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Backroom Blogging
8 June 2007
Thursday, 7 June 2007
Information Blogs by Information Professionals:
how acquisitions, cataloguing & subject librarianship are good blog-fodder
Anne Welsh
Information Officer
DrugScope
Ref Blogs
Blogs = Web-
logs
= online diaries ... Blogger's help notes still define a blog as an online diary.
Enquiry desk logs got in on the act early on:
2003 onwards
Ref Grunt
Content Over Format
(Photo by kj. -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nitsrejk/126982680/
)
We read journals and books for their content -
not
their printing, however much we value it.
In Web 2.0, the same applies.
Cataloguing 1.0
Skills include:
Analysis
Structuring and entering information
Understanding of materials & subject(s)
Understanding of information retrieval
Products often include:
Catalogue records
Catalogue databases
Current awareness lists
Cataloguing 2.0
1.0 Skills and products can translate to:
Creating RSS feeds (structuring / entering data)
Blog entries from the catalogue
Current awareness products on blogs and social bookmarking sites
Acquisitions 1.0
Skills include:
Understanding user group's information needs
Knowledge of where to obtain materials
Up-to-date information on forthcoming publications
Product:
Well-stocked library / information service / organisational resource
Acquisitions 2.0
1.0 skills may translate to:
On order current awareness feeds / blog entries (
cf
. Cataloguing 2.0)
Blog posts about forthcoming publications / from print and electronic vendors
Acquiring web docs and web refs - creating social bookmarking sets
Subject Knowledge 1.0
Skills include:
Familiarity with sources (print & online)
Acquaintance with specialists / experts / colleagues in other institutions
Ability to orientate users in research methods and materials
Products include:
Reading lists
Subject guides
Information literacy training
Subject Knowledge 2.0
1.0 skills may translate to:
Blog articles
Blog-based / screencast- / vodcast- / podcast- subject guides
Reading list-style social bookmark sets
"Snippets" from ongoing research / project work
Contacts for guest posters
Management 1.0
Skills include:
Strategic planning
Collection management
Writing policy / procedures
Administration
Service promotion
Products include:
Policies / procedures
Well-trained staff
High-profile / well-regarded service
Management 2.0
1.0 skills may translate to:
Web 2.0 strategy
Wiki-based procedure / policy manuals
Managing a virtual (or partially virtual) collection
Indexing, Taxonomies, Tags
Structural Issues
Lots of feeds syndicated to web-pages?
One blog / set of bookmarks with a feed per tag?
Wiki pages, sidebar, etc. - mini-web-page taxonomy?
Labels / Tags
To tag or not to tag?
Tag clouds or tag lists?
What about synonyms?
Losing control / spreading the load?
Everybody's Doing It
If only there were this number of LIS students interested in "real" Cat & Class!
The Personal Touch?
"Describe works of art in your own words" (
http://steve.thinkdesign.com/steve.php
, accessed 7 June 2007).
Seth Van Hoolland's presentation at CIG Conference 2006 drew together research and practice from the cultural sector. The title
From Spectator to Annotator
is moot.
In his research,
comments were sometimes personal
, bringing a different quality.
What They Want, What They Really, Really Want
The most popular tags cloud on flickr (as at 8 June 2007):
... or think they want.
Surely we can create meaningful terms?
Combining tagging with traditional indexing could provide a whole new search (and search again) experience.
Whether we become Web 2.0 or not, there's something we can learn about our users' experience.
Librarian 1.0 (1947)
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Picture credits
1.0 pictures are stills from
Your Life Work: Librarian
, a 1947 careers education film from the USA. Distributed through YouTube and Internet Archive. 'Old printing press' photo by kj,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nitsrejk/126982680/
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