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Law Libraries Reaching for the Sky Practical Applications of Web 2.0 Technology
Darlene Fichter
May 26, 2008
Photos by: Courtney Milne
(for use by Saskatchewan teachers and students)
If the Sky is the Limit
• I will (hopefully):• Share knowledge via media, drama, stories• Get to the “Practical”• Have some fun
• You will (hopefully):• Stay awake• Participate and have some fun• Be open minded• Change your world
Web 2.0 / Library 2.0
“Web 2.0 is a name for a bunch of new web-based applications.”
Cal Henderson from Flickr
What’s at the Heart of Web 2.0
• Social phenomena, people to people
• Freedom to share
• Decentralization of authority
• Ridiculously easy group forming
• Easy collaboration
• Abundance of content
Theme Songs ?
I am a rock
I am an island
Photo: thoth92
Some rights reserved.
Theme Songs ?
Your Space My Space
So happy together
But, how does “it” feel?
Need legal info/article?
Finding Journal Articles / Legal Info#1. Go to Library home page#2. Where is the link to online legal info …?#3. Guess which link to click to find x#4. Dozens of databases in an A-Z list “What were they thinking?” #5. “Which one should I try?
What does this stuff mean? HeinOnline, LegalTrac, Decisions on CanLII, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books”
#6. “I have no idea what database to pick.” #7. “Where is LegalTrac– I’ve used that before.”#8. Okay, picked it but does it have “online” stuff?#9. Enter some keywords.#10. Cross fingers, feel lucky.#11. No results aaargh! OR 1000 results …#12. “Why can’t I limit to Sask/scholarly?”#13. Sift through the results one by one.#14. Here’s a result that could work! #15. Click on “Find It” – “aarrgh” no full text#16. Try again – Yes - this could work!#17. If lucky, repeat #9-#11 till done.#18. Otherwise, repeat #4 to #11 till done.
Need Info?
I’ll just Google it!
Maybe my buddy
will IM it to me.
In the midst of Tech Storm
The only safe ship in a storm
is leadership.– Faye Wattleton
Tech Storms
The Perfect E-Storm: Emerging Technology, Enormous Learner Demands, Enhanced Pedagogy, and Erased Budgets – Curtis Bonk
Emerging
Technologies
Erased
Budgets
Escalating
Demands
Enhanced
Services
Look away! Look away!
Photo: Spartacus007 Some rights reserved.
You Can’t Control My Mind!
http://eclectech.co.uk/mindcontrol.php
I’ll Just Watch from Over Here, Thanks!
Photo: Eggybird Some rights reserved
Photo: DavidDMuir Some rights reserved
Stabilo Boss Some Rights Reserved
Embrace it! - Digital Native
Other Responses Include:
• Butting
• Digesting
• Debating
More Responses
• Skeptics• Canaries
Let’s Get Practical
Let’s Get Practical
• To banish ants from the kitchen, find out where they are coming in and cover the hole with petroleum jelly. Ants won’t trek through the jelly.*
• If they are coming under a door, draw a line on the floor with chalk. The little bugs also won’t cross a line of chalk.
50 Amazingly Helpful Time-Tested Tips for the Kitchen by The Life Hackery
Making Sense of Web 2.0
• Making sense of information and acting on it requires not one brain process, but several.
3 Elements of Sense-Making*
1. Do we see the data?
2. Do we pay attention to the data?
3. Can we act, or get others to act on the data?
David Snowdon, “SEE-ATTEND-ACT”http://www.cognitive-edge.com/2007/05/seeattentact.php
SEE
Photos by: Courtney Milne(for use by Saskatchewan teachers and students)
ATTEND
Photos by: Courtney Milne(for use by Saskatchewan teachers and students)
ACT
Photos by: Courtney Milne(for use by Saskatchewan teachers and students)
#1. Learn with Others
• Learn from others in the profession and create learning opportunities for our users
• Web 2.0 is about the sociality of everything we do*
skills: listen, filter, search, tag, annotate,
Nancy “Snow” White: Seven Competencies of Online Interaction Presentation at Northern Voice Blogging Conference, www.archive.org/details/ConferencePresentation
Photo by davezilla was taken
What is a “Wiki”?
