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Tech Sharecase, 14 July 2011
Attendees
Arthur Downing, Lisa Ellis, Stephen Francoeur, Joseph Hartnett, Jin Ma, Ryan Phillips, Stella Varveris, Michael Waldman
Intro
In advance of the meeting, attendees were asked to focus on the topic of social networks and academy:
- how do students use social networks and which ones are they using now?
- what might students expect of the library and its staff who are on the same social networks (for example, how do they want to interact with an institutional accounts on networks? how do they want to interact with us as library staff with personal/professional accounts on these networks?)
- how do faculty use social networks and which ones are they using now
- how is scholarly communication being altered by the growth of social networks (see, for example, this report by the Centre for the Study of Research Communications at the University of Nottingham titled “Social Networking Sites and their role in Scholarly Communications”pdf)
- how we we use social networks for professional development? for pinging the hive mind?
What We Discussed Regarding Social Networks
- a list of library vendors that have presences on Twitter, Facebook, etc.
- libraries that have Facebook profiles
- academic departments and offices at Baruch that have Facebook profiles
- Bulletin board for reference questions at the home page of the library at Shanghai Normal University
- the video “Hangout” feature in Google+ that Roy Tennant from OCLC used while we met that let him hold an informal video conference call with librarians who wanted to talk about the 856 field.
Mobile Databases Page
We got a preview of the mobile databases page that will link users to library databases that are optimized to work on mobile phones. The page itself is just an ordinary LibGuide page that looks kind of odd in a regular browser but renders in a much more mobile friendly way in a phone’s browser. The draft of the page shown was the result of the second round of usability testing; the release version of the page will be subject to one more round of usability testing.
LibX Toolbar
A new Firefox/IE toolbar is being developed that will let users search the catalog, our e-journals lookup tool, or Bearcat regardless of what site the user happens to be on. Another notable feature is that when the user is on a book page in Amazon or other online booksellers, a Bearcat icon will appear on the screen that when clicked will run an ISBN lookup in the catalog to see if we own a copy of that item.
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Tagged Facebook, Google, LibX, Mobile library sites, Mobile web, Social network, Tech Sharecase, Twitter
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Tech Sharecase, 15 April 2011
Attendees
Stephen Francoeur, Ellen Kaufman, Louise Klusek, Jin Ma, Ryan Phillips
xtranormal
We checked out a number of library related videos created using the xtranormal service, which lets you create animations.
“Library School: Hurts So Good”
“My Rules for Using Law Library Reference”
Video Interviews of Baruch Professors
At the recent Baruch Teaching and Technology Conference, Keri Bertino from the Writing Center spoke about a project she’s undertaken with a peer tutor to interview Baruch faculty about what research looks like in their disciplines. The interviews are recorded and will eventually be available as videos. This teaser video gives a sense of what the content will be like in the final videos.
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Using Video to Evoke Critical Stances from Students
We talked about this news story from InsideHigherEd (“Calibrating Students’ B.S. Meters,”15 April 2011) that spotlights the work of librarians using videos in classrooms to engage students in critical thinking.
Mobile Library Websites
A recent blog post at iLibrarian featuring 7 ways to build a library website for mobile devices was discussed.
joli Cloud OS
Stephen showed his Dell Mini laptop that was running Joli OS instead of Windows. Joli is built on Ubuntu.
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Tagged Information literacy, Joli OS, Mobil, Mobile library sites, mobile web development, Research methods, Student writing, Tech Sharecase, Ubuntu, Videos, xtranormal
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