Internet Librarian - Podcasting & Vlogging

I got up and ate my chocolate cake and fried artichokes for breakfast. *grin* Breakfast of champions... not!

Then I went to the keynote wherein Clifford Lynch spoke about a cyberinfrastructure for the future. He seemed mostly concerned that all the work people are doing in academia be archived. The idea being that most grants and many programs don't have records management components built in and we're losing data and research. It was interesting but not very relevant to me.

Then I went to the all-morning session on podcasting and video casting

Jeff Humphrey INCOLSA ( Indiana libraries coop)
http://video.incolsa.net/podcasts/incolsa.xml

David Free
http://davidsrandomstuff.blogspot.com
http://www.chattahoochee-review.org
podcasting at GPC Decatur Library
library news blog, then 10 min podcast - reviews of dbs, internet sites, promoting upcoming events, etc. But mostly the same as the blog. Now they do "Listen Up" a monthly news program.
Things he learned:
1. make sure it fees
2. promote it
3. keep it short
4. use music sparingly
5. multiple people, interviews, etc, rock
6. podcast events (longer shelf life than news)
7. consider your web presence (how scattered are you?)
8. Listen to your listeners

Feedburner smart cast makes the link buttons for different podcatchers.

Sean Cookson
Engagement provides alternative, enriched, content perspectives.
Interaction provides anytime, anywhere flexibility, user creativity
Reflction lets users analysze sources and think about content in new ways

Build a point of information:

Chris Kretz - learning to speak: creating a library podcast with a unique voice from higher education blogcon3
http://www.higheredblogcon.com/library/kretz/Learningtospeak.mp3

iTunes U - build a podcast repository that integrates with your school
http://www.apple.com/solutions/itunes_u/

Pointers to podcasts:

Museum podcast directory - arts, education, family, tv&film and personal journals
http://www.museumpods.com/id31.html

Stanford uses iTunes U
http://itunes.stanford/edu

There are university and course-related podcasts but how about 'casts to build community in libraries (interviews with student workers or other such), promote the library (new programs, tours and events), podcasts as professional development tool (higher ed blogcon had a lot of good content)

Syndication for High Ed Podcasting
http://syndicateblog.petersons.com/wordpress/indexphp/category/podcasting

ALA Library 2.0 podcasts
http://podcasts.alablog.org/

Bringing rich media together in subscribable form to enhance our users experience

David King http://www.davidleeking.com/etc
Videoblogging

http://www.rocketboom.com/ - popular vlog

video aggregator
http://www/fireant.com
http://www.itunes.com
http://www.mefeedia.com (watch on the web)

where to store
http://ourmedia.com
http://blip.tv
and many more....

check out this newsgroup:
http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/videoblogging

Internet Librarian - Flickr

Libraries and Flickr

Michael Porter is Libraryman
http://www.flickr.com/photos/libraryman/
an owner of Libraries & Librarians http://www.flickr.com/groups/librariesandlibrarians
There are a lot of libraries on Flickr!

Second Life Library 2.0 has a flicker group.

Picture Australia - http://www.pictureaustralia.org/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/83633840@N00/ and http://www.flickr.com/groups/69431001@N00/

Tony Boston - National Library of Australia
They map the flickr xml elements to dublin core elements and build a catalog of pictures about Australia. They library asks to add pictures to their digital collection so they'll be archived for posterity. It gets more contemporary images of Australia into the collection.

Fiona Hooten - National Library of Australia
The service has 45 collections that illustrate Australia combining historical images from libraries and museums and now contemporary images contributed by users. It gives the collection topical images that might not otherwise be collected. People are also uploading their own historical photos, adding to collection deveopment. It has created a user community that didn't exist before.

Michael Sauers - talks about fun groups
fd's Flicker toys
librarians with big calculators
Nancy Pearl action figure traveling pix
jail finds - things prison librarians find stuck in books
librarian trading cards
library bags - a conference bag group

So naturally I had to go join a bunch of Flickr groups. And I made a Librarian trading card. My card. They are made at http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/deck.php a trading card creation site.

Now we have a 45 minute "networking opportunity. I think I'll just sit here by this outlet and see if my computer will recharge at least a little. *sigh* Nice to have wireless, it would be nicer to have power in the room!

Internet Librarian - social networking and actual networking

I went to MySpace and FaceBook just to see what folks are doing... not places *my* users are likely to hang out! Aaron Schmidt talked about MySpace and the various academic libraries that have created "spaces". He said he had only found one high school library... and it had recently gone to being an individual without mentioning the institution. A clear question of whether school librarians can really go where their users hang out. Schmidt wasn't very flattering about MySpace... I admit I have never visited the site other than to view videos people have sent me. He thinks it is poorly designed and has way too many ads. His screenshots did not make me want to run out and get a space! Cliff Landis talked about FaceBook... a system I admit I had never heard of before this session. He says they seem to be deleting institutional pages so it probably isn't work being XYZ Library, make it XYZ librarian as an individual. *shrug* Wasn't actually planning on visiting.

Someone mentioned "The User Is Not Broken: A meme masquerading as a manifesto"
http://freerangelibrarian.com/2006/06/the_user_is_not_broken_a_meme.php - I'm not even sure it was in this session. Quite a library 2.0 manifesto. I don't think I'm convinced.

Then I went to Mash-Up Tools... but I think you had to have been there for more of the track. I didn't get a handout, which sounds like it was too bad. Maybe I can get a copy from Richard Hulser who was the moderator of that track. I left about 15 minutes early to get over to the Marriott to help set up for the SJSU SLIS Alumni reception. I did the sign-in table and missed the new president's speech... but I was right by the door and I got all the waiters to stop and give me food as they passed so I had some nice snacks. I eventually went in and schmoozed. Most of the folks were from the last 5-6 years of classes with a few going back to the 1970's. But I would guess that out of maybe 40-50 people only 10 where from before the class of 2000. Has everyone moved away? Gone into none-tech jobs? I saw some people I know from solos and was surprised to see how recently they had graduated. Librarianship being almost always a second career there isn't the "youth" factor to guess at one's seniority. I met a handfull of folks from Santa Clara Co. Public who seemed to have cool jobs. I gave a gal who works in Los Altos my card - her library as Dance, Dance Revolution and she may do a class in it for older folks. I have always wanted to try that game. I never thought it would be in a library! I'm finding that even I have library stereotypes!

In case you are interested in the official blog, or some of the other folks more seriously blogging this conference, here are some links:

Infotoday RSS on Lj - http://syndicated.livejournal.com/infotodayblog/ (I was surprised when it showed up in my friends page... I must have subbed it to my feeds last year *laugh*)

The Shifted Librarian RSS on Lj - http://syndicated.livejournal.com/shiftlibrarian/

LibrarianInBlack RSS on Lj - http://syndicated.livejournal.com/librninblack/

Wandering Eyre RSS on Lj - http://wanderingeyre.livejournal.com/ - it isn't up-to-date for some reason but it will take you to her page -http://wanderingeyre.com/ Okay, so I found that annoying and made a new feed on Lj for her - http://syndicated.livejournal.com/awanderingeyre/