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August 10, 2007
31 Flavors - Things to Do With Flickr in Libraries
I have a new article available on 31 things libraries can do with Flickr. Here is the article:
Anderson PF. 31 Flavors - Things to Do With Flickr in Libraries. Web Junction, August 1 2007. http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent;jsessionid=6271E4E033F462C82F258C17BCD5AE4D?id=17624.
Here is brief overview of the 31 things. Details and descriptions in the article. Enjoy!
1. Reference
2. Pics of pages for patrons
3. Library photo-tours
4. Wayfinding tools
5. Embed slideshows in web pages
6. Friends Flickr group
7. Pics of campus and community events
8. Find pics and groups for your community
9. Make new Flickr groups for topics of interest to your community
10. Patrons tag your Flickr pics
11. Pic a tag for public pics of your library, make rss feed
12. Screenshots for online tutorials
13. Collect and share teaching slides
14. Online exhibits
15. Promote special collections highlights
16. What's on New Books
17. Post public domain images from e-collections, link back to source
18. Flickr widget for library homepage
19. Partner with museums or historical society
20. Partner with other libraries and educators
21. Communicate with book-repair staff
22. Communicate facilities issues
23. Capture brainstorming from staff meetings
24. Pics from staff parties
25. Staff photos
26. Screenshots for tech troubleshooting
27. Pics of best practices
28. Pics of poster sessions from conferences
29. Favorites useful pics by others
30. Get ideas for renovations
31. Join Flickr library groups
Posted by pfa at 10:28 AM | Comments (1)
August 06, 2007
Facebook integration
Some of this has been posted in the mlibrary 2.0 facebook group discussion board, but Ken and I have put some work towards integrating library functions with facebook.
These are:
A standard search.
http://apps.facebook.com/mlibrary/
Presently this is a UIUC clone. We're looking into upgrading this to the functionality of the next item on this list, and maybe at some point I'll throw more experimental ideas into the next item.
Update: 8/13/2007
The standard search has been updated to be mostly the same as the beta search. Those of you with the standard search already installed, will find the box in your profile to exhibit the new functionality.
A beta search.
http://apps.facebook.com/mlibrary_search/
This has most of the features I could think to add, and it's entirely integrated in Facebook.
A preview of what to expect:
Search results stay in the Facebook canvas page for the appliation.
You can share the results with friends on facebook, or post them to your profile.
You can click a link to add the book to your mirlyn "My Shelf"
You get stable links to the document in the search results.
Locations are clickable, though they don't take you to the specific library's website at this time, they do search the library pages to find that library.
Some call numbers are clickable. Specifically, if the book is located in the graduate library, clicking on the call number will take you to a map of the the floor you can expect to find the book.
If the book has been digitized by mdp, then a link to its google books page will be provided.
An hours page.
http://apps.facebook.com/mlibrary_hours/
It puts today's hours for your favorite library on your Facebook profile. Nothing too fancy.
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