And as we are at the top of the hour I am going to introduce
our presenter for today.
Gary Price comes to us as the co-founder and editor of
library journal's InfoDocket.
Many of you I know think of Gary as a celebrity in library
land.
So we feel honored to have Gary here with us today for
today's session.
I will going to actually pass it on over to Gary and have
him get us started.
Welcome, Gary.
Thanks so much for being here.
>> Gary: Thank you, Jennifer.
And hello, everyone, from the opposite side of the country
from Jennifer.
Good afternoon from just outside of Washington, D.C.
Silver Spring, Maryland, to be exact, where I have lived in
the DC area for about 20 years.
A little bit more about me.
Before we going enI like to thank Jennifer and Kendra and
the WebJunction team for allowing me to do this Webinar
today.
They've been wonderful to work with.
I am a native of the Chicago area the north side, the
northern suburbs of Chicago very close to northwestern
University for those of you who are familiar with it in
Evansston.
I have and undergraduate degree in film studies from the
University of Kansas in Lawrence.
Go Jayhawks.
My masters of library information science degree is from
Wayne State University in Detroit.
As you heard in the run-up to our presentation today, I have
a lot of resources to share.
And some ideas about how you can use them.
Of course, going that next level and using them in what we
call an information service is, takes time and effort, and I
would suggest team work.
If that's something that's possible, you definitely will
leave this presentation with some new quality reference
resources.
I think just about everything I am speaking about today is
available on the open web, in other words, there's no charge
to access it and use it.
And I think that's something that's really important is for
those of us who have been doing this for a while, we used to
dream of the ability to get to some of these types of
resources.
Yet alone for free but the moment you this published and
made available.
That is possible.
The challenge is making the best use of them.
For many people, as you know as well as I do, if it doesn't
show up on those first five or six Google links it might as
well be invisible to them.
While there are many ways and we can do an entire Serges or
series of sessions on advance searching these tools, that's
something props for the information professional but it's
been my experience most end users don't use them or don't
have the interest in using them.
So we need to do a better job as a profession of bringing
out, of sharing the quality open web resources that are
available to them.
That are available to all of us, I should say.
So really what I'm getting at today is really nothing new.
We're talking really about the librarian is the curator if
you like, the collection builder.
But what is new, and I think this is really challenging, is
that this stream of material that's available, whether it be
text, whether it be video, we are getting into the world of
AR/VR.
The stream of material is both global as in multiple
language and it never ever stops.
So getting control of it is really what we're getting at
here.
And we will get to some tools that I use in the process of
doing InfoDocket every day.
And if you haven't visited, a personal invite to all of you
to visit InfoDocket.
It's a site that I started several years ago, well,
actually, 10 years ago, and before that I did another site.
It's really all about little comment and getting you quality
both news and resources.
So back to what is new.
This never ending stream of material.
And the fact, as I say here, this is both a blessing and a
curse that everyone is a publisher.
So the blessing is that everyone has the potential and the
ability to share their voice.
Of course, on the other hand, the quality of the information
is really the biggest issue.
Because anybody can say anything.
One of the biggest challenges and we are living in a world
where this is one of the most popular terms out there.
We are living in a world of misinformation and fake news.
This is a huge opportunity for us to be the curators of not
only what we will call traditional library resources, be
them both print and electronic.
But then making better use and curating some of the
high-quality open web materials that are available.
And we all know, again, I'm preaching to the choir here,
that people need help and guidance.
Whether it be discovering it, making the judgments on the
quality, that type of thing.
There's huge opportunities here for us.
And we also know many different groups of users are often
just, give me something and that's good enough.
And in some cases, that's fine.
But we live in a world where you can actually in many cases
go directly to that source or go to the website or resource
from a well-known and distinguished organization.
So with a little help, we can help service and bring these
resources directly to our users.
And again, preaching to the choir.
Our role is providing access to credible data and
information.
That's easier said than done.
Especially when it comes to the open web material because
it's all over the place.
It's never ending.
But it's something I think we need to do a better job at
striving for as we move forward.
And I look at librarianship -- and, again, this is really
not all that new of an idea.
If you go back in the literature and look in the '60s and
'70s, you will find the phrase selective dissemination of
information.
It's selectively sharing with what we are going to talk
about today, is an idea, is how Buck selectively share
material with members of your community.
Both individuals and groups.
That's more of what I would call a preemptive proactive form
of librarianship.
It's been traditional that in most cases people would come
to us with their questions and their information needs.
That obviously still needs to go on.
But over time, and if you can build you some relationship
building with members of your communities, you can start to
understand what they might be interested in or they can tell
you, and you can proactively share material with them before
they need to come and ask for it.
So that's what I'm talking about, the library is a
preemptive, proactive resource.
For individuals and groups in a community.
But the challenge is there's so much material and so little
time.
So one of our roles as I was getting at a moment ago is
showing people something they don't know.
If you are talking to a group, to a science teacher.
They very likely are clued in into a lot of the science
material.
Not all of it, of course.
