Sarah, thanks so much for this real-life example, ...

2009-06-04T17:40:05.032+12:00

Sarah, thanks so much for this real-life example, very helpful contribution towards the presentation. Your study's also of personal interest to me, being an ex-Otago student myself!
Karin

Hi Penny and Karin, While I'm a librarian by prof...

2009-06-04T16:56:03.239+12:00

Hi Penny and Karin,

While I'm a librarian by profession and training and I do use web 2.0 in my workplace, my comments here refer specifically to my "citizen-created content".

While studying toward my MLIS I took the History of Print Culture in NZ paper. One the assignments was to create an exhibition pitch concentration an aspect of print culture. My group decided to work on named student flats in Dunedin (where I was based). That was in 2000.

I've continued to photograph these flats since then. The initial photos were taken on 35mm film, but since 2005 they have been taken digitally. I believe it's worth recording and preserving these flat names because they are an expression of student identity. No other university in NZ has an environment quite like Otago.

In 2007 I set up Flickr and Facebook groups to share, record and preserve this sometimes ephemeral, sometimes enduring aspect of student culture in Dunedin. To date there are 636 members of the FB group, many of whom have contributes stories, tagged photos with their names and added photos of their own. It's marvelous. What started as an assignment has become a digital archive of sorts. This in turn has prompted an invitation from OUSA to exhibit the photos at Art Week this year and the project will hopefully become a hard copy book some time in the near future - see flatnames.tumblr.com. It could never have happened without web 2.0.

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Sarah, thanks so much for this real-life example, ...

Hi Penny and Karin, While I'm a librarian by prof...