• Tool that allows a group of people to
quickly create and edit a web site together
Wiki Design Principles
Wiki Design Principleshttp://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiDesignPrinciples
• Openness and trust – if a page is incomplete or inaccurate anyone
(you allow) can edit it
• Incremental – pages can cite other pages, even those not
yet written
• Observable– you can see the changes being made
• Organic– site structure is up to everyone, and it will
evolve and change
Why wiki?*
• Heather Coleman - Quick and easy way to publish info
– litigation practice group– another for articling students – all
training materials & a forum area to post questions and get answers
• Connie Cosby – inexpensive Intranet for small firms
Wiki me this. Canadian Lawyer Magazine, May 2008
Why not Wiki?
– Document content management system
Wikis in Law Firms – An Alternative View?by Ted Tjaden on Slaw.ca
Other Uses
• Entire library site
• Subject guides
• Event planning
• Support for Project or Team
Social Bookmarking
• Way to filter (by humans)– Winspear Business Library
• http://del.icio.us/Winspearlib
– University of Michigan Dentistry Library • http://del.icio.us/dentlib
– Bibliothèques de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris-IV)
• http://del.icio.us/bibliparis4
Del.icio.us libraries http://angelacw.wordpress.com/2007/06/04/delicious-libraries/
#2. Mix It Up a Little
Just Add Content & Stir
• RSS - The majority of English Canadian legal publishers now have feeds for their new titles
• Steve Matthews: put together this demonstration site aggregating Canadian legal publisher new title RSS feeds: http://www.legalpubs.ca/
River of News
Cut and Paste
Grazr.com
Possible Uses
• Keyword search to – build lists by practice group– list articles by professors– news about your firm, partners,
competitors
• Your better idea here ….
#3. Share What You Know
• Be a filter and guide for your community of users
• Instruction– Blog it– Podcast it– Screencast it– Videocast it
Examples
• Blog current info for practice group
• “Beauty contest” blog– Attract a MAJOR client– Key part of the package
Screencast It!
• Just in time training
• Keep it short
• How to (drop down list here)
• Show and tell
• Dozens of free and low cost ways to share your screen and/or have a shared white board
12 Screencasting Tools For Creating Video Tutorials - Mashable
Example
• The British Columbia Courthouse Library video tutorials– Listed on their site– Hosted on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/user/bccourthouselibrary
Browser Based Webcasting
• Free: – Dimdim– Yugma + Skype– Vyew– Zoho
• Commercial– Lots of options
Why Network?
• Networking is one skill you need to practice to get ahead and survive these uncertain times. - Effective Networking for Professional Success: Making the Most Your Personal Contacts (Better Management Skills Series) by Rupert Hart
Twitter @legalvoices
• Follow @legalvoices to be added to the stream on legalvoices.com.
• For lawyers & those connected to the legal industry.
Understand Online Community
• Canada has more Facebook users per capita than any other country
• Major US law firms have Facebook groups for articling students
The Gentle Art of Inviting Participation
• Heart of the social networking– http://www.davidleeking.com/
2007/01/03/inviting-participation-in-web-20
#5. Time to Play and Learn
• To use these tools, you need to learn the tools
"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?" - Henry David Thoreau
#6. Quicker To Try
• Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast - Tom Peters
• Learn from what works and what doesn’t
• Create a Library “beta”
#7. Remember to Wear Good Shoes
Photos by: Courtney Milne(for use by Saskatchewan teachers and students)
Summary
SEE-ATTEND-ACT
Photos by: Courtney Milne(for use by Saskatchewan teachers and students)
Keep Your Eye on the Horizon
Photos by: Courtney Milne(for use by Saskatchewan teachers and students)
Photos by: Courtney Milne
(for use by Saskatchewan teachers and students)
Questions?
"And now Edgar's gone... something's going on around here“ Photo: Manu, via flickr
Thank you
• Connie Cosby• Cindy Chick• Mary Tastad• Sabrina Pacifici• Peta Bates• Nina Platt• Jim Miles• Steve Matthews• SLAW bloggers
Contact Me
• Email me:– [email protected]
• Follow me on Twitter– http://twitter.com/fichter
• My Blog– Library2.usask.ca/~fichter/blog_on_the_side
• Facebook– http://www.facebook.com/people/Darlene_Fichter/122200386