But you would want to consider, what extra value, what are
the tangential things that are out there that I might be
able to share with them in a proactive manner?
Depending, for example, what type of science they're TVing.
What are related things that they might not normally see
that you can be sharing with them in many cases before they
ask for it.
Bringing like things together.
I used to, as I put together InfoDocket every day, I used to
be obsessed with being the first one to post something.
And luckily for me, I got off of that.
Because you drive yourself crazy.
There's no way, short of somebody saying, Gary, in my case,
Gary, we are going to be, give you something but we're not
going to tell anybody about it until X-time.
There's really no way of being first.
And in many cases that's all not that important.
That said, often, if you are proactively sharing people
material -- with people, being what I would call early in
the cycle adds a lot of value to what you are doing.
Because it's very likely they haven't seen it before.
And realizing that everything you would share with an
individual or group is not going to be of value.
Or something they're going to look at.
But over the course of a week or a month or six months, if
you can share five, six, 10 new things they haven't seen
before and are interested in, you've made a lot of friends.
I can guarantee you that.
So another thing that we could talk about is sharing
material not including in press reports.
Adding context, for example, to the news, to the topics of
the day.
This is something especially with the open web that's very
use -- very easy to do in most cases because very often, the
underlying documents, the reports, the added context in a
news story are often not shared in the article.
And going out and providing people that extra context can
add a lot of value to both your work and to what the library
is doing.
And I have a link there for you that we won't open but you
can.
That's a story, a report from project info literacy that
talks about how undergraduate students are looking for a lot
of context and background when they are reading the news.
Because often that is not provided.
And if you can provide that material just in time and at the
right place, you can be adding a lot of value to your, for
your users.
So what could you be doing?
Well, again, it's a time versus effort versus reward
situation.
What's possible?
You could be gathering all sorts of things and all sorts of
topics.
You could be going the extra mile, start adding metadata,
indexing it.
You could be writing original abstracts and taking the time
to share it.
But it really depends on resources.
Are you going to be doing this individually?
Are you going to start a service to reach out to the
community?
And you are the only one that's going to be doing it?
Well, how much time do you have to do it?
What value can you be adding?
Or is this going to be more of a library effort?
Are you going to form one library group throughout the
library or teams of people?
We are going to be working with this community group.
We are going to be working with another community group.
That's another issue you need to decide on.
But I can say this.
Sharing can be as simple, and I really think that simple is
the way to go here.
Especially from the beginning.
Sharing can be as simple and useful as a quick email to an
individual or a group with one, two, or three new resources,
maybe doing that once a week, once every two weeks.
I think over time, people will see that you are out there
proactively looking for them, trying to curate this
material.
And I feel confident in saying, over time, if you understand
their, what they're looking for, you will find things that
they haven't had the time or even the knowledge of where to
find it.
That's the type of material you could potentially share with
them.
One of the other things I like is, like to share with you
when I'm putting together deciding what to share on
InfoDocket versus what not to share.
For everything I post, I could be posting 15 more quality
things.
So one of the things I'm doing, one is using what I think
many of you might know is personas.
In other words, I'm look act people I know look at
InfoDocket and saying to myself, is this something Judy
might find something?
Is that something that Steven might find interesting and
then posting it.
One the other things I have been told over the years is that
one of of my jobs, in preparing InfoDocket, and perhaps one
of the ways to think about what you might want to consider
doing, is what could you be sharing that others can then go
out and share?
In other words, helping people in your community look good
in their community.
Knowing something beforors is not only useful for the
knowledge but often creates a good feeling amongst the user
and allows them to look good amongst those people that
they're working with and sharing with on a daily or weekly
basis.
So the library, the librarian as community information
disseminator.
Think about adding value to your community.
But when I say that, it's one thing to be doing these.
It's another thing to promote them.
This is what I'm getting at.
It's really about -- this is also-put me stop and put it
another way.
This is a great promotional vehicle and marketing tool for
your library.
So you could have a stand alone email service, a stand alone
newsletter.
However you might want to consider doing it.
Or you could build these resources into what you might
already be doing and target at different groups in the
community.
So along with your email that promotes upcoming
presentations at the library, new digital services, that
type of thing, you could also be adding in these resources.
Because I don't know about you, but I get a lot of emails
every day.
A lot of promotional emails.
It's the those promotional vehicles that I know I have seen
over time not only try to market or promote their service or
tools, but it's the one that's often adds some extra value.
For example, a new resource are the ones that over time I
begin to look at on a more regular basis.
So if nothing else, obviously we're in the business of
sharing quality -- knowledge from credible sources and that
type of thing.
But this is also sharing information in a proactive manner
is a great marketing tool for you as an individual
information professional, and for your library as a whole.
Helping people get their hand on all this open web material.
Now, this goes to the idea of, well, I've seen a lot of
newsletters over the years and stories in local papers
saying, you should come and use our library.
Well, that's great.
But my point here is, maybe you could consider demonstrating
what you and your library can do by sharing these types of
resources.
