Wednesday, November 13, 2013

What's up for 2014 - Stephen Abram Cybertour

Stephen Abram. Stephen's lighthouse blog for slides

Here's some things he thinks libraries should think about doing or being involved in during 2014!

  • Moocs.
Potential for 28-38% of universities to be bankrupt within 10 years
Khan Academy
Learn4life. High school equivalent; ed2go
Lynda.com. Growing 400% a month
Libraries can be the place people go to receive their certification testing or badges (be a facilitator of a program or developer of a program or both)...like a proctor+. 

  • Some social media sites to watch:
SomeeCards. Show personality of the library culture
Snapchat. Personality of the library 
Tumblr get a connection to teen boys
Pinterest. Middle age women. Promote books

  • Cloud storage, infrastructure and software:
Get 60-80% savings to IT costs (less server and software installation and maintenance)
"Online server backups pretty freaking secure. Govt use it why aren't you?"

  • Cloud data for curated data warehousing:
Oclc worldshare
DPLA. Discoverability of free metadata

  • Visualization. Primary learning styles for visual learning. We need to provide visual displays
Word clouds
Cube technologies
Visual search

  • User experience- eye frame studies
Are you displaying next step search for a visual learner?

  • Do Sentiment search on social media sites:
Look for Bias. Topsy.com. Analytics for political focus or positive/negative sentiment
Quality
Facets. Critical thinking

  • Use good Infographics 
Extract real stuff impacts out of annual reports
Useful for fun extractions. Here's the 10 pieces of info I want you to get out of this annual report or program or new piece of information.

  • 3d printing 
Many Patents expire soon
Smithsonian. Take pic of boat, scan, print model on 3d printer
Library collection -good for looking for inspiration for students/artists
Get girls engaged with STEM stuff

  • Arduino. Raspberry Pi
Create a laser gate counter for next to nothing using arduino
Robotics
Lego
Dimensional toys as tools to connect with all ages!

  • Librarybox
Hotspot. -
Kelaine insert:  I'm so glad to hear him mention this...validates my Little Free Digital Library idea for local author audiobook/poetry marketing/promotion

  • Crowd funding
Rally.org. Libraries are using
Indiegogo
Kickstarter

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Tech Librarian Gaffaw

So I was looking through MELcat (elibrary.mel.org) today for a recent book I heard about at the Internet Librarian conference and hoped I could find through inter library loan. I'm hoping it can give me some ideas for the cataloging technology bits of the local author digital audiobook creation project I'm trying to get off the ground.  

So anyway, I drop in Accidental Systems Librarian, 2nd edition* in the keyword defaulted search box 
* (by Nichole C. Engard with Rachel Singer Gordon)

Here's one of the early results...Crisis Counseling and Tramatic Events Treatment Planner

Followed by...Practical Homicide Investigation: tactics, procedures, and investigative techniques

Yep. Technology will be the death of me!



Saturday, November 9, 2013

Digitization & Social Media: Strategies and Tools

Kenn Bicknell
Digital Resources Librarian, Depart of transportation LA library and archive
There was a TON of stuff in his presentation..
Kelaine Note:  He would be awesome for an all-staff presentation!!

His department saw a 57% budget cut in 2010.

What he wanted to accomplish with his new endeavors/goals:
Accessibility. Competing for eyeballs and want to be mindful that we can be the experts for something
Embodiment. Becoming trusted source for and protector of resources/archives
Patronage. Keep them coming back for more

3 phases of digitalization
On demand
File size and email restrictions: Externally accessible server. Started flickr collection
Aggregating the news coverage. daily transportation headlines on daily basis. Email via reference-cc'd him and he's building knowledge base-mini Wikipedia 

Phase 2 scanning whole collections
Adding links to catalog records
Harvesting born digital and grey literature
Initiate document sharing site
Establish self as 

Behinds scenes slide
Paper.li.  Compartmentalizations your tweets and reposts?

