1. Books, Bytes Blogs and Wikis Ray Uzwyshyn, Ph.D., MLIS Dept. of Digital and Learning Technologies UWF Libraries, 2008-2009 Wider Rationales for UWF Libraries New Technology Strategies

2. Library Blog Library Wiki Library Weblog: Books and Bytes Available from Homepage, Jan 2008 Wordpress 2.26 – PHP/MYSQL http://library.uwf.edu http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/library http://library.uwf.edu http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/library Library Task Force Wiki Internal, Staff Groups, July 2008 Wikimedia – PHP/MySQL http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/tf-wiki- 1.12 http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/tf-wiki- 1.12

3. 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

4. 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

5. Advantages  Instant 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

6. Wikis & Blogs Characterized as  Web 2.0 Information Technology Tools Participatory Media  Citizens’ Media  Disruptive Technologies To Publish on the Web

7. 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?

8. The Millennials (born 1980-2000) Currently largest and most diverse student generation in American history 39% of total population; 36% minority Collaboration- oriented Tech-embracing Generation N Neil Howe and William Strauss, Millennial Rising, Vintage, 2000

9. 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

10. 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

11. How can you best find relevant information? 1)60% The Web In a virtual setting 2) 15% Google 3) 12% Weblogs 4) 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 source 8)0.3% In a classroom 9)0.15% From a teacher/professor 10) 0.15% At the library reference desk Information Seeking Among 10,000 Millennial Pew Foundation Study, 2007 95% Web

12. Web 2.0: 1998-2008 Interactive Web: Explosion of Commenting

13. 75% of internet users 15-35 regularly rate persons, organizations, or organizational services online Information Sharing, Frank public evaluation

14. Review By Peers, 1998-2008

15. Potential of Feedback (2 way communication with Users, Democratic Media, participatory epistemology, participatory democracy)

16. What are our patrons/students/faculty thinking?

17. 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

18. Content Creation by Age

19. 79% of internet users 18-35 subscribe at least 1 blog Accessing New Information Content

20. Two thirds of 15-35 year old internet users use RSS feeds Information Customization

21. http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/library

22. Share Information

23. Inform

24. HyperLink to Deeper Web Resources

25. Permalink and Archive Include Archives (Searchable) Include unique URL for each post (Permalink) http://librarydigital services.uwf.edu/l ibrary/?p=55

26. Save Useful Links

27. Subscribe

28. Characteristics of a Blog? 1-2/week 5-6/month Frequently Updated Posts

29. Relatively Pithy Entries Information Bytes Rather than ‘Sound Bites’ Death of Literacy - Birth of Digital/Visual/Information/Media Literacy

30. Brief Focused Announcements / Articles 2-5 Paragraphs/Entry, Brief Focused with links and images

31. Newer Entries Older Entries Emphasis on Current Information

32. Weblog Organization Chronological By Date Thematic By Category Domains of Knowledge

33. Sophistication/Scalability is Possible 40 th Anniversary Digital Image Archive as Reverse Engineered Weblog http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/anniversary/

34. http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/tf-wiki-1.12 Wikis

35. Knowledge Collaboration Tools Open Editable Versioning Historical Progression of Encyclopedia Epistemic Trajectories http://www.wikipedia.org/ Paradigmatic Shift of Knowledge Production & Dissemination Shifting Models of Scholarly Production

36. Getting Started by Contributing http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/tf-wiki-1.12

37. Wikis as Workgroup Collaboration/ Learning Tool Developing, Sharing, Collaborating on Documents Universe of Knowledge Specific Domains of Knowledge

38. Everything in A Wiki is Open Editable and Reeditable Simpler Nomenclature (little coding experience needed) Radically Open Architecture Organic Morphology

39. Versioning Histories Basic Definition Nuanced Knowledge Domains Authors, Revisions, Reasons, Versions Universe of Knowledge New Taxonomies of Knowledge

40. Interactivity Media Specificity, Disruptive Technology, Paradigm Shift New Tools Impact to Prevailing Models : Teaching, Scholarly Infrastructures, Scholarly Production Knowledge Production Uncharted Territory, Unexploited, Unexplored

41. Questions? Library Weblog: Books and Bytes http://library.uwf.edu http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/library http://library.uwf.edu http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/library Library Task Force Wiki http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/tf-wiki-1.12 http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/tf-wiki-1.12 Ray Uzwyshyn, Ph.D., MLIS Head, Digital and Learning Technologies UWF Libraries, ruzwyshyn@uwf.edu (850)474-2448ruzwyshyn@uwf.edu UWF 40 th Anniversary Digital Image Library http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/anniversary/ http://librarydigitalservices.uwf.edu/anniversary/ Project Briefing: D-Lib Sept/Oct 08: http://www.dlib.orghttp://www.dlib.org http://library.uwf.edu/weblogwikipresentation.ppt Presentation