Sharing useful relevant material for community members.
It's not just saying to come and use the library but it's on
a regular basis, sharing and demonstrating.
That's really key.
Demonstrating your value.
And in this case, what you're curating, what you are
rounding up together, what you are rounding up, I should
say, are resources that will not cost you or the end user
any money.
And also, I will say in a moment, it's a way to also promote
and use, utilize the digital resources that your library
might be subscribing to.
So this all goes, the big picture here is that this idea is
a great way to build relationships with members of your
community, both individually and groups, and help your
library do word of mouth marketing.
Because I think we all know of a company that really was
built by word of mouth marketing.
We all know that word of mouth marketing is often the best
type of marketing you can get.
The company I'm thinking about is Google.
As many of you probably know, Google spent really no money
on traditional forms of advertising, if you like N. their
first 10 years.
It was getting to their communities, different communities,
creating a message for them and then reinforcing that
message with updates and new information.
In this case, in the early days of Google news services on a
very regular basis.
Really what we are getting at here is a way to proactively
do outreach to your community with material that they likely
haven't seen or won't even be able to discover in a timely
manner.
Remember, time is often what this is all about.
If you can save the people in your community time, effort,
and aggravation, you will be adding a lot of value to their
world and to, a lot of Goodwill and appreciation of you and
your library.
So we will take a break after this for some questions.
Who could you be be preemptively proactively sharing with?
I am just taking a few guesses here.
This list could be as literally endless.
So, for example, it's educators.
Can you set autopsy service for different educate, teacher
groups, individual teachers saying that I am covering this.
Can you pass on?
They might say, can you pass on to knee news or new
resources on whatever the topic might be?
Let me see something here.
Yeah.
Let me skip a slide and I will go back.
This is an example of something that teachers one specific
source.
Now we are going to get into sources for you.
This is a example of one specific source.
This is the government accountability office or the GAO.
They are doing research reports on just about every topic
under the sun.
And often, along with their findings, they are producing
wonderful useful graphics and visuals that are of huge value
often to educators, especially in the K-12 world.
So what you are seeing here is an example of a GAO report
that basically is a two-page briefing with wonderful 
graphics, explainer graphics, if you like, on the topic of
deep fakes.
So the government accountability office might be one place
that you could add a lot of value by monitoring these new
reports and perhaps you like fishing out, mining out some of
the graphics and passing them along to members of your
community and in this case, specifically, the K-12 group.
Obviously there's a lot of business data, especially these
days, the Chamber of Commerce.
Another source, this is one we will add.
Is one of the things that -- one resource that's been
formally available -- I think it's linked further on -- are
reports from the Congressional research service.
Again, like the GAO, they are researching every topic under
the sun.
And often these reports -- often they have business
information in them.
They have slides and graphs.
Excuse me.
Charts and graphs.
And they are the types of things that people in your
business community might be interested in.
For example, the GAO has -- I've been curating them, close
to 300 reports right now on COVID-related topics.
Often housed, a briefing directory, a report on COVID and
small base.
A briefing report on COVID and you name the topic.
There's one probably there.
And, again, we are using these reports because they are the
highest quality and from a reputable, respected research
organization.
Obviously, our authors, writers, and journal ises, they have
Rae variety of information needs.
And very often it's been my experience, especially with
journalists, that they have little awareness of what the
library offers.
Both in terms of open web, which we are trying to talk to
you about today.
But also the more traditional digital resources that your
library is very likely subscribing to.
Parents groups, there's all sorts of things for those types
of groups.
Restaurant owners, that's just one.
For example, right now, restaurant owners in your area might
be interested in how restaurant owners in other parts of the
country are dealing with the COVID topic.
How are they reopening?
Putting together a roundup of stories about how restaurants
throughout the country and really throughout the world are
opening up.
Would be something that could potentially be useful.
Obviously, government leaders.
Create a quick little email service, make friends with the
mayor.
People who sign the checks.
And ask them, what are they interested in both as the mayor
or member of the town council.
Something that they might be interested in both in that
sense or in their business life and prepare resources for
them.
Just send a quick, as I said, it can be simple as a quick
email.
And clergy.
They are talking about a variety of issues.
How are clergy dealing with COVID issues?
They might be looking for ideas for sermons.
These are the types of things that you could be passing
along by rounding up a lot of this open web material.
So, Jennifer, any questions for me?
>> Jen: There was an interesting question of clarification
towards the beginning asking, does curation equal selective
dissemination of information?
>> Gary: Good question.
In my view, the curation is bringing it altogether.
Then that is step one.
And step two would be to select the dissemination of it to
specific audiences.
That's my definition of it.
That's kind of how I think of it.
It's really a two-step process.
But, of course, I'm also curating material for myself, for
my own, quote-unquote, digital library.
Because as we will talk about later, one thing we have
learned the material that's on the open web today is
literally likely going to be different tomorrow it's a very
fluid situation.
So one thing I do just out of habit now is anything that I
think might be of interest to me in the future, I do my best
to make a copy of it and store it in one of several places.
