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Library:: Pierce County Libr.: Tacoma, WA

About Me:: I'm System Trainer, intranet webmaster, and author of the Library Stream issues blog and the Mostly NF nonfiction book blog.

Website:: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scampion/

Blog:: http://www.piercecountylibrary.org/blogs.aspx?blog_id=5

Interest in Library 2.0: I developed and teach a Social Web Literacy class for our staff. Its purpose is to expose everyone working for the library to the Social Web, encourage them to participate in it, and begin thinking of ways to bring the library into the 2.0 world. It's already had an effect. We now have blogs, podcasts, wikis, and Flickr & MySpace accounts. We're developing tagclouds, RSS and wikis for our intranet now. More to come, I'm sure...

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Social bookmarking

Saving favorites and bookmarks to your browser helps you -- as long as you use that browser and that machine. Online bookmark management makes your favorites available to you anywhere. Social bookmarking makes your favorites available to others. That may sound odd by itself ("why would I want my bookmarks visible to others?") but collaboration is part of the social web and lets people benefit from everyone else's discoveries.

The most obvious library application for social bookmarking (we'll look at Delicious as a prime example) is at the reference desk. Each librarian has his/her favorite online sources and either marks them in the local browser or relies on Google to find them. But suppose each librarian added URLs to a personal Delicious account and then networked with other librarians for a truly collaborative collection of bookmarks. Not only would the librarian make his/her own list available on whichever machine is in use, but everyone in the network could benefit from websites on the consumer specialist's list or the genealogist's list or the music librarian's list.

But don't stop at the reference desk. Other library staff use and share websites, too; introduce them to social bookmarking. And don't forget the patrons. If you have a list of sites to share, enter them into a separate library account and refer to it on your library website or in conversations: "Oh, and don't forget our Delicious site. It has many more great recipe links."

We hope you enjoy your excursion into the social web and open collaboration.

A library intranet loaded with web 2.0 tools

Yes. PCLS has one of the first library 2.0 intranets. Maybe the first. When given the chance to rebuild the StaffWeb, we decided to give it a big helping of the tools and widgets so popular on the growing social web. Now the staff can write their own blogs and read and comment on those of others; tag pages that have meaning to them; personalize the home page; add widgets; and soon collaborate on a system-wide wiki.

If the old Internet was the read-only web, and social networking tools make it the read/write web, then StaffWeb is the PCLS's collaboration central.

Read, write, tag, wiki, ... It's your web now.

Avatars

We walk around the real world as flesh and blood beings. When we wander into the cyberworld on the social web, we can appear as an avatar. Avatars are images (drawings, animations, or photos) that represent us as we post comments and other content. Online friends begin to recognize you by your avatar. Some people change their avatar based on their mood or whenever they change their hairstyle, but they always get to appear the way they want.

Virtual worlds and game sites have moving three dimensional avatars that walk through cyber environments. And last week IBM and Second Life announced that they are working on a platform permitting universal avatars -- characters that could move from one site (or world) to another.

Avatars are just another way the social web is becoming part of our global culture. Do you have one on your page?

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Hi everyone,

I spend much of my time richocheting between websites these days. I write two blogs: a social networking and library issues blog called Library Stream, and book review blog called Mostly NF. But you'll often find me posting photos on Flickr, too.

As a library trainer, I have a blast teaching a Social Web Literacy course (for which there's a class blog -- an RSS feed is below on the left side of this page). Several people have told me the class blog was useful to them just to get a taste of what we cover in the course. If you stop in to look, I'd love to hear what you think of it. Drop me a line in Library 2.0 Ning.

Spinoffs from that class have included library blogs, podcasts, a library wiki, the library Flickr page, a MySpace page, dozens of social sites produced by newly-addicted staff, and an in-depth LibraryThing class for reference librarians. Even more to come... It's an exciting time.

I'm also in LibraryThing and Facebook and on Ning's: ALAmembers and LibrarianBloggers.

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Starting LibraryStream

I'm launching a new blog this week and I hope you'll visit. It's called LibraryStream.

My plan is to use this blog to follow the course of social software in general and its value to libraries specifically. I’m the system trainer at a large public library system in the Pacific Northwest, a social web participant, and an avid reader. I hope I can marshall all those hats into an interesting blog.

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Social Web class spin-off

Interest in the social web at our library steadily grows. Each time Susan and I teach our Social Web Literacy survey class, we hear about a couple more staff members who have picked up personal interests in blogging, photo-sharing, social cataloging, or some other form of networking.

This week, based on a request from a reference librarian who had attended our social web survey class, I started teaching an in-depth look at LibraryThing. The aim of the class is to delve quite a bit furt…

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Posted on July 16th, 2007 at 9:30am — 2 Comments (Add)

Exposing our entire staff to the Social Web

NOTE: I originally posted this on the ALA Ning, but have since thought that the Library 2.0 Ning is the better place for it. So what follows is kind of a reprint...

Using Michael Stephens' keynote at the Polaris User's Group last October as motivation, we

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At 9:33pm on December 5th, 2007, Angela CW said…: Hi Steve,

I've added Pierce County to my del.icio.us libraries list. Good luck!

Angela

At 2:59pm on July 20th, 2007, Lakegan said…: The mixer was fun! Mel was there too! She seems to be quite to social butterfly! Next year?

At 1:28am on April 29th, 2007, Steve Campion said…: No prob, Emily. I answer to pretty much anything these days. :)

At 7:30pm on April 28th, 2007, Emily Clasper said…: Oops. I meant Steve. :)

At 7:29pm on April 28th, 2007, Emily Clasper said…: Hi Stave, thanks for the comment. I'm glad I'm not alone in my frustration!

At 11:27pm on April 10th, 2007, Steve Campion said…: Thanks everyone. Yes, the class is a joy to teach. Some people come into it thinking they know most of what Susan and I are about to cover but by the end of the second hour they're telling us, "Wow! I had no idea how much was happening ou there. My head is going to explode." We usually smile and remind them that the class is only half over. I wish we could teach it everywhere. Or to the public.

Emily: You're right about the trouble making, of course.

Meredith: Sure thing. I love your writing.

Bonnie: Hope your unconference goes well. Wish I could attend.

Melissa: I look foward to swapping photos with you on Flickr.

Janice: There's no place better to hike or bike that the NW!

At 12:30pm on April 10th, 2007, Emily Clasper said…: Hi Steve, thanks for the invite. Aren't we all troublemakers around here? :)

I love the Social Web Literacy class... I'd love to do something like that for our libraries here. Maybe you can give me some inspiration!

At 5:38pm on April 9th, 2007, Meredith Farkas said…: Hey Steve, thanks for the compliment on my article! It's been so fun being able to highlight great projects like these in a national forum like AL.

At 9:51pm on April 4th, 2007, Bonnie said…: Hi Steve. Social web literacy class sounds cool- going to check it out now...

At 4:01pm on April 3rd, 2007, Melissa Shepherd said…: And the funny thing about interests, the more you read, esp. non-fiction, the more you are interested in...it just never stops. Added you as a contact on Flickr--you will get to see some attractive Huntsville Alabama sights, which don't even compare to the Pacific Northwest!