Social Networking Sites from NASIG
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Social Networking Sites from NASIG


This list of social networking sites comes from an article I'm co-writing with David Lee King, based on the presentation he gave at NASIG 2008 on Emerging Trends, 2.0, & Libraries. David referred to lots of cool sites which highlighted his point about various social networking sites @ your library.

The article is in press (actually, it's still on my computer!) but will be published by the Serials Librarian. Once it's been finalized, I will post the pre-print here with further details about publication.

In the meantime, here are some of the “sites that share stuff” which David described while defining and explaining Web 2.0. As I write in the paper, the demonstration was really key in understanding how these sites work. My notes cannot accurately convey the interactivity of these sites either, so David and I hope that you will go visit some of the sites that sound intriguing. Below, you will find some of the sites David showed, along with some of his examples.












Flickr
  • See David’s Flickr photo “stream” at http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidking
YouTube
  • See the Topeka Shawnee Library’s videos at http://youtube.com/user/TopekaLibrary
Last.fm
  • Share the last song you listened to!
LibraryThing
  • See David’s LibraryThing catalog at http://www.librarything.com/catalog/davidleeking
MySpace
  • Steele Creek Teen Library on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/steelecreeklibrary
Twitter
  • David’s Twitter “feed” is at http://twitter.com/davidleeking
  • MarsPhoenix Twitter “feed” is at http://twitter.com/marsphoenix
del.icio.us
  • See the Lansing Public Library’s del.icio.us bookmarks at http://del.icio.us/lansingpubliclibrary
Sample wikis
  • St. Joseph County (Indiana) Public Library's Subject Guides http://www.libraryforlife.org/subjectguides/index.php/Main_Page
  • Chad Boeninger’s “Biz Wiki” http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/bizwiki/
  • Stevens County (Washington) Libraries Wiki Project http://209.173.246.13/index.php/Main_Page
Instant Messaging
  • Search the Topeka Shawnee catalog for subject keyword = “willen” and on the “no hits” page, you’ll see a Meebo widget for IM when the library is open: http://catalog.tscpl.org/ (if the library is closed, you’ll see an email form for questions)
Podcasts
  • Thomas Ford Memorial Library’s Click-a-Story http://www.fordlibrary.org/children/clickastory/
  • Oral histories from the University of Georgia’s Richard B. Russell Library http://www.libs.uga.edu/russell/collections/oralhistory.shtml
Videocasts
  • Brookside Baptist Church (Brookfield, WI) “Live Services on the Internet” http://www.brooksidebaptist.org/liveservices
  • El Dîa de Los Niños/El Dîa de Los Libros (Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library) http://tinyurl.com/dianinos
Extending the Library Catalog
  • Hennepin County Library Catalog entry for the Da Vinci Code: http://tinyurl.com/hennepin (note how you can refine or broaden searches using LCSH as well as the ability to leave feedback on items in the catalog)
  • Ann Arbor District Library Catalog entry for Eating Korean: http://tinyurl.com/eating-korean ((compare the user-generated tags to the Library of Congress Subject Headings for the item)




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