Open Libraries Episode 1

Podcast

by Jay Datema, netConnect -- netConnect, 10/15/2006

Listen to the first episode in our Open Libraries podcast series hosted by LJ's technology editor Jay Datema. Datema talks to several of the authors of the Fall netConnect supplement, Libraries 2010, which focuses on how we get to Library 2.0.

The podcast features Karen Coombs, head of web services at the University of Houston Libraries; Melissa Rethlefsen, an education technology librarian at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, and Dorothea Salo, digital repository librarian at George Mason University.

Listen now and tell us what you think below.

Podcast Timeline:

0 Intro
2:45 Dorothea Salo on Zotero
4:23 Social Software="Group Projects"
5:38 Karen Coombs on Writely
7:00 Melissa Rethlefsen on Mayo
8:43 Karen on Project Management
12:40 Dorothea on repositories
16:40 Melissa on open access
18:20 Dorothea on open access monoliths
20:20 Melissa on society publishers
22:21 Karen on Texas Digital Library project
25:19 ARL Spec Kit on Institutional Repositories
26:34 MARS is 2
27:00 Karen on early adopters
27:50 DSpace Hacks
28:26 Open source projects and plugins
33:13 CVS for DSpace
34:25 Karen on wikis, blogs, and production
36:45 Melissa on Mayo’s Live Journal project
41:23 Evangelizing your project
44:00 The freedom to fail
44:40 Library School
45:43 Recommended books and software
49:11 Long Tail and Recommendation of Crowds
51:34 Eclipse
52:37 Open Access and Terry Prachett
54:08 Upcoming conference presentations
57:22 Five Weeks to a Social Library