Think Outside the Book!

This session wasn’t what I thought it was. I stayed and got some really good information.

King County Library System was there.

Study Zone- homework assistance for K-12 lasted 2 hours a day , run by volunteers, high school and college students and retirees

Virtual Services

Homework help through tutor.com 7 days/wk 2-10 pm they branded the service – had the presentation burned to DVD and distributed to schools/classrooms etc

4 minute presentation accessed via the internet

http://breeze.kcls.org/livehomeworkhelp2007 they used Adobe presenter

I don’t know what this cost but it sure makes a good presentation.

They turned posters into PDFs so teachers could print

They have a reference Wiki

Business cards for their virtual service for example the homework help had a business card.

Also provided screen shots for viewing to customers.

Library has a Welcome Back students event-

When Live Vs Virtual compete Virtual is the winner.

Sara Cofer of Worthington Library

This is where the session pulled me in.

Worthington Library has myspace, facebook, blogs, and podcasts available to their 62,604 borrowers- less than the number of borrower we have.

They do a circ of 2.7 million.

Meet users where they are

1. 93% use internet
2. 55% ages 12-17 use social networking
3. `55% have created online profiles
4. 49 % of teens read online blogs and journals
   

Blogwas Launched with Summer Reading Program- placed hot pink post its w/ blog info on books, audios, magazines etc

http://www.worthingtonlibraries.org/teen/blog/index.cfm Worthingteens Blog

Blog Fusion can have photos- it has actually become their teen site

Blog about

• Everyday stuff
• Used as outreach
• Services

Make the blog personal –talk about yourself- purple hair/going green for the environment

Experiment. Try. Fail. Try again. Repeat until you have success

Blog Rules

1. 1. Keep on topic
2. Respect (respect the space, respect others, respect yourself)
3. No profanity/ inappropriate language
4. Not commercial blogging
5. Reserve the right to edit
6. Registration required Must be 12-18 years old

Cluster Maps

Not commenting but they are looking

Jan 2008 -70,000 visits

Sharing Privacy & trust in a networked world

Ask teens what network site they use

Focus in on the blog you use Myspace to promote the blogs

Myscpace & Facebook- need a personal connection

RSS_ Blog updates which updates the Myspace which updates the Facebook

Throw Books at Teens

Hennepin Co Library – sends a text message for when author comes out with a new book
Think about cell phone as outreach

Other sites I want to check out

• Twitter
• MEBO
• Flickr accounts
• Wikis used internally first then expanded
• Delicious = social bookmarking

Pathfinders
Bibliographies
Etc