Week 5 - Photo Sharing

Welcome to Week 5 of Ezra Edition

Photo-sharing and image-creation (Flickr, Picasa, etc.)

A picture says a thousand words - imagine what you could say in pictures about the library!
Photo sharing in Plain English

Archives is using Picasa which does similar things

Online photosharing can open a can of worms when it comes to copyright and intellectual property. Many people attach a a Creative Commons license to their photos, videos, blog posts and other born digital creations. This license specifies what other people are allowed to do with the content(s)/creation(s).

There are 7 permutations of the Creative Commons - or CC - licenses:

• Attribution : CC BY View License Deed
• Attribution-ShareAlike :  CC BY-SA View License Deed
• Attribution-NonCommercial : CC BY-NC View License Deed
• Attribution-NoDerivs : CC BY-ND  View License Deed
• Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike : CC BY-NC-SA  View License Deed
• Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs : CC BY-NC-ND View License Deed
• Public Domain (or "All Rights Granted") : CC0 CC0 tool

These licenses are based in US Copyright Laws and are generally observed by legitimate re-users of other people's content. I generally use CC: BY-NC-SA for my pictures and CC: BY-SA for my blogging and micro-blogging content.

Several of my friends in the computer have their photos re-used all over the place because their choice of CC license is conducive to remixing and recycling internet content. I also know a few people who CC0 (make public domain) anything they publish on the internet, so their ideas and content will get wide distribution.

Suggested Activities:

• Explore information about Creative Commons
• What do you think about CC licenses? Are they worthwhile? Why/Why not?
• Check out Aaron's flickr photostream 
• What stories in pictures is he telling?
• Compare to pictures tagged with aaronthelibrarian
• What stories in pictures are being told about him?
• Check out the Libraries and Librarians flickr Group
• What are these libraries saying with their pictures?
• University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
• Utah State Library
• UGA Library
• Search flickr for interesting pictures
• Look for any licensing restrictions (such as CC: BY, NC, etc.)
• Check out the Lehman Library Archives images available on Picasa
• How does the Picasa layout compare with the flickr layout? Which do you prefer?

Week 4 - Wiki

Welcome to Week 4 of Ezra Edition
Wiki (Wikipedia, pbwiki/pbworks, library success wiki, etc.)

Wiki are Doug's favorite thing (or they were until LibGuides arrived anyway). Think of a wiki like a shared word document on the S drive. Anyone with edit permissions and access to the wiki can update the content. For example, some libraries are using wiki to house their policy and procedures manual(s).

Here's a quick overview of what wiki are and can do:

Basically Wikis are group collaboration on speed.

Another way to describe a Wiki is to think of a shared LibGuide. One person creates the LibGuide and then anyone with edit access can make changes. The main difference is the LibGuide takes pre-authorization, where a Wiki is more freely editable (unless access restrictions are applied).

Discovery Exercises:

• Check out some things which are interesting to you on Wikipedia
  (I chose to do look for the wikipedia page for Corvairs and learned about a few Corvairs I did not know about (specifically the hockey team))
  
  • Look at the “Discussion” tab on wikipedia articles which interests you to see what things have been removed/added/disputed - sometimes these discussions can get heated.
  • Find web articles comparing the reliability/accuracy of Encyclopedia Britannica to Wikipedia for comparison information - how many articles about this on the web are actually in a wiki? :)
• List a few ways you think a wiki could improve your workflow and/or how a Wiki might actually dis-improve it.

Week 3 - Social Networking

Welcome to Week 3 of Ezra Edition

Social Networking or Microblogging (Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook, etc.)

"Social Media" is the current communication-channel darling. This is where a lot of the current conversation about library topics takes place. The "old" places (conferences, blogs, email lists, webpages, journals, etc.) still are valid communication channels, but the newest stuff is coming to the fore in social media. The communication channels are fragmenting/fragmented - for good or bad.

Here is a quick overview and some of the platforms being used:

• More students are using “Social Networking” for everything
  
• Create a Twitter account for yourself, find interesting people to follow
  
  (@awd for example)
•  Social Feed Aggregators
  There are websites which allow "lifestreaming" which aggregate and broadcast the updates from many Social Networking services. The library uses Freindfeed to aggregate Shiplibrary blog and Twitter updates, flickr & Picassa uploads, LibAnswers Questions answered, LibGuides created or updated, and much more.
• Check out Friendfeed
• Check out Facebook
  If you’re not on Facebook, and don’t want to be either, you can get with someone who is on Facebook (or who doesn’t mind creating a Facebook account) and friend folks you feel like catching or keeping up with. I've heard from folks that the only reason they are on Facebook is to keep up with their kids or grand-kids)

Discovery Exercises:

• Check out the ShipLibrary Friendfeed page
• What do you think about it? Write a blog post and link it in the comments below
•  Take look at some library twitter accounts to see how libraries use (or don't anymore) twitter
• Create a Twitter account and follow a few libraries
• Take a look at "Social Feed Aggregator" websites (like Friendfeed or Facebook)
• Specifically check out the trivia found in this feed and comment on the pros and cons of following or sharing this kind of information.
• Friendfeed offers an option called "Rooms" - check out the Library Society of the World
• What do you think of the topics on the first page or two? Would this kind of resource be helpful to use here at Ship? How about at the KLN level for keeping up and discussing who is doing what and how in KLN libraries?