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Libraries, Technology, and Collaboration:
Bring People Together Without Bringing Them Together
NYLA’2005New York Library Association
Buffalo, NYSaturday – October 29, 2005
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Sponsored byNY3Rs Association
pdf file of the handouts (2 slides per page)is available at
http://www1.union.edu/~cosseyd
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David V. Cossey
BA, The King’s CollegeMA, Lehigh UniversityMS, University of Rhode Island
Chief Information Officer – Union College, at Union since 1986Director of Computing and Instructional Technology, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania – for 7 years prior to coming to Union CollegeBarrington College, 1968-79
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Personal library/book activitiesMember of College’s Library Automation Committee – over 14 yearsCurrently member of Capital District Library Council (CDLC) Board of TrusteesSearch committees: Library Director (2), System LibrarianOwner of many books/avid reader
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Union CollegeSchenectady, New Yorkwww.union.edu
Founded 17952,000 studentsLiberal ArtsEngineering programs since 1845
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“Nothing could be more misleading than the claim that computer technology introduced the age of information.
The printing press began that age in the early sixteenth century. . . .
Fifty years after the press was invented, more than eight million books had been printed, almost all of them filled with information that had previously been unavailable to the average person.” Neil Postman
in Technolopoly,p. 61
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Or to paraphrase
… so many books
. . . so much RAM
. . . still so little time!!
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Current Reading
America’s God by Mark NollHarvard Yard by William MartinThe March by E.L. DoctorowA Link Among the Days: The Life and Times of the Rev. Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin, the Father of Colonial Williamsburg by Dennis MontgomeryKnowing God by J.I. Packer
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Current Reading
Leadership by Rudy GiulianiFaithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season by Stewart O’Nan and Stephen King1776 by David McCulloughThe World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. FriedmanYour Intelligence Makeover: An Easy Way to Learn All you Need to Knowby Ed Droge. Free Press, 2005
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Outline
Enabling technologiesAsynchronous collaborationSynchronous collaborationOnline communitiesImplications for libraries
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Enabling technologies
“Low Threshold Applications” (LTAs)“LTA” – from Steve Gilbert of the TLT Group
emailWeb logs (blogging)podcasting
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Enabling TechnologiesFace-to-Face “Meetings”
Notebook computersWirelessLow-cost devices (notebooks, wireless, projectors)Low-cost web camerasSoftware (Macromedia Breeze, MS NetMeeting, etc.)High-speed broadband InternetData projectors
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Asynchronous Collaboration
wikis and the wikipediaRSS feedsBlogs and bloggingPodcasts and podcasting
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wikis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
“. . . a group of Web pages that allows users to add content, . . . , but also allows others (often completely unrestricted) to edit the content.”
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Wiki software
Can have your own wikiMuch of the software is free under the General Public License (GPL)Usually runs on a server
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RSS and RSS feeds
RSS is a technology used to quickly distribute on-demand information to subscribers of an RSS Feed.This information can be a simple news article or even an Mp3 file (called a Podcast).
Source: wikipedia article “What’s RSS”
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RSSRSS is a Web content syndication format.Its name is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication.RSS is a dialect of XML. All RSS files must conform to the XML 1.0 specification, as published on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website.
<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss>
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RSS and RSS feedsAn RSS feed allows an internet user to easily recieve updates or new content from a website using a simple program called a Feed Aggregator.Feed aggregators work similar to (and are usually included in) modern email clients. A feed is usually shown as a small orange icon, such as one of the following:
Source: wikipedia article “What’s RSS”
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blogs and blogging
Blog (from Wikipedia)A weblog or blog (derived from web + log) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally, but not always, in reverse chronological order). Although most early blogs were manually updated, tools to facilitate the updating and maintenance of such sites made them accessible to a much larger and less technical population.The use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of "blogging."
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Blogging - client software an RSS ReaderOne example – Pluck(from www.pluck.com)
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EDUCAUSE Review online at www.educause.edu
Nov/Dec 2005 issue
Great article discussing Podcasting
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FLOCK: the next generation browser?
www.flock.comPreview version (Build 0.4.9)For Mac OS X, Windows and LinuxFlock community wiki: http://wiki.flock.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
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Meetings (face-to-face)
One-to-oneOne-to-many (example lecturing to a group)Many-to-many
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Synchronous Collaborationfor “face-to-face” virtual meetings
AudioAudio and video
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Synchronous Collaborationfor “face-to-face” virtual meetings
What’s neededComputerInternet connection (preferably broadband)Video cameraHeadset with microphone, or speakers and microphoneConferencing software
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Macromedia Breeze(just one example)
Pictures of some screen shotshttp://www.macromedia.comVideo of sample meeting
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Microsoft NetMeeting
Comes with WindowsXP (but it is “hidden”)Not all the features that you would get in a package like Breeze, but it is “free” (and free is usually nice)
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at Start/Runtype conf and click on “OK” and follow instructions to install NetMeeting
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NetMeeting
Connect a cameraConnect a data projector if being viewed on a screenConnect a headset with a microphone,
orConnect a set of speakers and a separate microphone (if being viewed by more than one person – be careful of feedback)
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Online Communities
Learning Times Network. http://www.learningtimes.org and http://www.learningtimes.netTeaching, Learning, Technology Group. http://www.tltgroup.orgKept-Up Academic Librarian. http://keptup.typepad.com/academicBlended Librarians Web Site. http://blendedlibrarian.org
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Collaborations - Opportunities
Share staff resourcesSave travel expensesShare expertiseMeetingsWorkshopsSeminars
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