the zune?
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Thursday, November 16, 2006
Saturday, November 04, 2006
Library Teen Photo Contest on Flickr
Looking for another way your library can use flickr?
All the finalists from Lansing Library's Teen Photo Contest have been uploaded to flickr. (thanks Kelly C.!) Most if the photos were taken with disposable cameras!
Adam's sunset photo won based on voting in the library.
I hope next time we'll have online voting via flickr comments...then everybody can vote!
This could be a relatively simple idea to use for Teen Tech Week...maybe we'll run it again in March, along with the other programs we plan.
More details about number of participants, and age range were published in the new 'zine that our Teen Dept publishes, Avatar. Content is written by the teens, and then Kelly C. does the magic in publisher.
All the finalists from Lansing Library's Teen Photo Contest have been uploaded to flickr. (thanks Kelly C.!) Most if the photos were taken with disposable cameras!
Adam's sunset photo won based on voting in the library.
I hope next time we'll have online voting via flickr comments...then everybody can vote!
This could be a relatively simple idea to use for Teen Tech Week...maybe we'll run it again in March, along with the other programs we plan.
More details about number of participants, and age range were published in the new 'zine that our Teen Dept publishes, Avatar. Content is written by the teens, and then Kelly C. does the magic in publisher.
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Friday, November 03, 2006
L2 classes?
Library Garden 's post Where are the 2.0 Classes in Public Libraries? raises some good questions.
as one of the public libraries mentioned...(MPOW is Lansing PL)
I've learned...
One problem I've encountered with our "library 2.0" classes is low enrollment. Despite the marketing efforts (local cable, local newspapers, in-house flyers, newsletters and website), I think some of the people who would be likely to attend a L2 class might not be getting the information, or even thinking of the library as the place to do this!
Suggestions: If you have a computer club in the area, market to them. Also consider ways to reach customers of tech-gadget stores, computer stores, etc.
Right now, I offer those L2 topics perhaps 1 session per a 6 month period in an attempt to get enough interested people for a class. I imagine it all depends on your particular town as well (tech savvy users? .. or not), and demand can be influenced by % of users with home computers. I have never gotten enough people registered to hold the "using the library from home" class! (I need a min. of 3) But.. we had over 500 items renewed online last month, so we have users out there online, they're just not taking classes at the library.
And of course, there is always that special scheduling challenge of time & date.. morning, afternoon, evening, Saturday? If Andrea had to cancel her flickr class due to low enrollment, i sympathize! The head of IT at the high school contacted us because he wanted to present a program on MySpace & Internet safety for parents & their kids, and we had 3 people attend.
The teens enjoyed the blogging class we had this summer, as they were confused during the setup steps on blogger.com, once we helped set up their blogs, they were off & running! They have all since abandonded posting on those blogs created this summer, but perhaps life and school trumped blogging.
For our computer classes, I'm still getting mostly seniors and aging boomers trying to learn enough computer skills to be more competitive in the job market. They all average 3 or 4 classes (mouse, email, internet, MS word) and then we don't see them again. Most of them don't even take the class in how to use the library catalog--even though they don't know how! I did have a few seniors take L2 classes, but they were systematically taking EVERY free class we offered. (They never posted a second entry to their blogs.)
Those of you deciding to offer L2 classes, be prepared to explain why in the world would they want to post their pictures on the web (flickr), why would they want to save their favorites to del.icio.us, and why might they want to read and subscribe to a blog if they can just go to the website to read it? Staff who may need to answer questions about the classes also need to understand this as well.
Tips for planning your explanations:
1. Find the least-tech savvy person at your library and show them one of those sites, and see what kind of questions they ask.
2. Remember your own first experiences seeing these sites for the first time.
Flickr: Upload that old photo you found in the attic, to flickr, then have family members add comments & notes to share memories of those relatives and identify them! Upload pictures throughout the year instead of 1 holiday photo for the relatives. Photos from family reunions, weddings, celebrations? Everybody can share and print out the ones they want. Upload once, instead of all the time involved sending those emails with attachments.
del.icio.us: Multi-computer household? access the bookmarks everywhere, even school or work. College student? access bookmarks even in the computer lab. Laptop crash? Bookmarks are safe! work example: we're doing cross training to fill in at different desks, if the sites i need to do my 'regular' work are in del.icio.us, I can do that work while I staff the other desk.
Bookmark websites of stuff you want for xmas, then give family your del.icio.us URL! don't restrict yourself to the Amazon wish list! Planning a trip with a group? add sites to del.icio.us as you research things to do, restaurants, tours, hotel, airport and transportation info and everybody in the group has everything in 1 place.
Blogging: share family recipes. share family news year round (instead of the holiday newsletter)
Podcast creation: market to kids in bands... easy way to get a clip of your demo on the net...and into iTunes!
Other cool examples? Comment!
as one of the public libraries mentioned...(MPOW is Lansing PL)
I've learned...