>> Jen: Fantastic.
There's really great conversation and sharing going on in
chat.
When you were talking about different audiences, I thought
it was helpful, someone shared senior citizens.
>> Gary: Absolutely.
>> Jen: Job hunters.
Someone shared they are a science and law enforcement
librarian.
So definitely specific clientele there.
There was a great question about, can you talk a little bit
about getting relevant information to more marginalized
library users?
I know this is especially a concern with libraries closed,
not knowing how to get folks that maybe aren't connected to
the internet.
But do you have any thoughts about that?
>> Gary: There are tools out there.
I think there's one that comes to mind called library box
which allows things to be shared over a wi-fi network.
Stored locally.
Remember, a lot of these resources are -- not always.
I need to make that clear.
Not always government resources.
But you could be posting some of these individual documents
to a server that's hooked up to a service like library box
and allowing people to get to them via wi-fi.
Again, that's assuming that everybody has access to the
digital device.
The only other way that I could think about doing is by
actually printing some of these things out.
And I will say that in some cases, these documents are
available.
And most cases they are PDFs.
In some cases they are formally pointed and you can
ininquire who the data source is and see if they can send
copies of them to do it that way.
>> Jen: There are folks suggesting including that on local
bulletin boards or perhaps curbside pickup.
So great ideas being shared.
I think that folks are starting to suggest some of the other
things I know you are going to touch on.
So why don't we continue on and I will keep collecting
questions for our next check-in.
>> Gary: Right.
That was a fun half hour.
Now let's actually get in and talk about some specific
resources.
I need to again say that for every resource I'm mentioning
here, there are five, 10, 30 great other ones that I don't
have time to mention today.
Perhaps we can get to them in the future.
Feel free to drop me an email.
We can talk about them.
Make suggestions.
I am also looking forward to looking over the notes and to
the chat and learning some new resources from all of you.
So here's a small sample of the tools and resources I look
at every day.
Now, we lull live -- we all live in a world that's very
Google-specific, if you like.
For most people web search information retrieval resolves
around Google, doing news, going scholar and the like.
I want to point out today there are some other excellent,
and in case, for this example, news search tools out there.
And the two that I have linked for you here, and I know.
You online as you are listening to this presentation so feel
free to click on them and start checking for yourself.
EventRegistry is out of Slovenia.
It's many languages but the interface I have is English.
You can get a 30-month pass to the database for free.
They are really in the business of curating open web news
and selling it off, selling the links and the aggregation to
a variety of services.
EventRegistry is one of the best open web news search tools
out there and for an advanced searcher like many of you, on
the call today, there's an incredible amount of advance
search technology built into the product if you decide to
use it.
So for example if, these are static slides but you can see
you can limit by location, limit to specific sources and you
can actually for search the source list and limit that way.
There's AI going on, machine learning going on.
So everything has been automatically tagged with categories
that can help you narrow.
Limiting by month.
You can even under miscellaneous -- even as you can see
under miscellaneous filters you can remove some of the
duplicates.
I want might be the same story multiple times from, you
know, an AP or Reuters story.
They often works well.
Not 100% of the time.
But I would have to say that the powerful advanced news
search tool, EventRegistry, is one of the best that I have
seen.
The other one that I have listed that we won't go into but I
want to make a quick comment is called GDELT summary.
For though the of you who are developers or know developers,
GDELT is a free open web news search tool that if you can
program and do some work with API's, you can do advanced
things like you have never seen before.
This is Rae constant stream of news globally that you can do
all sorts of different things with.
There's sentiment analysis built into it.
There's images built into it.
What I want to point out one thing about GDELT summary.
Along with their news database, meaning text-based news from
global resources, they also make a searchable version of the
internet archives TV news archive in here that you can do
all sorts of things with.
So if you are looking to see how many times a word was used
on network television, or local stations throughout, or
network stations throughout the country, whether CNN, CNBC,
all sorts of different stations, this is another way of
using the internet archives TV news archive.
For those of you that don't know the TV news archive from
the IA is constantly recording television and making it
available to key word search using the closed-captioning.
The problem or the challenge, I should say, is that you can
only watch 30 seconds of video at a time.
Copy right reasons.
But, of course, I should say, too, there are fee-based
services out there that don't have this issue.
But if you are trying to when something was said on CNN or
MSNBC or fox or whatever, you can actually use this tool and
do a pretty good job of trying to find it and then actually
watching the video of if that's necessary.
I also want to make an important point.
If somebody has been talking about these issues now for a
long time and talking to librarians like yourselves on these
topics, one thing I have learned while everybody has
subscription databases from proquest and others, they don't
use a lot of the technology that is built into these tools.
And one thing that almost all these tools have especially
the news and journal databases from these providers, is that
they have key word alert tools.
And this would be a great way, if you don't have the
resources to curate the open web, this is a great way to
make initial contact perhaps with people in your community,
to say we have X-database and now I will show acouple of
others.