Phase 3 
Shelf by shelf inventory
Protocols for OCR, standardized metadata, files structure

Primary resources blog serves as new website
Flickr account getting amazing hits. Nearly 4 million views
Interesting side notes. Fashion and PR exploration
Engage users to enhance metadata about photos they find or are donated

One image a day on tumblr. Exponentially added to flickr traffic
Oac. California digital archives

Groundswell. book by Charlene li

News and information
Blog, twitter, paper.li

Digitalization started with employee newsletters
Anniversary events
Other disseminators picked up their content

Online calendar. This date primary resource calendar that he puts in people's face everyday

Uses Feeddemon - a free RSS feed reader for Windows

Batch emphasis:Quantity over quality

Historypin.com . Photosharing that accommodates video. Has Chronology data layer too.  Money from google superimposed augmented reality with google streetview.  Passes the 16 year old boy test

Publishing constantly on Facebook but through interaction with other services, not directly?!

Determining mutually beneficial relationships
Create google custom search
Leverage search capability of tool?

Tiki-Toki. Timeline
People plotter spelling?

Got a collaboration gig with the Getty because they found their stuff online

Search the rest:audio video and images cybertour

Greg Notess, Montana State University
@notess

Pic worth a thous words

Images for info
Videos n audio for learning

Images
Can sometimes find deep web, or authoritative text a simple google search buries. Click through the pic for the website/text

Use for a Visual id. What is a Petrel?
  Use query to see a petrel. Remember though, 10% images are wrong in bing and google

Find Charts, diagrams, graphs
  Myocaster distribution

Image similarity search filter option. Defaults to similarity of color first. Enter keyword to get true theme

Google image search   Use camera icon to upload an image
See search tools more info in Preview
Use this to check for exactly same image for copyright violation or Creative Commons reuse statistics.

Tineye -reverse image search
Upload image or web address. Can use to find similar image collections or where your pics have been reused on the interwebs.

Finding Creative Commons licensed images
-Google. Advanced image search. Usage rights free to use or share option. 
-Wikimedia commons
-Flickr advanced search. Cc license
-Bing images.  License tab

Videos
Uses: Learning (how-to), visual processes, event activities (recent and old)

YouTube
Vimeo
Bing video
InternetArchive: US tv news and also movies

Search:
How-to
Lecture
Duration, closed caption, source
YouTube filters

Audio
No audio database yet that he's found
Do youtube and video searching for audio
InternetArchive audio


Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Musician Digital Discovery programs presentation from Internet Librarian 2013

Diane Cowen, Virtual Services Librarian. Soundswell local music project: Santa Cruz public library Cowend@santacruzpl.org. @groovacious
David Dodd, Sonoma County Library

Other communities have music/musician discovery services
Seattle band map.com

Sonomalibrary.org/community. Local author community website already in place...wanted to do the same type of thing for local music community

General emphasis on the local community, artists, artisans, food, small business
Local music food bank fund raisers CDs

One of David's favorite books...The atlas of new librarianship. By David Lankes 

Pretty much unknown but wonderful musicians

How gather info for database
  • Personal
  • Crowd sourcing
  • Personal interviews
  • Google search [Sonoma and music]
  • ReadCd and liner notes
  • Use Facebook and google together to discover more bands/musicians
Put info into excel database
Also added Photos and Posters/fliers--Collect and digitize
Partnership for larger regional music archives
Community media center

Need to follow up with him as he ran out of time to explain the discovery system he uses.

Santa Cruz music project
Local music project. Received a LSta eureka grant for funding
Wanted it to be a Geographical discovery tool
Wanted to include Compensation & copyright for the musicians. Songs are inclued in a downloadable database for certain about of time (2yrs) under public rights. Then not downloadable but placed in historical archive.
Payment to musicians. Sliding scale. Based on number of songs the musicians donate, $50-100
Discovery and access tool
Historical archive

Goals
Seen as a shaper of the local arts community
Stimulate value of local musician communities.
Based on Iowa city project idea!

Building the database and data entry
Omeka. Digital archiving software. Dublin core metadata authority
Ripping and scanning - more time consuming than she anticipated
Soundcloud. Has plugin for omeka. But Soundcloud is Not able to handle authentication to library cards, so needed to create an authentication tool.  They wanted to become curators of the material and only allow access to their own library patrons.
After authenticating library card, it downloads a zip file of the selected song

She mentioned issues with getting the musicians to follow through with providing their digital files.  
Says Problems are worth it though

The future
  • 2yr cycles of collection overturn
  • Collect other digital files, fliers, interviews,