Dick Kaser, VP Info Today (moderator)
1. Ken Breen, Director, eBook Products, EBSCO Publishing
NetLibrary
eBook in 1997. on CD-ROM. system requirements are a hoot (25Mz processor)!!
124 pg print book explained how to use the ebook.
In July, NetLibrary will be completely under EBSCO.
Purchase plans.
This tweet sums up the presentation. Vendor sales pitch.
2. Leslie Less, VP of Content Development, eBrary
another sales pitch. Walked out after it was over and switched to Community Tagging.
(Overdrive rep was on the panel later; tweets from the session on his time looked interesting)
Overdrive Tweet 1 Overdrive Tweet 2 Overdrive Tweet 3
Community Tagging session.
SOPAC at Darien Library
Tagging Solves an Access Need.
Student Assignment assisted through tagging. Beats searching and gets hundreds of results
Staff Participation. Guide the students (and teachers)Â to the tag.
“Meet us on main street” book talks on the street. Then staff tag what they talked about so it’s easily findable.
“User Generated Tags” Go from longform handwriting book lists (or initials in books?? — it happens!) to lists and tags in different ways.
Working with users to promote tagging
Kids and tagging:
- tagging what they want to read and what they have read using this in conjunction with summer reading
- kids feel empowered by using the tagging and contributing
Inappropriate tagging question: Gretchen hasn’t seen bad tagging ever (and systems that allow tagging, can be moderated).
Bad reviews allowed: Gives patron buy-in; many of the bad reviews are hilarious (especially from kids). [Comment: these do give you feedback on your collection.]
What about adults tagging at Darien? Some users in the community are engaging, especially comments and reviews.
[The tagging session gave me some food for thought to bring back to NEKLS for NExpress as we try to get more use out of the tagging features in our Koha system (OPAC here).]