But we have X-database, this isth news database, and I can
sit down with you for about 20 minutes, if not less, and you
could tell me some of the things you are interested in.
I can help you build up a search strategy or two and now,
you're taking advantage of a resource that your library is
already subscribing to.
You are using it a much more robust manner.
Now the alerts based on whatever those topics are that the
person is interested in, your hands are off until they ask
you to tweak the search or create a new one.
Now using the alert features built in to the different
databases you are licensing, are a great way to make some
contact and also provide a valuable service.
And take full advantage, full advantage of the databases
that you are actually subscribe go to, AKA, paying money
for.
So that's EventRegistry.
I urge you to take a look at G-dealt which is -- one more
comment.
GDELT summary is what I am giving youing a sex to.
You can get access to all the documentation and start doing
incredible things with the AP I's.
GDELT summary began at the University of Illinois.
And now the person who runs it here in the D.C. area
receives funding from a company that you know called Google.
Again, it's not Google news search.
Not even close to it.
So again here's EventRegistry.
Some more tools.
Reports from think tanks and governments.
Really a wonderful resource here.
I am not going to -- I am going to mention these but I don't
have screen slides for all of them, nor do we have the time.
If you can to click on that, that is yearly report that
comes out from the University of Pennsylvania.
Often we as information professionals might need a little
clue on where to start looking.
So this report gathers think tanks from around the world,
puts them into different categories, ranks them and often is
a great place to start looking for that type of material.
Are the now many think tanks make a huge amount of material
available on the open web for free.
Something as simple as a PDF report.
Expert sources, the Congressional research service and the
EU.
Let me say this.
Along with the Congressional research service, which comes
from actually is based at the library of Congress here in
Washington.
There are similar organizations from around the world.
So there's the European Parliament research service, the
Canadian Parliament library, the Australia and the U.K.
house of commons research library.
And they are all producing reports on a variety of different
topics.
So right now when it comes to COVID it's not only
interesting to look at what the CRS is saying, Congressional
research service, but it's also interesting to perhaps get a
different perspective on that same issue if a report is
available from the EU or from the U.K.
So Congressional research service reports and others are
expert sources from different countries.
One place I also like to look is the U.S. census bureau.
Now, they are coming out with reports left and right.
So the link there for you will take to you a report and a
simple email, you can get it via email or click on it.
It will tell you what are the new reports?
What are the new pieces of data that they are coming out
with in the next couple of weeks?
So it's a way to be ready for something when it originally
becomes available which is always a good thing to add value
to your service.
You can't do it all the time.
You probably can only do it every now and then.
But as I said earlier, being early is often a great way to
sell people on what you are trying to do.
The next resource is video.
That's something else you could be doing and I try to do
more and more.
Is share video.
The world of YouTube and the like are really not well
curated.
So I have given you a link there to explain to you how you
can set up an alert with YouTube that every time a channel,
so in it might be the library of Congress channel, for
example, every time they upload a new video, you can be
alerted to it within hours of the time it's posted.
They will alert you via email.
You can also in some cases, if they are saying, for example,
that the library of Congress or another organization is
going to be holding a live Webinar stream, you can often
find out about that days before it's going to happen.
Because you will also receive an alert.
The American archive of public broadcasting comes also from
the Library of Congress.
They're working with PBS and NPR around the country and they
are making an incredible amount of video, both new and old,
searchable.
One of my favorite collections in the American archive of
public broadcasting is the Mckneel Lehrer, the PBS News
hour.
You can go back to show one, year one, and be able to view
it and in many cases you can find the material because
transcripts are also available.
And then what I have, the other one I have linked for you
and I have a screen shot here, this is the C-span video
library.
If I could only have, assuming I was stuck on a desert
island and if it had wi-fi, and you are laughing because why
would I be stuck on a desert island?
This is one of my all-time favorite databases.
They don't have the resources to promote it like they 
should.
I think we should be working a lot closer with the C-span
video library.
In a nutshell as you can see on that slide, as of a couple
days ago when we made this slide shot, they had almost
253,000 hours of video available.
Basically anything that has ever aired on C-span can be 
viewed mere so it's not only, perhaps a classic hearing or
the debate on the floor of the House or the Senate.
There's all the other extra programming they do.  It might
be a lecture of the national archives they reported.
It might be a lecture at a bookstore in New York City or Los
Angeles they recorded.
It's every book note.
Every one of those author interviews I are in here.
What's even more amazing about it is that it is key word
searchable.
Not only can you search the metadata for the programs.
But you can also key word search the transcripts for most of
those 252,000.
If they say WebJunction OCLC, at a video that's in the
library, you can find it by key word searching for it.
Another great feature in terms of sharing material from the
C-span library is this.
You can sign up for a free C-span account.
And then below just every video you will see these two
little, something that looks like a pair of scissors.
You can click that and you can create your own custom clip
of the video.
In other words, if it's a four-hour presentation, and you
only want to share with somebody between three minutes and
21 seconds and 12 minutes and two seconds, you can simply
move the Levers to the beginning and to the end of what you
want to share.
