Collaborative Tools for Libraries

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Collaborative Tools for Libraries

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Coming together is a beginning keeping together
is progress working together is success. -
Henry Ford It is the long history of humankind
(and animal kind, too) those who learned to
collaborate and improvise most effectively have
prevailed. - Charles Darwin
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Collaborative Tools for Libraries

• Definition of Collaboration
• At its most basic level, collaboration is when
  two or more people combine efforts to accomplish
  a task for their mutual benefit. It's more than
  just communication, which is the exchange of
  ideas and points of view.- http//money.howstuffw
  orks.com/online-collaboration.htm

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Collaborative Tools for Libraries

• Evolution of Collaborative Technology
• Face to Face meetings
• Letters
• Telephone
• Video Conference
• Internet (text, audio, video, document sharing)
• Portable smart devices (cell phones, tablets)

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Collaborative Tools for Libraries

• Online Collaboration
• Text (email, instant messaging, message boards)
• Audio / Video (video conference)
• Document sharing / editing

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Collaborative Tools for Libraries

• Hardware
• Telephone (cellphone, landline)
• Computer (webcam/microphone)
• Smart phones
• Tablet computers
• Highspeed Internet connection!

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Collaborative Tools for Libraries

• Limitations
• Older (slower) hardware / Outdated software
• Slow internet connection
• Incompatible devices
• Language
• Time
• Technical savvy

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Collaborative Tools for Libraries

• Some available online tools
• Google Drive (drive.google.com)
• eMeet.me (emeet.me)
• Skype (skype.com)
• Zoho (zoho.com)

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Collaborative Tools for Libraries

• Additional Resources
• List of Collaborative Tools Robin Good
• Project Glass GoogleEye demo video. Video
• Holographic meetings Video
• Wikis in plain english Commoncraft Video