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Collaborative Tools for Libraries
Meredith FarkasNorwich University
San Jose State University
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Blogs
• Why blog collaboratively?– Easy to set up and use– Encourages informal communication– Comment mechanism allows for discussion– All communication is in one place in reverse
chronological order– RSS feeds
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Internal library staff blogs
http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/newmanreference/
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Drupal (drupal.org)
• Content management system on steroids• Allows for the creation of many different
types of content – pages, blog posts, wiki pages, etc.
• Custom content types can also be created for subject guide pages, landing pages, etc.
• Many, many users can be part of a drupal community, each with different user rights.
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Drupal for Groups
http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-education
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Wikis
• Content management system• Allows people to collaboratively develop a
website without any tech-savvy• Wiki=quick (in Hawaiian)• All community members can add to or edit
the work of others
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Wikis for collaborative resource development
http://www.ahistoryteacher.com/~ahistory/apwhreview/index.php?title=APWH_Exam_Topics
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Wikis for Staff Knowledge Sharing
http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/antioch_university_new_england_library_staff_training_and_support_wiki/
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Collaborative Document Creation
• Allows a group to create word processing documents, spreadsheets and presentations online.– Google Docs (http://docs.google.com) – Zoho (http://zoho.com) – Etherpad (http://etherpad.com/ allows users to
truly work synchronously on the same document)
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Collaborative Planning Tools
• Allows a group of people to plan anything together online.
• Synchronous and asynchronous tools• Collaborative whiteboarding and
mindmapping applications– Twiddla (http://www.twiddla.com/) – Bubbl.us (http://bubbl.us/) – Dabbleboard (http://www.dabbleboard.com/) – Mindmeister (http://www.mindmeister.com/)
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Collaborative Planning Tools (cont’d)
• Screensharing tools– Yuuguu (http://www.yuuguu.com/) – Dimdim (http://www.dimdim.com/)
• Project mangement software– Basecamp (http://basecamphq.com/) – Zoho Projects (http://projects.zoho.com/)
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Collaborative Tagging
• Just like regular browser bookmarks, but web-based and using tags instead of folders
• Tag - descriptive metadata• You can assign multiple tags to anything
you bookmark• Your bookmarks can be public or private• Most popular social bookmarking tool:
delicious (http://delicious.com/)
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Tagging for an Organization
http://delicious.com/stcclibrary
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Tagging for a Class or Group Project
http://delicious.com/tag/libr246-13