Click it.
And now you will have a direct link to a clip of that
specific video.
Again, everything there the C-span library is free.
It is -- oh, I should also mention finally it is updated in
near real time.
So if there's a hearing going on at 1:00, and you want to be
able to start sharing from it, usually by 1:30 or 2:00 or
3:00 it very likely will be available to start using via the
C-span video library.
>> Jen: I am going to jump in really quick.
Since we have got 20 minutes.
Do a little time marker.
There were a couple good questions.
When you were talking about the think tank index reports,
somebody asked if the, do those differentiate between
conservative, Libertarian, et cetera?
Is there some sort of indicator?
>> Gary: I don't know if they do it on those.
These are, again, this is global in scope.
I can't answer that question specifically.
>> Jen: OK.
>> Gary: So I can't answer that.
>> Jen: All right.
The other one, somebody asked, does Gary have preferred
sources for fact checking websites?
>> Gary: That's in a -- that's a presentation unto itself.
One of the things, politico fact, "Washington Post," those
types of things.
I really want to make this point.
Again, I know I'm preaching to the Kai.
When I was younger and I used to dream about being able to
get access to some of these things, well, they're here.
I don't think we do a good job of doing it.
I will add a side here.
For a great site that's not on the list.
Let me write this down and I will add it.
Documentcloud.
Documentcloud is a service where newspapers and journalists
specifically can become members.
You could become a member yourself if you like.
And they are sharing primary documents.
So it might be something that's covered in my local paper,
"The Washington Post," but it might be a document or report
from here in Montgomery County, Maryland, or Fairfax Kevin
Durant County.
It very likely has been uploaded to the documentcloud.
A lot of news organizations host embreaded -- embedded

documents from documentcloud.
It's a great source to find the actual document.
I am a politico fact guy.
We could do eastern presentation on that.
I love going to the actual source document and making our
own decisions.  That's something you can do that five or 10
years ago, 15 years after go was muff more difficult to do.
The second that report comes out, Urlacher tumly go do it.
It's those noncontroversial reports that you could be
sharing with people as well.
Anything else, Jen?
>> Jen: No.
Are you saying Politifact or you said -- what was --
>> Gary: Politifact.
Again, I'm also a, I was listening to an interview with one
of the beneficiary post fact checkers last night.
They do a great job.
It is my local newspaper.
So --
>> Jen: We're good.
Let's keep going.
>> Gary: Now, another one of my most favorite sources.
And I think one of the most important things that regardless
if you do a service like we are we're talking about today,
if you are not aware of it already, I think you will leave
very happy.
And that is, well, the WayBackMachine.
You all know about the WayBackMachine.
We're not going to talk about that.
But if you click the link that I have put up here, you can
actually, you can now actually index anything on demand.
That's right.
You can create your own version of record by simply 
submitting the URL into the box that you would see on save
page now.
It's free.
And it's instantaneous.
And not only then will you know that the document that you
saw at 3:44 eastern time on May 27th, you know that what
you saw at that moment will be available forever in the
WayBackMachine.
This is a free service that's not often discussed.
It also not only works with HTML web pages but also with
PDFs and XLX files.
You can have your own copy in the WayBackMachine.
And by the way, you are not only having your own copy in the
WayBackMachine.
But you are also making the WayBackMachine much more robust
for the entire community of users.
We all know that while documents can disPAP and they're
doing a lot of that these days, it's also even easier to
change the document.
To remove a piece of information or to change it.
So that's why not only does the document need to be in the
WayBackMachine one time, to get it started, but it needs to
be reindexed and rearchived on a regular basis.
And that's what's so great about the WayBackMachine's save
page now feature.
But wait, there's more.
If you register and I am sure many of you already have
internet archive accounts, when you log into save page now,
up get additional options.
And one of those options, and this is relatively new with
save page now.
It will not only index the, or 65, the page, the URL that
you are submitting but at the same moment, it will look for
all the outbound links on that page or even in some cases in
that PDF and go out and archive all of those at the same
time, all with one click.
So this unto itself is an incredible resource.
And something that's very important.
Because I am really worried over the course of time that
there's so much being put on the web about COVID-19, and I
am wondering how much of it over the long run is going to be
archived.
Obviously, and rearchived.
Obviously sites like the CDC and the state websites, all
that are going to be archived.
All of this local stuff that the web crawler has trouble
finding in the first place.
That's why one of my, you know, community projects is now
basically a lot of the time is I'm going through things from
InfoDocket every day and finding new reports and the like.
I put them aside.
I make a quick copy.
Paste it on to a sheet.
And then at the end of day I will submit all those URLs to
the way back machine.
It's my community project.
I think -- I am really proud of it.
Everything I link to on InfoDocket, and a lot more, is
archived at the time of discovery in the WayBackMachine.
So not only are you making it a useful resource for
everybody, but you are also covering yourself in case
somebody says, it doesn't say that now.
And we could talk about this at another time.
