Recent replies to "Networking librarians?"

Reply from Rosa Raskin

Rosa Raskin — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:37:10 -0000

Colleagues and Friends:

Global collaboration appears to be occurring as evidenced by such science portals as World Wide Science, an international sci-tech portal at http://www.worldwidescience.org

Forty one international sources are included in some of the searches I have performed to date.

I can not verify as to the comprehensive aspect of the database and I am not an expert on the concept of “Federated Search” (Searcher, July-Aug, 2008, pp.22-24, 61-62) but have search products from the database that are multi-lingual and appear to be evidence of networking on an international scale, something those of us regularly researching global sources, as independent information specialists trained in the sciences, welcome.

Rosa

Reply from Gerry McKiernan

Gerry McKiernan — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:27:12 -0000

Friends/

The TinyURL for my Facebook presentation is

[ http://tinyurl.com/ywr8t8 ]

/Gerry

Reply from Gerry McKiernan

Gerry McKiernan — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:24:32 -0000

I am pleased to announce the availability of my PPT presentation delivered at the recently-concluded LITA National Forum 2007:

In Your Face(book): Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services

[ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/LITANationalForum2007.ppt ]

Outline
Web 2.0
Social Networking Services
Facebook
Librarian Facebook Presence
Institutional Facebook Presence
Library Facebook Presence
Facebook Library Groups
Facebook Groups for Professionals
Service Facebook Groups
Facebook Applications
Facebook Apps for Libraries
Iowa State University Facebook Community
Facebook Outreach Projects
Implementation and Promotion Strategies
Project Results
Future Plans
Readings and Resources

Enjoy!

/Gerry

Reply from Gerry McKiernan

Gerry McKiernan — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:26:20 -0000

Friends/

In case there were doubts that a SeaChange is UnderWay [:-)
[ http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-sea1.htm ]

/Gerry

Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World

[ http://www.oclc.org/reports/sharing/ ]

The practice of using a social network to establish and enhance
relationships based on some common ground-shared interests, related
skills, or a common geographic location-is as old as human societies,
but social networking has flourished due to the ease of connecting on
the Web. This OCLC membership report explores this web of social
participation and cooperation on the Internet and how it may impact the
librarys role, including:

The use of social networking, social media, commercial and library
services on the Web
How and what users and librarians share on the Web and their attitudes
toward related privacy issues
Opinions on privacy online
Libraries current and future roles in social networking

The report is based on a survey (by Harris Interactive on behalf of
OCLC) of the general public from six countries-Canada, France, Germany,
Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States-and of library directors
from the U.S. The research provides insights into the values and
social-networking habits of library users.

Print copies of the report will be available for order on Monday,
October 29.

Download the complete report [PDF: 8905K]

Download individual sections of the report:

Introduction [PDF: 683K]
Our Digital Lives [PDF: 1044K]
Our Social Spaces [PDF: 2576K]
Privacy, Security and Trust [PDF: 903K]
U.S. Library Directors [PDF: 1490K]
Libraries and Social Networking [PDF: 374K]
Beyond the Numbers [PDF: 1018K]
Report Highlights [PDF: 597K]
Conclusion [PDF: 105K]
Appendix A: College Students in Our Networked World [PDF: 1091K]
Appendix B: Glossary [PDF: 209K]
Appendix C: People Consulted [PDF: 98K]
Appendix D: Readings and Other Sources [PDF: 236K]
Appendix E: About OCLC [PDF: 251K]
Appendix F: Comparative Timeline [PDF: 2094K]

Reply from Gerry McKiernan

Gerry McKiernan — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:22:16 -0000

Friends/

IMHO: It’s ALL About Networking – Online and Offline.

/Gerry

Reply from Frank Norman

Frank Norman — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:58:36 -0000

I agree with Oliver – I just recently joined this site and my reason was to see whether it is useful for users, and to be where they are. I think today’s generation of researchers will have very different expectations of information delivery from 20 years ago.

Reply from Oliver Obst

Oliver Obst — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:20:12 -0000

The simple answer is: Yes, librarians should network for scientific reasons. But maybe I understand “scientific reasons” in another way. Like Meredith farkas, I would like to go where the users are. If they are on Nature Network, why not serve them here? Just to experiment if we can be useful to them and gain some reputation for the modern library? In that way, a forum called “Innovative Library” would make much sense for me.

Reply from Christian Hauschke

Christian Hauschke — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:40:43 -0000

The networking experiment has been moved to Ning.