditional
Unconventional
followthereader.wordpress.com
Managing Feeds
RSS
Evaluation
WorldCat
WorldCatIdentities
LibraryThing
goodreads
Request
WorldCatLists
zotero
del.icio.usdelicious
http://www.delicious.com/srharris19/bought4lib
Amazon
Pitfalls
Uptake
Overload?
Failure to include the analog
Approaches
• Massively friending the user population
• Meet them where they are comfortable their home turf
• Bait and switch teach the tools for other purposes & piggyback collection development
Roles for:• Library users• Subject Librarians• Acquisitions Staff• Head of Collections
Develop a workflow• Listen to Twitter• Confirm on WorldCat• Bookmark on Amazon• Tap into your friends
Living Social
Fin
Photo Credits • Libraryman: Michael Porter: http://www.flickr.com/photos/libraryman/5355118291
• Jeffrey Beall: http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/367606435
• Cindiann: Cindi Trainor: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trucolorsfly/352573802
• Randy Read: http://www.flickr.com/photos/randyread/373935680
• Dave Fletcher: http://www.flickr.com/photos/themechanism/128209408
• Vagawi: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vagawi/3155400274/
• Bryn Davies: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryndavies/3879078437
• Jarkko Sakki: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jarkkos/250725568
• DaveOnFlickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/49392213@N00/5094020069/
• Cindiann: Cindi Trainor: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trucolorsfly/4747022606/
• Presidio of Monterey: DLIFLC & USAG: http://www.flickr.com/photos/presidioofmonterey/4081221064
• Dane Low: http://www.flickr.com/photos/danelow/3751740208
• iirraa: http://www.flickr.com/photos/iirraa/49942285
• Photos o’ Randomness: Christa Burns: http://www.flickr.com/photos/christajoy42/3415556999/
srharris19 virtually everywhere
www.collectionconnection.alcts.ala.org
collections2point0.wordpress.com