But I really believe that in the future, our community needs
to be interfacing with the education community and those
organizations that set standards for citations like MLA and
APA.
And make sure to try to change the citation standards.
That being when somebody sites something from the open web
and puts it into a bibly off groggy.
There's one to the actual document and one to the link, a
link to that self archived in the WayBackMachine, or another
web archive.
So if somebody goes back six months later and it doesn't say
that, or that document is gone, somebody can easily get to
it.
That's something I'm trying to work on as we move forward.
Oh!
And one other thing.
And I will add this to the page.
I just learned about this in recent weeks.
In addition to what I just showed you in being able to copy
and paste URL into the save page now box, usual now do it
via email.
That's right.
You can just simply send the URLs to a specific email
address and we'll add this to the slides and to the guide.
And you can do it all via email.
As a matter of fact, if you put a specific phrase in the
subject line, it will not only archive those URLs but will
do the outbound linking, archiving that I talked about a
moment ago.
All of this is free from Bruceer and Mark and the teams at
the internet archive.
That's just an example of why it's important.
Obviously, it's fun to share this with 9 Webjunction team.
They can take a look at what the Webjunction site looks
like.
If you were doing research on organizations in the library
community and how they developed over time and their web
presence is developed.
It's really important that we are archiving a lot of this.
Just as we have learned or should have learned from the
early days of television, a lot of material can easily
disappear and we could not have a complete report.
And creating a complete record in my view is a key concept
in librarianship that to this point is now getting more
attention but is often overlooked.
So quickly how to disseminate and share.
We've talked about keeping it simple.
That's why you can create all, buy newsletter templates.
You can buy all sorts of different services.
Obviously you can use social media.
But over the time that I have a been doing these types of
things, I have learned, sharing with somebody, and I do this
all the time, all day.
When I find something that for example that a librarian
friend might find of interest, I correspond a lot with the
librarians in a couple of news organizations.
I could be tweeting these things and putting them elsewhere
but the easiest way to get it in front of somebody and have
it last is by email.
A quick email saying, have you seen this?
It might be of interest.
If you have a relationship with the person, just sending the
quick email with the URL.
You are doing everybody a great favor and I think you are
adding a lot of good feeling about what you do and the
library and you are proving your value and you are
demonstrating your value.
Obviously we all know that social media is another option.
Everything I post on InfoDocket is automatically tweeted.
The problem, the challenge I should say with social media is
that the half life of a tweet or a Facebook post is often a
few minutes.
And then it just gets, people don't scroll down that far.
Of course, I will say that the one thing I have also learned
is if you are tweeting these types of things, and you want
to get it out to a larger audience you need to tweet
whatever that item is multiple times.
Because as we all know, we are all guilty of it, we don't
scroll that far down as we are going through tweets.
And it's very easy depending on how many you are following,
to not have time to go past 100, 200 F. that many.
Again, I believe that while newsletters and all sorts of
things are important and potentially useful, something as
simple as an email list or just a direct email to a person
is doing a great service.
Tools to consider.
What I use.
One important thing, too, that I want to share with you is
that I don't have expertise on a lot of different topics.
One of the tools that I use, I mention think tanks earlier.
One of the other things that I use are a lot of trade public
play Li indications and also letting other, letting our
colleagues help me find new resources.
So the example that I've given you here is from an
organization within a few miles of where I'm sitting right
now.
The national Library of Medicine.
Every day in their disaster lith resource they are adding
resource.
Every day I get a feed of all of the new reports and videos
they've added.
Again, I'm using this as just an example.
You can find similar types of services all over the place.
So I'm letting the experts in these types of topics,
medical, in this case, COVID-19 topics and the like, I am
letting the experts librarians at the national Library
of Medicine help me make my selections.
And then I can actually count on it.
I know I'm looking at quality stuff.
Putting it all in one place.
Very, very important.
And all of you are likely familiar with the term research
management tools.
The one that I use is called Zotero.
Why?
I've been using it for years.
And I also love supporting, when the product is great,
things from the higher evidence and the library community.
Zotero comes from a university, probably 10 miles, 15 miles
from where I am sitting, George mace University.
It's a research management tool.
I do some consulting for a couple of library organizations.
And as I am doing their curations, I am putting the material
into various Zotero folders.
Another great thing about Zotero, not only that it's free,
but everything that I share that I put into my local Zotero,
whether it be a web page, an HTML web page, or a PDF, all
that material becomes key word searchable.
In addition to having a way to share things and organize
things, I could edit my own metadata.
It makes everything I am interested in available in one
place and key word searchable.
And as I said Zotero, you can do an entire semester on
Zotero on all the features.
A way to share both, keep things organized for yourself but
also share it in groups, and maybe even disseminate things,
I would encourage you to look at Zotero.
The other service that probably the most well known that's a
free service called MENDALAY.
AnyoneOreader is my dashboard.
It allows me in one place to put in all of my RSS feeds, my
Facebook posts that I'm interested in, tweets, allows me to
search all of it.
