Stephen Abram: Stephen's Lighthouse. Abram has his finger on the pulse of libraries and all manner of new technologies. This is one of the best blog's in the profession, hands down.
Gerry McKiernan: Friends: social networking sites for engaged library services "is devoted to application and use of online social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace) for all types of library-related programs and services."
David Lee King: www.davidleeking.com
recommends Twitter -- a global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or right here on the web. David Lee King of Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library has a great blog discussing emerging new media from a librarian's perspective. His entry is Twtter Explained for Librarians, or 10 ways to use Twitter may give librarians some ideas for future applications.
Meredith Farkas. The Social Software in Libraries site is a companion to the book: Social Software in Libraries by Meredith Farkas (2007). The book covers many relevant topics including: Blogs, Blogs in Libraries, RSS Feeds, Wikis, Online Communities, Social Networking, Social Bookmarking, Synchronous Online Reference, Podcasting, and Future Trends in Social Software. The site includes links to other resources.
Meredith Farkas' blogs are Information Wants to be Free and TechEssence She has also created a wiki: Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki for librarians.
BOOKS AND ARTICLES:
Chad, Ken and Paul Miller. Do Libraries Matter? the rise of Library 2.0.
http://www.talis.com/applications/downloads/white_papers/DoLibrariesMatter.pdf
Coulter, Priscilla. "Blogging It into Them: weblogs in information literacy insstruction. " Journal of Library Administration; 2006, vol 45. issue 1/2. p 101-15. This article describes blogs as a means of supplementing face-to-face information literacy instruction and library outreach to graduate students and distance education.
Farkas, Meredith. "Going Where Patrons Are." American Libraries. April, 2007, p 27. See comments about Farkas above.
Gardner, Susan and Susanna Eng. "What Students Want: Generation Y and the changing function of the academic library." portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2005, vol. 5, no. 3, p. 405-420. This article presents the results of a 2003 user survey of library use among undergraduates.
Gordon, Rachel Singer. The NextGen Librarian's Survival Guide. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2006. (978-1-57387-256-0) This is a book designed primarily for librarians but would be good information for all of us. Singer-Gordon writes a regular column for American Libraries also.
Hewitt, Anne and Andrea Forte. "Crossing Boundaries: identity management and student/faculty relationships on the Facebook" This is a description of a poster based on a 2006 survey on perceptions of faculty who use facebook. Results indicated that 1/3 of students surveyed did not believe that faculty should be present on Facebook at all.
Huwe, Terence K. "Some Best Practices for Personalizing Outreach." Computers in Libraries. Feb. 2006, vol 26, no 2, p 36-38. Considers blogs, RSS and creating personalized outreach services. There are some interesting possibilities for libraries
Lackie, Robert J. "WEB 2.0 and Its Technologies for Collaborative Library Communication." MultiMedia and Internet @Schools. Nov/Dec. 2006. vol 13, no. 6, pp 9-12. Talks about blogs, RSS feeds, del.icio.us, wikis.
Lenhart, Amanda and Mary Madden. "Social Networking Websites and Teens: an overview" Pew Internet and American Life Project. Jan 7, 2007. The Pew Internet and American Life Project is a great resource for current data. I have found they keep the finger on the pulse of numerous aspects of our culture that directly relate to the internet as well as our spiritual lives.
Lorenzo, George; Diana Oblinger and Charles Dziuban. How Choice, Co-Creation, and Culture Are Changing What It Means To Be Net Savvy. Educause Learning Initiative. ELI Paper 4. October, 2006. Discusses current culture changes and how higher education can respond and adapt to Web 2.0.
McDonald, Robert H. and Chuck Thomas. "Disconnects between Library Culture and Millennial Generation Values." Educause Quarterly, 2006, p. 4-6. What are the gaps of services we provide? McDonald and Thomas discuss how libraries need to pay attention to "embedding themselves and their resources into the everyday tools, spaces and activities of today's learner."
see also: Chuck Thomas and Robert H. McDonald, "Millennial Net Value(s): Disconnects Between Libraries and the Information Age Mindset" (August 15, 2005) Florida State University D-Scholarship Repository, Article #4. http://dscholarship.lib.fsu.edu/general/4
Mathews, Brian S. "Do you Facebook?" C&RL News. May 2006. p 306-7. Matthews was one of the first librarians to write about library applications using Facebook among Georgia Tech students.
Peek, Robin. "Librarians on Second Life" Information Today. Feb. 2007, vol. 24, no. 2, p. 15-16
Pierce, Jennifer Burek. "Who's on Second?" American Libraries. Feb. 2007, p. 46. Two articles about Second Life, creating an avatar, and librarians who "play" and "live" an Info Island life.
Rosedale, Philip as told to Michael Fitzgerald. "Only the Money is Real." Inc. Magazine, Feb. 2007. p. 81-85. What is Second Life? This article explains the basics. It's more about the financial viability in the for profit world. Not directly about libraries.
Sauers, Michael P., Blogging and RSS: a librarian's guide. Medford, NJ: Information Today. 2006. (978-1-57387-268-3) Looks like a promising book for libraries who want to explore library applications of blogs and RSS.
Stone, Brad. "The Battle over YouTube." Newsweek. October 9, 2006. p. 48-49. This is one of thousands of articles on YouTube and their copyright issues.
Tapscott, Don. Wikinomics: how mass collaboration changes everything. 2006. This book looks promising. Don Smeeton recommended it in his presentation on Library Thing.
SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITESWikipedia's List of Social Networking Websites
LINKS:
Itunes
YouTube
LibraryThing
OTHER
ALA TechSource This is a good source for learning the latest: Drupal, Joomla, Moodle...This links to the TechSource blog but there are also reports, newsletters, and other info.
Academic Librarians: have laptop will travel. David Rothman has posted on his blog a nice video describing Macon State College Library's "Laptop Librarian" program. Rothman's blog is primarily related to medical librarianship but this video describes an innovative way for the librarian to meet students "on their turf."
Thomas, Deepak and Vineet Buch. YouTube Case Study: Widget marketing comes of age
Start-up Review: analyzing web success
