Nuggets from RUSA Preconf on Changing Reference Services
2007 June 23
Friday I spoke as part the RUSA Preconf on Reinventing Reference with Michael Stephen, David Lee King, Dave Free, and David Ward. Although many of the different topics that the other folks are talking about I know a great deal about, being at the preconference is a great experience for two reasons. First, it is great to see the other folks present and interact with them. Second, there were a bunch of different nuggets that even I was able to take away.
A few gems from Michael Stephens
- Building renovation, build it in Second Life first! See what people think. Get them to interact with the space.
- 200 reference questions per week in Second Life at Library Reference Desk!
- Facebook Applications are hot
Some tidbits on chat from David Ward
- MySpace IM can be accessed via Trillian
- Facebook has chat applications
- Chatbots for library applications
Dave Free and David Leek King make podcasting and video blogging super fun
- Ask Ninja video on Podcasting
- Fireant, MeFeedia – video aggregators I didn’t know existed
- What is Barbie had a book club
Also here are my presentation slides and links to most of the blogs/tools I mentioned as part of my presentation.