Social Networking Sites from NASIG

This list of social networking sites comes from an article I'm co-writing with David Lee King, based on the presentation he gave at NASIG 2008 on Emerging Trends, 2.0, & Libraries. David referred to lots of cool sites which highlighted his point about various social networking sites @ your library.

The article is in press (actually, it's still on my computer!) but will be published by the Serials Librarian. Once it's been finalized, I will post the pre-print here with further details about publication.

In the meantime, here are some of the “sites that share stuff” which David described while defining and explaining Web 2.0. As I write in the paper, the demonstration was really key in understanding how these sites work. My notes cannot accurately convey the interactivity of these sites either, so David and I hope that you will go visit some of the sites that sound intriguing. Below, you will find some of the sites David showed, along with some of his examples.

Flickr	See David’s Flickr photo “stream” at http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidking
YouTube	See the Topeka Shawnee Library’s videos at http://youtube.com/user/TopekaLibrary
Last.fm	Share the last song you listened to!
LibraryThing	See David’s LibraryThing catalog at http://www.librarything.com/catalog/davidleeking
MySpace	Steele Creek Teen Library on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/steelecreeklibrary
Twitter	David’s Twitter “feed” is at http://twitter.com/davidleeking MarsPhoenix Twitter “feed” is at http://twitter.com/marsphoenix
del.icio.us	See the Lansing Public Library’s del.icio.us bookmarks at http://del.icio.us/lansingpubliclibrary
Sample wikis	St. Joseph County (Indiana) Public Library's Subject Guides http://www.libraryforlife.org/subjectguides/index.php/Main_Page Chad Boeninger’s “Biz Wiki” http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/bizwiki/ Stevens County (Washington) Libraries Wiki Project http://209.173.246.13/index.php/Main_Page
Instant Messaging	Search the Topeka Shawnee catalog for subject keyword = “willen” and on the “no hits” page, you’ll see a Meebo widget for IM when the library is open: http://catalog.tscpl.org/ (if the library is closed, you’ll see an email form for questions)
Podcasts	Thomas Ford Memorial Library’s Click-a-Story http://www.fordlibrary.org/children/clickastory/ Oral histories from the University of Georgia’s Richard B. Russell Library http://www.libs.uga.edu/russell/collections/oralhistory.shtml
Videocasts	Brookside Baptist Church (Brookfield, WI) “Live Services on the Internet” http://www.brooksidebaptist.org/liveservices El Dîa de Los Niños/El Dîa de Los Libros (Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library) http://tinyurl.com/dianinos
Extending the Library Catalog	Hennepin County Library Catalog entry for the Da Vinci Code: http://tinyurl.com/hennepin (note how you can refine or broaden searches using LCSH as well as the ability to leave feedback on items in the catalog) Ann Arbor District Library Catalog entry for Eating Korean: http://tinyurl.com/eating-korean ((compare the user-generated tags to the Library of Congress Subject Headings for the item)