A 2.0 Toolkit

for libraries large and small

Kaijsa Calkins and Laura Crossett
Wyoming Library Association Conference 2008
newrambler.net/lisdom/wyla2008

Presentation Materials

• Kaijsa's presentation blog post
• handout from the presentation

Blogs

• Rebecca Blood on what a blog is.
• Try it out yourself at blogger.com or wordpress.com.
• The Park County Library website is actually a blog.
• Some other Wyoming blogs: The Powell Tribune Blog, The Daily Coyote, Law Library Letter, WYLD Databases, Patty's Palaver, SSLMPBlog, Wyoming Arts, Wyoming State Library News, Sweetwater County Library System blogs
• Lots more library blogs from all over

RSS

• RSS in Plain English is a good video introduction.
• Bloglines.com, Google Reader, and Netvibes are tools you can use to read RSS feeds.
• Bloglines for Librarians in Three (and a half) Easy Steps

Wikis

• Wikis: A Beginner's Look--a presentation by Meredith Farkas
• Start your own wiki at pbwiki or Wikispaces.
• Wikipedia is probably the most famous wiki.
• Subject guide wikis: SJCPL Subject Guides, Norwich University Research Guides
• Some Wyoming wikis: Wyoming Authors Wiki, Reading Wyoming wiki, Park County Library System staff wiki
• You might also want to check out the Library Success Wiki

Instant Messaging

• Get an IM account at AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, or MSN Messenger. Gmail also comes with built-in chat.
• Chat with Kaijsa or Laura online through their Meebo widgets (no IM account needed!)
• To sign into multiple accounts at once, use meebo.com, or download Trillian or Adium (Mac only).

Social Networking

• Facebook and MySpace are the most well-known social networking sites.
• See also Ravelry (for knitters), Last.fm (for music), LibraryThing, LinkedIn (for "professional" social networking), and many more
• Look for the Wyoming Library Association and the Coe Library on Facebook.

Photo Sharing

• There are a lot of places to store and share photos online: Kodak Gallery, Photobucket, Snapfish
• Flickr is one of the most popular and is the most social.
• Wyoming libraries on Flickr: Park County Library, Coe Library, Albany County Library

Contact

• Kaijsa: kcalkins@uwyo.edu | 307.766.6553
• Laura: laura@parkcountylibrary.org | 307.868.2248