November 19, 2008

Go Online

I’m lucky enough to be speak­ing at next month’s Online Infor­ma­tion 2008 con­fer­ence in Lon­don, where I’ll be speak­ing about new media chan­nels for libraries (in other words, get­ting your con­tent out in front of users where they already are). I’m in the Brave New World for Libraries and Pub­lish­ers track on day one, but there are many ses­sions at this media con­fer­ence that should be of inter­est to librar­i­ans. I’m look­ing for­ward to see­ing ses­sions in the Order Out of Chaos: Cre­at­ing Struc­ture in Our Uni­verse and Infor­ma­tion Pro­fes­sion­als Sur­viv­ing and Thriv­ing in the New Age, among oth­ers. I’ll also be mod­er­at­ing the Knowl­edge Struc­tur­ing in a Seman­tic World ses­sion on day two.

The con­fer­ence orga­niz­ers have just posted a pod­cast inter­view with me, which is just one in a series with some of the speak­ers. They’ve orga­nized quite a line-up of pre­sen­ters, start­ing with con­fer­ence opener Clay Shirky (hear his inter­view here). If you’ve never heard Clay speak, I encour­age you to take advan­tage of this oppor­tu­nity. I guar­an­tee you won’t regret it.

Please feel free to sub­mit ques­tions ahead of time, and if you’re attend­ing, please intro­duce your­self. Also, I’m still look­ing for exam­ples of libraries tak­ing advan­tage of RSS to dis­play their con­tent on exter­nal sites. If you know of any, please leave me a com­ment here.

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6:40 am Comments (7)

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  1. Hello Jenny,

    Hen­nepin Co library in MN has many RSS avail­able http://www.hclib.org/pub/search/RSS.cfm. I’m try­ing to con­vince my sys­tem to do the same but their are wor­ried about increas­ing the request list too much witha feed for items on order.

    Thanks,
    Mar­cus Lowry

    Comment by marcus lowry — November 19, 2008 @ 10:44 am

  2. From the Pub­lic Library of Char­lotte and Meck­len­burg County:

    Our program-related and holdings-related RSS feeds are all col­lected together on this one page — all built in-house. We’ve also got some on Reader’s Club.

    http://www.plcmc.org/Programs/rsslist.asp
    http://www.plcmc.org/readers_club/rss.asp

    I know that our Arts and Sci­ence pulls infor­ma­tion for their weekly email “CulturePicks.”

    Patrice Ebert

    Comment by Patrice Ebert — November 19, 2008 @ 11:24 am

  3. My library, Jer­wood Library of the Per­form­ing Arts at Trin­ity Col­lege of Music, use RSS feeds to pop­u­late our Face­book page with recently acquired items, how­ever it’s all a lit­tle clunky (not least because the Sim­plyRSS face­book app is bro­ken so I have to man­u­ally refresh the feeds every few days!). If you’re inter­ested the links are

    http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=21740454632
    http://sirsi3.tcm.ac.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/0/TRINITY/0/1/179/X?new_gateway_db=ALL&user_id=all&password=
    (sorry for the hor­rific URL — the joy of OPACs…)

    Edith

    Comment by Edith Speller — November 19, 2008 @ 12:25 pm

  4. Hello,

    In my tech­ni­cal and sci­en­tific writ­ing class I am writ­ing a research paper on the future trends in library sci­ence. I have found this blog to be inter­est­ing and help­ful in some was, but was won­der­ing if any­one here had any infor­ma­tion they would like to share on the topic? I plan to focus on the archi­tec­ture, but other infor­ma­tion would be greatly appre­ci­ated! Good luck at the conference!

    Amy Choate

    Comment by Amy Choate — November 19, 2008 @ 1:56 pm

  5. Thanks for shar­ing every­one. I love the Hen­nepin and PLCMC feeds, but I’m are they being used on exter­nal sites to push the libraries’ con­tent off their web­sites? That’s more what I’m try­ing to find exam­ples of. I think Edith’s use is prob­a­bly the most com­mon exam­ple of this, so thanks for post­ing that URL, too!

    Comment by jenny — November 19, 2008 @ 10:47 pm

  6. This sounds a lot of fun. From a child author in Con­cord, Ca

    What would you say to this ques­tion?
    1. What in your opin­ion is the best way to get out your name as a child author-Via Internet?

    thank you, william sawyers

    P.S I write for the ages of 3 on up

    Comment by william sawyers — November 25, 2008 @ 4:50 pm

  7. I love your stuff! I, too am writ­ing a paper on the future of tech­nol­ogy in libraries.

    I am very inter­ested in uti­liz­ing tech­nol­ogy to bring more young peo­ple into libraries — then force them to read books! Not really, but I have heard recently at the WLA Con­fer­ence of Teens read­ing while wait­ing for the video game — even join­ing book groups.

    I won­der if you’ve seen the pro­to­types for the Aarhus, Den­mark Inter­ac­trive Children’s library? Here is a page that will take you to three YouTube links:

    […]http://www.paloaltansforcommonsense.com/library/articles/pacl_aarhus_libraries.htm.

    If you could for­ward my email address to Amy Choate, I’d like to cor­re­spond with her regard­ing this subject.

    Thanks for a great weblog — I found a few oth­ers for ref­er­ence through yours!
    Cheers!
    Kent

    Comment by Kent Barnard — December 1, 2008 @ 1:46 pm

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