One problem I've encountered with our "library 2.0" classes is low enrollment. Despite the marketing efforts (local cable, local newspapers, in-house flyers, newsletters and website), I think some of the people who would be likely to attend a L2 class might not be getting the information, or even thinking of the library as the place to do this!
Suggestions: If you have a computer club in the area, market to them. Also consider ways to reach customers of tech-gadget stores, computer stores, etc.
Right now, I offer those L2 topics perhaps 1 session per a 6 month period in an attempt to get enough interested people for a class. I imagine it all depends on your particular town as well (tech savvy users? .. or not), and demand can be influenced by % of users with home computers. I have never gotten enough people registered to hold the "using the library from home" class! (I need a min. of 3) But.. we had over 500 items renewed online last month, so we have users out there online, they're just not taking classes at the library.
And of course, there is always that special scheduling challenge of time & date.. morning, afternoon, evening, Saturday? If Andrea had to cancel her flickr class due to low enrollment, i sympathize! The head of IT at the high school contacted us because he wanted to present a program on MySpace & Internet safety for parents & their kids, and we had 3 people attend.
The teens enjoyed the blogging class we had this summer, as they were confused during the setup steps on blogger.com, once we helped set up their blogs, they were off & running! They have all since abandonded posting on those blogs created this summer, but perhaps life and school trumped blogging.
For our computer classes, I'm still getting mostly seniors and aging boomers trying to learn enough computer skills to be more competitive in the job market. They all average 3 or 4 classes (mouse, email, internet, MS word) and then we don't see them again. Most of them don't even take the class in how to use the library catalog--even though they don't know how! I did have a few seniors take L2 classes, but they were systematically taking EVERY free class we offered. (They never posted a second entry to their blogs.)
Those of you deciding to offer L2 classes, be prepared to explain why in the world would they want to post their pictures on the web (flickr), why would they want to save their favorites to del.icio.us, and why might they want to read and subscribe to a blog if they can just go to the website to read it? Staff who may need to answer questions about the classes also need to understand this as well.
Tips for planning your explanations:
1. Find the least-tech savvy person at your library and show them one of those sites, and see what kind of questions they ask.
2. Remember your own first experiences seeing these sites for the first time.
I'll admit the first time I saw Jenny Levine speak (in 2004) about del.icio.us and flickr it didn't click. I was overwhelmed realizing there were so many sites I didn't know about, and at that time I couldn't quite understand why I might want to use them. This was no fault of Jenny's presentation, it was the first conference I attended, and I was overwhelmed at the amount of information exchanged.3. Find examples that will be relevant to the patrons.
I remember making notes to learn more about RSS. Initial research on sites I was interested in returned few RSS feeds. My local newspapers still do not offer feeds (and yes, I have contacted them requesting feeds.)
I have vague recollections of signing up on flickr shortly after that to make sure nobody else got my preferred id. I also signed up the library's id. May 2005 I uploaded the first photo to the library's flickr account (we're old skool) but didn't publicize its use, as we were mostly just experimenting.
2005, the first pic of me that I know of was posted to flickr. (by Jenny) I remember asking her "are you posting those pics to flickr?" (duh, of course she was) then rephrasing my question to ask what tags she'd be using. I uploaded my first photo to my personal account Nov. 2005. Subscribed to a few photostreams...and the rest is history.
2 years changes a lot. Now, I get more ideas & inspiration from reading blogs than list-servs and I'm becoming one of those people who are annoyed when a site doesn't have a feed!
Flickr: Upload that old photo you found in the attic, to flickr, then have family members add comments & notes to share memories of those relatives and identify them! Upload pictures throughout the year instead of 1 holiday photo for the relatives. Photos from family reunions, weddings, celebrations? Everybody can share and print out the ones they want. Upload once, instead of all the time involved sending those emails with attachments.
del.icio.us: Multi-computer household? access the bookmarks everywhere, even school or work. College student? access bookmarks even in the computer lab. Laptop crash? Bookmarks are safe! work example: we're doing cross training to fill in at different desks, if the sites i need to do my 'regular' work are in del.icio.us, I can do that work while I staff the other desk.
Bookmark websites of stuff you want for xmas, then give family your del.icio.us URL! don't restrict yourself to the Amazon wish list! Planning a trip with a group? add sites to del.icio.us as you research things to do, restaurants, tours, hotel, airport and transportation info and everybody in the group has everything in 1 place.
Blogging: share family recipes. share family news year round (instead of the holiday newsletter)
Podcast creation: market to kids in bands... easy way to get a clip of your demo on the net...and into iTunes!
Other cool examples? Comment!
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LJ announces feed for Rachel Singer Gordon column...Thanks LJ!
via PubLib
As promised, we've created an RSS feed for our longtime Computer Media column and the new Computer Book Prepub Alert:
Vive la technologie!
Heather McCormack
Managing Editor, LJ Book Review
360 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10010
(646) 746-7058/FAX (646) 746-6734
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