Pete Stanwood--Contribution Statement

I would like to reinforce the previous posts regarding the harmonious functioning of our group. It was very smooth--lots of good ideas thrown around, and a willingness to offer supportive and constructive suggestions. No ego clashes, and everyone seemed to find a way to participate that was comfortable for them. I have no complaints about our group.
As far as my own contributions, I:
--acted as Secretary, taking notes on meetings and posting them to the blog as needed.
--set up all Elluminate meetings.
--contributed to the blog.
--posted content to the deviantART site.
--attended all meetings.
--wrote and presented my own brief portion of the material.

A very positive experience overall.

individual responsibilities Jamie Kurumaji

As a group, I feel that working together as the Deviant Librarians was very successful. As a group everyone was very active. There was really no need for delegating specific tasks to individuals because if something needed to be done, there was no reluctance or delay. Meeting with a group for projects can be problematic, but we were able to easily find meeting times with one another for this assignment. This was a great experience working with my classmates.

In terms of individual responsibilities, this is what I contributed to the group:

• researched how other libraries have utilized social networking tools
• researched how we as a non-officially affiliation of the SF Public Library could utilize DeviantART, in terms of creating an online presence
  
• participated in our group activities: email, elluminate, blog

Responsibility Statement by Anissa Malady

The Deviant Librarians group worked very well together. It is actually very hard for me to determine and break down exactly what I did individually, besides research my specific section of the DeviantART site. I am not saying this in way that I only did this one thing, what I want to instill is that we worked so well together that the divvy and breaking down of tasks did not feel as such. Our group ran smooth, when task where up for grabs, or something needed to be done, no one hesitated to do them. All participants showed up, communicated and it was a great experience. The best group experience I have had in my entire higher education, which is quite a success, in my opinion, for the online learning environment.

My individual tasks

• Researched and documented the Specialized features of DeviantART site
• communicated with SFPL about the project
• put the idea out there to use DeviantART.com for our project
• participated in all group activity, in person, online and via email

Individual responsibilities statement Matthew Collins

Matthew Collins: Team Leader
SF Deviants (Deviant Librarians) researching deviantart.com
The SF Deviants met several times to develop our project. The first meeting, wherein our roles were defined and I was nominated Team leader, was a face to face meeting. Subsequent meetings occurred online via Elluminate. I discovered quickly that our group worked very well together collaborating and reaching consensus. As a team we: researched the deviantART site and its applications and developed methods for a Library, specifically San Francisco Public Library, to utilize deviantART. The traditional role of leader in the meetings was not needed, everyone stayed on task, did their assigned jobs and helped move things forward. We really had a great group and it was a pleasure working with all of the members. My role as leader became more important in compiling the final product for submission. The following list is the highlights of what I did as a member of the team.
• Arranged space for first meeting
• Signed up Deviant-Librarians for presence on deviantART (note: data submission and posting was collaborative)
• Researched Art creation/posting
• Researched methods of promoting library (SFPL) via the creation of art (note: other team members researched other methods)
• Researched the added value that deviantART could offer: tutorials and chat rooms
• Created and posted promotional images
• Created Power Point to be used both in presentation and as a backup for those who were utilizing application sharing
• Created and submitted “title page” with link to deviant librarians blog http://deviant-librarians.blogspot.com/ where or individual self assessments reside.

jamie's rough draft for presentation

Introduction:

DeviantART is an international online community for artists. Its main goals are to provide a site or place for any artist to exhibit and discuss his/her works. Artworks are structured into these various categories: photography, digital art, traditional art, literature, Flash, filmmaking, and skins for applications. Also included are downloadable resources such as tutorials and stock photography.

The DeviantART site has over 10 million members. It has over 75 million submissions and on average, it receives roughly 100,000 submissions per day.
Survey completed by Compete.com......36 million visitors annually, 2008.

Censuring mature content option

As a group, we created a persona that represents the SF public library, unofficially. Some of the various ways that we were able to establish the library's presence on DeviantART are.....
- devious info
- newest deviations
- favourites
- journal
I will mention these tools of the site only very briefly and will leave more detailed descriptions or usages for others.

There are many other optional tools that one could use on DeviantART, however many are only available if you choose to subscribe to DeviantART. This allows the user to more features that the site has to offer. Some of these extra features include: 120 deviations, browse ad free, access to archives, etc.....

matt's Rough draft

I’m Matthew Collins and I’m going to talk a little about the dual dynamic nature of a Library utilizing Deviant art as a way to reach a target audience.

· First drawing people to your library: promotion

· Second utilizing the site as a resource itself: added value

Deviant art.com is a young art interested audience

Annie has already mentioned a few of the ways to get the word out to the deviant artists about cool happenings sponsored by the San Francisco Public Library

Now to further draw this young art interested audience you need to highlight relevant library resources on the site.

You can do this two ways

· one in the journal feature already mentioned

· Or creating and posting art which draws attention to the resources

Photography books

Photography collections

The downside to these posted pieces, unlike the journal is that you cannot imbed links on an image however there is an artist’s comments section for each image where links are possible.

Highlighting cool or unexpected resources can show a different face of the Library and attract new patrons. However, the other cool side to utilizing deviant art.com is its added content.

There are a large number of tutorials on the site

Collections of tutorials

Examples

These can be used to Show current library patrons new avenues to explore

Connecting patrons together to exchange ideas

Chat room