Presentation at Jamaica Library Service (JLS) 2009 International conference.

1. Building together with Collaborative Web Technologies: How Can Public & School Libraries Collaborate?

2. Conference Information JAMAICA LIBRARY SERVICE 60TH ANNIVERSARY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FEBRUARY 16 – 21, 2009 SUNSET JAMAICA GRANDE RESORT & SPA, OCHO RIOS, ST. ANN, JAMAICA

6. Library Automation Yesterday Library’s Database OPAC Bib. records a.k.a. Cataloguing User & or Circulation Records Serial Tracking Records Acquisition records

7. Today’s library automation is undergoing transformation (Cohn et al. xvii). Today’s Web has: “ forced comprehensive re-examination of what automating the library really meant – not just for libraries but for the library user as well ”

8. Because Library users are online… INTERNET

9. Library users’ expectations are CHA NGI NG. Finding information is “fun”! It doesn’t have to be tedious and time consuming like using the library.

10. Library user’s NEW expectations Before the Web, to see what my friends are up to, I had to call them! Now I can get live updates on what they are working on. Isn’t that cool?

12. Library user’s NEW expectations I definitely can access all the information I need in the comfort & security of my home. Right beside my coffee.

14. Cloud Computing The “virtualization of resources that maintains and manages itself Kevin Hartig

21. The Benefit of External Collaboration Stamm, Bettina von. “Collaboration with other firms and customers: innovation’s secret weapon” Strategy & Leadership 32.3 (2004): 16 – 20. External collaboration with other firms & customers result in improved services and expanded company markets.

22. With Virtual External collaboration Wagner, Christian, and Ann Majchrzak. "Enabling Customer-Centricity Using Wikis and the Wiki Way." Journal of Management Information Systems 23.3 (2006-7): 17 - 43. Customers not only access but change the content on a company’s Web presence.

24. Wikis

26. Examples The people's encyclopaedia The people's instructional manual for how-to information

29. Example of Albany County Public Library staff wiki providing information on the department of Technical Services http://albystaff.pbwiki.com/TSS

30. Farkas, Meredith. “Technology Goes Local: Collecting Local Knowledge with Social Software.” American Libraries (Sep. 2008): 50. “ The local knowledge residing in the minds of our patrons is a treasure. Using social software, we can collect and preserve that knowledge for the benefit of the entire community. Since a wiki can receive contributions from many people, it's a perfect tool for collecting local knowledge.”

31. Collaborative Website Development

32. Collaborative Website Development Gary B. Shelly and Misty Vermaat Philipp Lenssen Google Sites (http://sites.google.com) is a “content management system that includes wiki-like features” (268). A content management systems organises and manages access to documents and files, as well as indexing files and documents created by users so as to facilitate searching and retrieval (732).

33. Google Sites http://sites.google.com/site/sites/

35. Google Sites features “ Web-based page-creation tool…” “ buttons for formatting text, creating links, including images... “ several different layouts...from which you can choose…” “ Publishing the site is simple; click the Publish button.” (par. 16) Preston Gralla

36. Collaborative Web Documents: Online document collaboration and sharing

40. Collaborative Customizable Search Engines

42. With today’s developments, Librarians can make search engines better! Just use tools for building customized search engines like Google Custom Search

43. GCSE allows the builder “to focus on selecting valuable content and tuning the ranking criteria, while Google does all the "heavy lifting" of crawling, indexing, ranking, and displaying results.” Eric Enge and John Biundo, Search Engine Consultants

44. “ Reference librarians and digital bibliographers... can crank out their bookmarks and favorites and convert them into focused search engines. Barbara Quint Editor Searcher Magazine

45. When patrons/clients come to the Web site, they can tap the recommended sources automatically as they perform searches. Barbara Quint Editor Searcher Magazine

46. Even after the library is closed and the librarians have all gone home, the genius and experience of the librarians will still be serving patrons, 24/7/365 (366 in a leap year).” Barbara Quint Editor Searcher Magazine

47. We have learnt of the new Web tools & Services that we can use to collaborate. So what’s next? Let us clarify our options!

48. THIS WAY PLEASE!

54. Now you know! Why not do! Collaborate! Now!

55. The END.