David Lee King

David Lee King is a librarian in the States, at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library. He has a blog here where " I create, write, think, and speak about library websites and emerging digital technology."

Here are a few interesting sites his blog has pointed me to.

Twtter Explained for Librarians, or 10 ways to use Twitter

The above post has drawn many comments. He looks at what Twitter might be useful for libraries, and sees it as an emerging social tool that he wants to watch.

Here's a PDF keynote presentation (71 slides) from David, at the Salt Lake City Public Library Staff Day. He talks about library 2.0, and how libraries can use some of the 2.0 tools and sites.

One thing he refers to is this:
What if Barbie had a book group? This is an interesting idea for a book review, on YouTube. The review comes from the Topeka and Shawnee Public libraries, on their blog, Papercuts.

See his blogpost here for further links and another presentation from that day.

In this presentation, David concentrates on

1. blogs, explaining term and showing some library blogs
2. social networking sites and what you can do with them in a library
   - including flickr, YouTube, last.com, MySpace, LibraryThing, twitter
   
3. Bookmark managers, and what you can do with them - del.icio.us, furl. blinklist, (don't know the last two)
4. wikis, with examples, and what you can do with them
5. Internet Messaging, including meebo, and what you can do with them. David has also blogged about using meebo as a link from an unsuccessful catalogue search - the patron is offered a real librarian to talk to via IM about their enquiry
6. podcasting or videocasting, with great examples, eg of booktalks, (this is where the barbie review comes in)
7. and Amazon v OPACs, with some examples of OPACs moving more towards Amazon.

Lots to learn about here !