Sessions Covered: Introduction to Web 2; Tagging; RSS; Blogs & Wikis; Multimedia; Social Bookmarking & Social Networking.

Group Discussion: discuss some ideas on how LIS could use Web 2.0 technology.

• Social Bookmarking – useful for collecting & sharing links, in Blackboard (BB) maybe. Good for supporting students, sending out links.
• Careers: Employers talks made available as videos. Students sharing experience of interviews with a particular employer also.
• Careers: Blogs - useful for work placements for careers for feedback; students work collaboratively on a project = good experience to use in workplace later.
• Wikis = useful for LIS procedures. Work collaboratively and teach us how to use wikis.
• Use web 2.0 for students off-campus: e.g. Wiki on BB: use for FAQs, record answers to emailed questions. Can also use for peer support.
• Careers: investigating incorporating tagging into a traditional database indexed system.
• 1st year students may already use web 2 tools for social purposes but may not understand implications for academic use.
• LIS Tekkies already use wikis for procedures.
• Uni of Glamorgan LIS blog: http://lrc.weblog.glam.ac.uk/ Advantages vs our news feature: RSS feed, better archiving, allow comments etc.
• Wikis: could be used for academic liaison. Collaborate with academics to post up resources: consequently learn more ideas on their interests and research.

• Need to identify a need or problem that needs solving rather than focussing on the specific technology. e.g Uni of Newport: providing web 2 services but just provide a space rather than calling it blogs & Wikis.
• Issue of using different software: would we lose “corporate identity” and standards? Marketing aspect vs. teaching / learning. In BB all courses can look very different cf University website.
• All should try to use and learn about these tools within own job so that can spread knowledge to users: good for collaboration, knowledge management. Distinguish social vs work-related use of tools?
• Is a central place needed to list all web 2 tools being used within the university? How do we let people know what we are doing and do we want them to know?
• Copyright: assumption that material has already been cleared by the submitter, placing the responsibility on them.
• In work context, need for departmental agreement on tools and standardized platforms.

• Web 2 = “all the work we currently do with more work on top”? e.g. putting papers in an institutional repository: do we let academics do it, do we wish to monitor it?
• Should not try to manipulate / manage how people use web 2: let them use resources how they want, just provide advice.
• Do librarians do it better? Can the 2 co-exist? What is the need for professional support?
• Many nationalities, learning styles etc. within university. Not all students are digital natives. Also conceptual skills.

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