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Books, BytesBlogs and Wikis
Ray Uzwyshyn, Ph.D., MLISDept. of Digital and Learning Technologies
UWF Libraries, 2008-2009
Wider Rationales for UWF Libraries New Technology Strategies
Library Blog Library Wiki
Library Weblog: Books and BytesAvailable from Homepage, Jan 2008Wordpress 2.26 – PHP/MYSQLhttp://library.uwf.eduhttp://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/library
Library Task Force WikiInternal, Staff Groups, July 2008Wikimedia – PHP/MySQLhttp://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/tf-wiki-1.12
What are Blogs and Wikis?
Easily Publishable Online Representations of News or Domains of Knowledge
New Tools to Navigate, Share and Interact with Information - Develop knowledgebases
Why do Weblogs and Wikis matter?
• Next generation web tools (evolutionary)
• Envision new, dynamic ways to deliver and interact with information
• It’s where our users (students) are• Collaboration possibilities have
evolved on the Web• Enable opportunities for learning,
communication and knowledge development
AdvantagesInstant publishing to the Internet cost little or nothing (open source)
Provide features that open interaction with others
Empowering allow new avenues for development of
thoughts, ideas and materialization of ideas
Exciting and Dangerous: instant feedback regarding our services, announcements and events
Wikis & Blogs Characterized as
Web 2.0 Information Technology Tools
Participatory Media
Citizens’ Media
Disruptive Technologies To Publish on the Web
• Keeps the library technologically/ culturally relevant
• Keep our digital information space and infrastructure up-to-date
• Meets the demographic of changing student/faculty needs
Why are UWF Libraries exploring Weblogs and Wikis?
The Millennials (born 1980-2000)
Currently largest and most diverse student generation in American history39% of total population; 36% minority
Collaboration-oriented
Tech-embracing Generation N
Neil Howe and William Strauss, Millennial Rising, Vintage, 2000
Not trapped in TV paradigm
Not interpellated in One Way Epistemic systems.
Millennial expect Interaction with Information (Participatory Democracy)
Millennial Have Online Democratic Expectations
Neil Howe and William Strauss, Millennial Rising, Vintage, 2000
Web 2.0: User experience
• Information Expectations are changing
– Change in the way users consume information/ emphasis on interaction
– Subtle changes in technology lead to larger effects
How can you bestfind relevantinformation?
1) 60% The Web In a virtual setting2) 15% Google3) 12% Weblogs4) 8% Specialized Websites, Wikis
5) 2% From or in a group 6) 2% Cell, PDA, GPS (mobile to
a destination)7) 0.5% From a book/print source8) 0.3% In a classroom9) 0.15% From a
teacher/professor10) 0.15% At the library
reference desk
Information Seeking Among 10,000 MillennialPew Foundation Study, 2007
95% Web
Web 2.0: 1998-2008Interactive Web: Explosion of Commenting
75% of internet users 15-35 regularly rate persons, organizations, or organizational services online
Information Sharing, Frank public evaluation
Review By Peers, 1998-2008
Potential of Feedback
(2 way communication with Users, Democratic Media, participatory epistemology, participatory democracy)
What are our patrons/students/faculty thinking?
81% of 15-35 year olds regularly comment on weblogs
35% also post daily on blogs, wikis and social networking sites
Information Sharing and Evaluation
Content Creation by Age
0
20
40
60
80
100
Ages 12-17
Ages 18-29
Ages 30-38
Ages 39-48
Ages 49-60
Ages 61-69
Ages 70+
Per
cent
age
Internet users
Total population
79% of internet users 18-35 subscribe at least 1 blog
Accessing New Information Content
Two thirds of 15-35 year old internet users use RSS feeds
Information Customization
http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/library
Share Information
HyperLink to Deeper Web Resources
Permalink and ArchiveInclude Archives (Searchable)
Include unique URL for each post (Permalink)
http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/library/?p=55
Save Useful Links
Subscribe
Characteristics of a Blog?
1-2/week 5-6/month
Frequently Updated Posts
Relatively Pithy Entries
Information Bytes Rather than ‘Sound Bites’
Death of Literacy - Birth of Digital/Visual/Information/Media Literacy
Brief Focused Announcements / Articles
• 2-5 Paragraphs/Entry, Brief Focused with links and images
Newer Entries
Older Entries
Emphasis on Current Information
Weblog Organization
ChronologicalBy Date
ThematicBy Category
Domains of Knowledge
Sophistication/Scalability is Possible
40th Anniversary Digital Image Archive as Reverse Engineered Weblog
http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/anniversary/
http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/tf-wiki-1.12
Wikis
KnowledgeCollaborationTools
OpenEditableVersioning
Historical Progressionof Encyclopedia
EpistemicTrajectories
http://www.wikipedia.org/
Paradigmatic Shift of Knowledge Production & Dissemination
Shifting Models ofScholarly Production
Getting Started by Contributing
http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/tf-wiki-1.12
Wikis as Workgroup Collaboration/ Learning Tool
Developing, Sharing, Collaborating on Documents
Universe of Knowledge
SpecificDomains of Knowledge
Everything in A Wiki is Open Editable and Reeditable
Simpler Nomenclature(little codingexperience needed)
Radically OpenArchitecture
OrganicMorphology
Versioning Histories
Basic Definition
Nuanced Knowledge Domains
Authors, Revisions, Reasons, Versions
Universe of Knowledge
NewTaxonomies of
Knowledge
Interactivity Media Specificity, Disruptive Technology, Paradigm Shift
New Tools Impact to Prevailing Models :Teaching,
Scholarly Infrastructures, Scholarly Production
Knowledge Production
Uncharted Territory, Unexploited, Unexplored
Questions?
Library Weblog: Books and Byteshttp://library.uwf.eduhttp://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/library
Library Task Force Wikihttp://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/tf-wiki-1.12
Ray Uzwyshyn, Ph.D., MLISHead, Digital and Learning TechnologiesUWF Libraries, ruzwyshyn@uwf.edu (850)474-2448
UWF 40th Anniversary Digital Image Libraryhttp://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/anniversary/Project Briefing: D-Lib Sept/Oct 08: http://www.dlib.org
http://library.uwf.edu/weblogwikipresentation.ppt
Presentation