Reader’s Advisory on the Web: Resources, Case Studies, and Community Involvement

21st Century Literacies, Lowell Massachusetts

Steven M. Cohen - PubSub Concepts, Inc and Library Stuff

http://stevenmcohen.pbwiki.com/ReadersAdvisoryOnline

+ Shakespeare?

+ Have you ever wanted to be the world's fastest librarian?

+ About the article that inspired this presentation

+ The two way street

+ Wisdom of the Crowds and Collective Knowledge

+ Library Catalogs and collective knowledge - Will it fly?

+ Social Capital and library catalogs

+ The new Web

Resources

Web 1.0

+ If you like...

+ Readers' Cafe

+ Reader's Robot - Getting there...

+ Which Book

Web 2.0

+ What Should I Read Next

+ Library Thing

+ Chain Reading

+ Reader2

+ Delicious Library

+ Listal

+ bibliophil

+ Open World Cat

+ Glypho

+ Stuffopolis

My vision of Community-based Readers Advisory

+ Materials reviews from librarians AND patrons.

+ My catalog (http://www.netvibes.com) and sharing them.

+ Online book clubs (this book is being read by X group).

+ RSS Feeds galore

+ Ratings

+ Tagging

Libraries that incorporate online communities

Not that many!

+ Library OPAC Greatness in Denmark

+ Beyond the Typical Library OPAC

+ Taggytastic Library Catalogs

Pitfalls

+ Spam

+ Bias

+ Overload

+ Staff/IT time (but...)