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Fictioneurs, Versifiers, Thinkers & Tinkerers: Managing Virtual Collections and Services Across Platforms in the Web 2.0 Era JJ Jacobson, Danielle Kane, Karmon Runquist, Jennifer Hamilton, and Sarah Clark D204 – Managing Virtual Collections & Services, Across Platforms

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Presentation give at Internet Librarian 2009.

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Fictioneurs, Versifiers, Thinkers & Tinkerers:

Managing Virtual Collections and Services Across Platforms 

in the Web 2.0 Era

JJ Jacobson, Danielle Kane, Karmon Runquist, Jennifer Hamilton, and Sarah Clark

D204 – Managing Virtual Collections & Services, Across Platforms

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Community Collaboration

Culture as an extended community conversation• Second Life is Very Social Software• Interaction: Socializing and communicating synchronously

and asynchronously • Library facilitates the conversation

o Vetting and reflecting interests collections, reference, exhibitions, events

• Institutional personality: branding• Speak with the local accent

o Take the civic life, values, and modes of expression seriously

• Library woven into community life

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Real Costs

Data Storage

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Real Costs

Collections, Exhibits, Programs, and Miscellaneous

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Real Costs

Volunteer and Free Resources

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Volunteer Coordination

Unique challenges

• Coordinating volunteers in many time zones requires tools and creativity• Steep learning curve, including communication skills and effectively presenting information in a 3-D virtual environment• Volunteers must be particularly self-motivated, and cope with SL's inherent distractions• "First Life" takes priority, leading to turnover issues and challenges in retaining institutional memory and assets

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Volunteer Coordination

Unique Opportunities

• Collaboration with information professionals, library students, and historians around the world• More opportunities for creativity and innovation than are possible in an RL Library

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Collection Development and Management

Across Platforms

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Colliding      Spaces...

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Technology...

as a Framework for Community

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Multiple platforms not a goal – inevitable consequence• Working to save the time of the user• Meeting volunteers and patrons on the multiple platforms where they live, work,

play

Tools should serve, not drive • Known needs of users always the priority• New tools evaluated critically, adopted as they serve clearly identified needs

Invaluable opportunity for professional development• Collaborating in this entirely virtual environment is an opportunity in a low-stakes

setting to become more adept at choosing and using Web 2.0 tools• Cross-platform experience makes us better able to serve our patrons in both

Second and "First" lives.

Can’t just kick the tires• Web 2.0 tools = communication/collaboration• Even the most tech adept can only get a sense of them from behind the wheel

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Thank YouDanielle KaneResearch Librarian for Emerging Technologies and Service Innovation University of California, Irvine

JJ JacobsonAssociate Curator for American Culinary HistoryWilliam L. Clements Library, University of Michigan

Karmon RunquistWeb Content ManagerWentworth Institute of Technology

Jennifer HamiltonGraduate Student, School of Library and Information Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

Sarah ClarkAccess Services and Distance Learning LibrarianRogers State University, Claremore, OK

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