This document summarizes several research tools that can be used to organize and share resources with students. It discusses RSS feeds, social bookmarking tools like Delicious, citation managers like Zotero, and screen capturing tools like Jing. For each tool, it provides a brief overview of how it works and examples of how it could be used in a library setting. It encourages the reader to think about how these tools may help them in their work and to discuss their ideas with a partner.

1. 2.0 Research Toolbox: Tools for organizing & sharing resources with students Memo Cordova Ellie Dworak (Kim Leeder) Sara Seely

2. RSS: don't bother Memo Cordova Boise State University Albertsons Library

3. RealSimple Syndication

4. RSS: don't bother

5. RSS: don't bother Don’t bother

6. Aggregators News readers Readers

9. http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/01/11/this-is-relevant-to-my-interests-2/

10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU

15. http://flickr.com/photos/jorr81/3273241797/

17. Google Reader in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSPZ2Uu_X3Y

18. Avoid most adverts Take it with you No $$? No problem! Target & exploit Content is king, but you RULE

19. Join me! Together we can rule the web!

20. Partner up Introduce yourself How are you using this? How could you use this?

21. Del.icio.us social bookmarking Ellie Dworak

28. So what can I do with this? (besides find neat links) (more to the point, what can my library do with this?)

29. ideas for using del.icio.us in libraries Organize bookmarks on a topic Create a list of popular books Create lists that increase discovery Create a tag cloud for your website Generate and maintain subject guides

36. What do you think about delicious?

37. Can you imagine using it for your library?

39. Overload! Are you & your patrons overwhelmed by how to organize and cite sources? Librarians College students High school students Independent researchers Etc.!

40. It’s manageable Don’t panic! You can manage references using special (free) online citation management software.

41. Zotero to the rescue!

42. Save & archive Saves copies of articles and web pages to easily archive information. In many cases Zotero saves the full details of the item - including author, title, publication details - that will be needed to cite it later. These details may easily be edited for accuracy, or filled in where necessary. You’ll have an archived copy of the page in most cases, so no fears about broken links later! (Or fewer fears, anyway...)

44. Organize Drag-and-drop, iTunes-like interface allows easy organization of saved items in folders (collections).

45. Describe Add notes and/or tags to saved items. Zotero automatically assigns tags that it identifies from item metadata, such as library catalog subject headings. Notes can be any free-form text about an item.

46. Search Many search options make it easy to locate saved items later. Zotero searches all fields of an item, including full-text, unless otherwise directed.

47. Cite! Drag and drop items into Word, blogging windows, and other applications to easily create citations in the style you specify in “Preferences.” Or: export your entire library as a bibliography with additional plug-ins for MS Word and Open Office.

48. Considerations Catalogs, databases, etc., need to be compatible with Zotero to allow it to harvest full metadata (many already are, including ProQuest!). Must be downloaded and installed as a Firefox add-on. Does not always identify the permanent URL for an item; these must be added manually in some cases. No sharing options (yet).

49. Similar tool: BibMe

52. There are more tools like this BibSonomy, based on delicious but focused on sharing research links CiteULike Connotea, science oriented Mendeley Web And many more… see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software Choose the one you like best!

53. Welcome to citation Zen Thanks!

55. What do you think about Zotero?

56. Are you using a citation manager?

57. Would a citation manager help your patrons?

59. J Jing – How does it work?

60. Jing – How does it work? Visit the Jing website Download software & create account Equipment: microphone [Demonstration?] Sara R. Seely, CTL 2009

61. Jing - Considerations Jing logo (because it’s free) Requires flash to play No post-production editing May become pay-for Perpetual beta – updates a lot 5-minute time limit

62. Jing – alternatives ScreenToaster No download required Fireshot Firefox Add-on

63. Jing – Ways I’ve use it Show instead of tell E-mail Chat Websites

64. Jing How about you? Turn to your partner. Have you used screencasting tools? How? How might you use these tools in your work?

65. What else? What other tasks do you wish there were a tool for? Maybe there is!

66. A few more favorites Document sharing – docs.Google.com Online surveys – SurveyMonkey.com Scheduling meetings -- Doodle.com Space design – FloorPlanner.com Charts – Daytum.com Simple websites/blogs - Wordpress.org & Blogger.com Marketing - Picassa.google.com & Flickr.com (also for digitizing!) For collection development - Librarything.com

67. SEE YOU AT THE WIKI! http://tiny.cc/webfreebies

68. Memo Cordova Twitter: m3mo memocordova@boisestate.edu Ellie Dworak elliedworak@boisestate.edu Sara Seely saraseely@boisestate.edu