Presentation for VALA 2010 by Sue Cook and Con Wiebrands. If reusing please remove CSIRO branding and template. Copy of paper available via http://www.vala.org.au/conferences/vala2010/vala2010-programme (registration required)
Faculty Profile prashantha K EEE dept Sri Sairam college of Engineering
Keeping up: strategic use of online social networks for librarian current awareness
1. Keeping up Strategic use of online social networks for librarian current awareness Sue Cook, Information Specialist, CSIRO Information Management and Technology Constance Wiebrands, Manager: Library Services Edith Cowan University Library
2. CSIRO. Keeping Up- VALA DSpace OpenURL Open Archive Initiative Unicode XML STORS VERS Open source Sirius AARLIN CONZULSys SWIFT PDA ILMS Distributed authentication OCLC Virtual Learning Environment
41. Weeding tools CSIRO. Keeping Up- VALA As at 1/ Feb listed 50+ tools to help follow or unfollow people
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44. Thank you CSIRO IM&T Library Services Sue Cook Information Specialist Email: sue.cook@csiro.au Edith Cowan University Library Constance Wiebrands Manager: Library Services Email: c.wiebrands@ecu.edu.au CSIRO. Keeping Up- VALA Contact Us Phone: 1300 363 400 or +61 3 9545 2176 Email: enquiries@csiro.au Web: www.csiro.au
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So I started reading online. I got a smart phone and read some forums and then blogs about that. I discovered Shifted Librarian and Lorcan Dempsey’s (he was a keynote at VALA2004) weblog and a whole world of library blogs. Soon I had discovered RSS feeds and then I had a couple of hundred feeds and was drowning in information.
I needed filters.
Roberts Scoble’s sphere of influence on twitter in 2007
Of 118 respondents who answered the question “How long have you been working in the library sector?” 53 (44.9%) said they have been working for ten or more years in the library sector. 29 (24.6%) respondents had been working for between five to ten years in the sector, while 34 (28.8%) had been working for one to five years. Only 2 (1.7%) respondents had less than a year’s experience in the library sector. From these results it would appear that the age of a library professional does not necessarily predict their use (or otherwise) of SNS.
Twitter, Friendfeed and Ning were predominantly used for sharing and obtaining information whereas Facebook was used for contact with family and friends
Non reciprocal relationships aids information discovery
A brief look at Twitter might be in order. Trending topics – by the minute, of the day, week
To use, as with all other SNS you will need to create an account
Twitter is about who you follow. Think about having a phone. If none of your friends or family have a phone it would be a very dull experience
Show followers numbers @flexnib Direct messages Favourites Retweets
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I receive notifications of people that have started to follow me. I can choose to just let them but I tend to evaluate them to see whether they are worth following or I can choose to block them if I consider them to be spammers. I evaluate them on their profile, what they have said, if they are conversing with anyone that I am already following. A recent feature of twitter designed to help “curate tweets into meaningful real-time experiences” according to the Twitter developers http://blog.twitter.com/2009/10/theres-list-for-that.html for the obsessive categorisers amongst us. However it is proving a useful evaluation tool. If someone new appears on someone else’s “librarian” list I know a little more about them. Have a look at this example. I received notification of this follower. I had a look at his tweets and profile and was undecided. A look at the lists he was on however showed me that at least two other people cared enough to list him as a spammer.
Using twitter for research
A trending or popular topic of discussion Note the #