The following is an alphabetical list of library web pages that list experimental, beta, or trial web tools and services. Is your library's site missing? Please contribute other web sites not listed here.
The New Web has brought with it some amazing tools for creating online subject guides. These tools offer the addition of multimedia and multi-format elements such as photos, videos, social bookmarks, RSS feeds, and widgets to traditional resource guides, as well as an interactive dimension which makes them particularly 2.0. Here are a few tools for creating your own 2.0 guides. Got any other ideas for subject guides? Please share them in the comments!
Librarians are experimenting with a wide range of Facebook Apps ranging from the productive such as the 30 Boxes Calendar, Meebo, Twitter, and Zoho Online Office to the silly with Zombies, Likeness, My Aquarium, and SuperPoke. Here are the first three Facebook Apps designed for the librarian in all of us:
VuFind is a library resource portal designed and developed for libraries by libraries. The goal of VuFind is to enable your users to search and browse through all of your library's resources by replacing the traditional OPAC to include:
* Catalog Records
* Locally Cached Journals
* Digital Library Items
* Institutional Repository
* Institutional Bibliography
* and more...
At a packed session for academic librarians attending the annual meeting of the American Library Association, in Washington, the topic was how to help students who have learned many of their information gathering and analysis skills from video games apply that knowledge in the library. Speakers said that gaming skills are in many ways representative of a broader cultural divide between today’s col
Library 2.0 group of photos on Flickr.
Article on merging library and IT staff, services, and physical space in higher ed.
Kathleen Gilroy, CEO of Ottergroup in Cambridge, MA, collected a bunch of interesting links from George Mason University and Defense Acquisition University's 2007 e-Learning Symposium. The links reflect Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 themes.
As more educators and librarians collaborate in an online environment, wikis (which in Hawaiian means “quick†or “very fastâ€) provide users with a tool that can be easily accessed, edited, and updated. As we create a more collaborative 2.0 school library environment, wikis provide an opportunity for students, teachers, parents, administrators, and community members to actively create new information for others.
Google Co-Op allows you to create not just a customized front-end, but a customized search set for Google to query. Garrett Hungerford used Google Co-Op to create LISZEN, a customized search engine that searches library blogs.
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The following is an alphabetical list of library web pages that list experimental, beta, or trial web tools and services. Is your library's site missing? Please contribute other web sites not listed here.
Article on merging library and IT staff, services, and physical space in higher ed.
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