This is one of the few fee-based tools that I am mentioning
today but it has really been a game changer.
You can set up all sorts of alerts.
You can say, send me an email if this particular RSS feed
includes these particular words.
It's that granular.
RSS.APP is a wonderful service that allows me to create RSS
feeds for site that is don't have them.
For example, if a news site that I am interested in or an
organization site doesn't have an RSS feed, often using
RSS.APP will allow me to create one and I can add it into
the aggregator.
Website watcher, by far this is the go-to tool.
You could do again, if you wanted to go out and do a session
in your community about how teaching individual members of
your community or groups how to stay current on any topic,
this is a fee-based service that comes out of Austria.
It's a one-man development shop.
And this basically will act as your own web crawler.
That's Zotero.
I'll go back here.
So website watcher basically will act as your own crawler.
You can see, it will even work with pay-walled sites.
On this particular page, notify me if something new or
something on the page is changed.
That way you can go through thousands of pages or hundreds
of pages at any time frame you like.
Whether it be once an hour, once every minute.
And it will detect the changes on those pages.
So the example that I often use is this.
If you are tracking people, and on the page of person el for
an organization it says Jennifer is in charge of trips to
the airport, clam chowder, maiming clam chowder and
otherwise good cheer in the office, and that says that on
Monday.
On Tuesday, Jennifer gets relieved of her clam chowder
duties and goes to somebody else.
Well, there's no way you could detect it unless you had a
photographic memory or a constantly reloading the page.
Website watcher will, can alert you to something that small.
And often is the small things on the pages that can add a
human amount of value that are not going to be reported in
the news and you can learn first.
The example that I learned years ago I shared this with a
friend of mine who was a laborrian at that time at
Bloomberg, she was able to convince Bloomberg to bian
enterprise site for website watcher.
Every reporter had access.
For the reporter covering very esoteric material at the IRS,
there's no way they could be on everything they were putting
online.
This tool would alert them to new uploads and highlight on
the page what was new and very often they would find out
about something new, they would call the IRS, their contact,
and the person would say, how do you know about this
already?
So website watcher, maybe we could do another session on
that in the future.
But if you are looking for a really wonderful tool, it's
about $80 a year.
I highly recommend taking a look at website watcher for
current awareness work.
And then finally, OneTab.
This is a little productivity tool that I couldn't live
without.
Over the course of a day or a couple of hours or my case a
few minutes, you can have all sorts of tabs opened up.
So when you have, if you can see on the top of this screen
shot here I have all of these tabs open.
I download one tab that's available for all browsers.
Five fox, chrome, others.
And with one click, it will take all of those tabs, and
organize them into a page like this.
Then from this page, I can reopen things as needed.
I have a record of it with the time stamp.
And get this, folks, along with having the list, say you
wanted to share a list of links with people.
You can share all of your lists of links as a web page.
So it's a great tool to keep yourself organized on your
computer.
It's also very useful if you want to share a group of links
with people, whatever the topic might be.
It's 3:59 eastern.
Do we have time for maybe a quick question?
>> Jen: The people have been so great about continuing to
share resources and ideas.
So, no know that we will add all of those to the event page.
And we will also send you an email once the recording is
available.
Gary, does OneTab cost anything?
>> Gary: No.
It is free.
>> Jen: Excellent.
And I know peep were talking about some RSS truckers and I
don't know if -- I don't know if you use dig-O.
>> Gary: Let me toss out another tool for RSS.
A service I use quite a bit, IFTTT.
There's others might call it, or I call it mashup for
dummies.
I don't have any programming skills.
I wish I did and I will learn some one day.
But IFTTT allow Meese to take all of my RSS feedsst or
one, go to a specific email act account.
Now I have a permanent record of those feeds.
If it comes into my G mail, all those feeds are also key
word searchable.
IFTTT works on hundreds of different sites.
You can do all sorts of mashups with very little, with no
policemanning skills.
>> Jen: Fantastic.
Gary, thank you so much.
I know that we could go on for days and talk to you.
So we look forward to continuing that conversation.
I am going to have you move to the next slide.
A reminder that Gary has invited you to connect with him and
I know that he will be thrilled to give you additional
ideas.
And hear about your favorite resources.
So definitely do so.
If you are not yet following or subscribe to InfoDocket,
make sure that you are leveraging all of his great work in
every day.
There's multiple, multiple resources that Gary is surfacing,
related to your important work.
So thank you so much, Gary.
>> Gary: Thank you, Jennifer.
>> Jen: We will follow up with all of you once the recording
is available.
I will send you all an email.
I will also send you all a certificate for attending today
within the week.
So you don't need to ask for that.
I am going to automatically do that.
And I am also going to send you to a short survey as you
leave here.
We really appreciate your feedback.
We'll share it with Gary and it also helps us guide our
ongoing programming decisions.
So thank you for taking the time to do that.
And everyone, have a fantastic rest of your week and thank
you so much, again, to Carol for being here from
LNS Captioning providing our live captions today.
Thank you again, Gary.