Open Source Tools

Library 2.0 - Library Open Source and Social Software Tools

Overview

Overview: Blogs and wikis
ALIA - Australian Library Information Association - Incite
'Using wikis and blogs to communicate with library clients'
[http://www.alia.org.au/publishing/incite/2006/12/print.html?ID=138]

Overview: Range of Social Software tools
Library 2.0 Gillian Wood and Graham Spooner
[http://www.alia.org.au/groups/healthnat/hla.symposium/l20.spooner.ppt]

Quick Tips

Wikis
For example: Wikidot [http://www.wikidot.com]
Enables the quick and easy creation and editing of webpages with an unending ability to link pages together.
Control of the editing can be made with solely one person or a group of people with a common password, or open to anyone to edit
For example: Women's Studies Resource Centre reference wiki[http://wsrc.wikidot.com/start]

Blogs
For example: Wordpress [http://www.wordpress.com]
Enables quick creation of date inclusive, news-worthy or topical short articles.
Comments can be

Facebook -
Allows ongoing communication
For example: http://www.facebook.com/friends/?ref=tn#/pages/ALIA-New-Graduates-Group/311608470523

Open source library management systems

Koha [http://www.koha.org]
"in use in many libraries, museums, organisations world wide." [http://opensource.web2learning.net/]

Open source software used to create online areas for community collaboration - relational wiki
Kete [http://kete.net.nz/]
"Write topics and upload images, audio, video, documents, maps and discuss and link them together. It's been called a "relational wiki" and " a mashup between content management and knowledge management."

Another version is "Moodle"

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