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

Rough Draft of Pete's Spoken Presentation

OK, hello everyone, my interest in using deviantART focused mainly on the Literature aspect of the site. The main focus of deviantART, in fact, is on the visual arts component, but I felt there were a lot of rich opportunities for interaction in the area that concentrates on the written word.
Here are a few screen shots from this section of deviantART. Each of the boxes, with text, represents a written work, and as I flip through these screen shots, you can see that there are quite a few categories to which writers can assign their work.
Most of this writing, as I experienced it, seemed to be done by young people. It was highly emotional and romanticized; it was also sweet and innocent in spite of a put-on air of world-weary cynicism. I remember writing stuff like this in high school...
But the important thing is that there is a lot of interest and a lot of passion around this site, and people are just into doing this writing and sharing it with others. That high interest seems like a great jumping-off point for looking at ways that libraries can tap into the young writers' passions, and to interact with users of the site. It's also a way to introduce interested library patrons to what deviantART might offer to them.
I think the site has quite a lot of potential for bringing library users together with writers. So, the question is how to use the deviantART site to build interest in writing among library patrons--how do we get one group to interact with the other?
Some ideas might include:
1. Establishing a physical space in the library that would focus on the potential of deviantART. A small learning center-type area with some computers, and lots of
examples of the kinds of (hopefully inspiring) things one might find on the site.
2. Using the Tutorials section of dA to display some helpful video or other instructional material, such as ideas for creative or other writing, "tell me about yourself" type video
introductions, writers discussing their creative processes, etc.
3. Developing collaborative projects between Library user and dA users. There is a large
collection of film, video and animation work on the site. It's easy to imagine collabor-
ative work between writers and filmmakers who would be brought together by dA.
Also, collective writing exercises, zines, literary/poetry anthologies, workshops led
by more experienced writers, mentoring programs....these all seem like potentially
rich areas to explore.
4.Using the Journals feature of dA to keep people aware of writing-related events taking
place at SFPL.

Haven't quite put the conclusion part of this together. I wonder if we want to make it a collaborative effort?

Pete

Specialized Features of Deviant Art Site by Anissa

News Section: Broken down into several sections

1. Just Submitted and Popular
   
2. Art News: resources, photography; traditional; literature; artisan crafts;
3. Culture: chat news; art shows & events; interviews; art blogs & mags;happening; editorials; projects
4. deviantART News: community relations; hot topic; policy; prints; tech & features; help & FAQ; deviantART Blog
5. Fun: Books/Graphic Novels; Video Games; Music; Gossip (Cobrastarshipp)
   

Official Contests

1. Art History Contest
2. Art Nouveau
3. By Date: Adidas ; Bring Your Vision to Life
   

Community Projects

1. Charitable Events: not used often
   
2. Projects and Clubs: da Loving Day 2008; Art Institute online
   
3. World Events
4. Holidays
5. Tributes
   

Forum

1. deviantARt
2. Prints
3. Community
4. Employment
5. Entertainment
6. Hardware
7. Operating Systems
8. Software
   

My Postings

1. April is National Poetry Month
2. National Poetry Month: Journal Entry
3. The Life and Work of Vincent Van Gogh
4. River of Word Youth Poetry and Art Contest
5. Bayview's Historical Footprints
6. Audio Visual Center at the Main Library
7. Screening and Q & A for Documentary,The Betrayal
   

"What is news and what is not"
this disclaimer explains to the user what accounts as news and to whether it should be posted in this section of not. Bottom line: "dose it pertain to a larger audience?"

Historic Bayview Event. Posted in News>Art Shows and Event section under the main topic of> Culture.

River of Words Youth Poetry and Art Contest: Posted in News>Art News>Resources

deviant journal posting

Yesterday I posted an event in the Deviant Art "journal space" area. I was a bit disappointed to discover that as the author you are not capable of linking items to outside sources. So that is not so beneficial or user friendly to get people to use. They would have to actually cut and paste the URL to get to whatever we are talking about. which is easy, but people move on if they cannot quickly click on a link and be there. Do any of you know of any way other way to add links?

SFPL Librarians and Deviant Art

Hi guys,
I spoke with two art librarians yesterday, they were not overly aware of the site, but we looked at together, and they did agree that yes, somehow it could be used in relation to the library. The Art and Music dept, does have a blog and are listed on several spots of de lic ious .

Their suggestion was that we do not actually create fake persona, but go ahead and create a persona that represents the library, un-offcially. As a citizen we could highlight what we felt are the artistic stregths of the library. Such as the Historic photo collection, which are copyright free and therefore we can publish them onto deviant. Also April is national poetry month we could higlight the events that are takining place within the SF library system, create our own poertry and while doing so incourage other to do the same and to attend events, be it in SF or wherever.

Cheers.
anissa

general library presence

Here is what I have looked up so far that we can use on the site:

Devious info:
I figured we would use this for basic information.
-current residence: San Francisco
-interests: libraries, art...etc
-We can also add our faux website, www.deviantsflibrary.org or something.
-Another option we can add is the possibility of adding other messenging services, like AIM, MSN, Yahoo. This would allow people/patrons to have more access to us for any questions they may have. Times can be posted when a librarian will be available for these other messenging services.

Newest Deviations:
This would be added by us, the librarians/library.
Ideas - If we have upcoming events, perhaps we could upload images/film/writings by those
that we wish to feature.
Examples: Manga workshop
-use of images of artist, what they have done
Art exhibitions
-example of work
Literature
-quick excerpts
Only question, would be permission of artists for us to do so?

Favourites:
May be picked by staff from followers of our DeviantArt site. That way we incorporate
patrons who actively follow us on DeviantArt.
-This could change each week/every other week/monthly rotation.
Another idea is to include tours of the library online. We could feature departments.
Another idea is to include perhaps little snippets of recorded past events at the library or
images from those past events here.

Journal:
This can be used as the library's blog/posts.
Things we can post:
-upcoming events
-news
-recommendations by staff (books, film, music, etc)
-top lists


I haven't completed all the features yet for the library's basis/presence on Deviantart. I was thinking that we should probably create a faux Deviantart site for this library. It might be something good to show during our presentation.

In terms of library's basis/presence, it seems like there are a bunch of different options that we have with using the Deviantart site. I'll post more as I get through it.

Notes from 3/22 Meeting

Notes on Our Meeting
Sunday, March 22

I’m afraid my note-taking skills are a little suspect, but here’s what I have…


Matt discussed the use of the Tutorials feature as a possible tool for integrating deviantArt site into a library.

--way of tapping into the educational potential of the site
--Possibility of creating one or several personae to “inhabit”
each area (painting, photography, etc.)
--using the Galleries features to gather tutorials that our users might
get interested in, draw people to our library presence on the
site.


How to integrated the real Social Networking aspects of the site into our project?
--developing links to the Chat portion of deviantArt (dA).

We also discussed what type of library we are representing, and decided on an urban public library such as SFPL.

How to draw users to our presence on dA?

Use of polls/auctions/contests.

Linking a Teen Center/Teen Art component with dA.

Pete talked about the Literature section of dA, use of writing contests, writing groups, collaborative writing projects, guest writers, etc. All as ways of using existing formats on dA as a way of linking with the library.

Jamie mentioned some research she had done on other types of Social Networking and their application to libraries, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc.
-we discussed how the dA site differed from some of these and grappled with how to establish a library presence there.

Did we agree to use a blog format for the final presentation of our work?

We developed some categories to pursue further, including:
Library Presence on Website
Contests/Announcements/Other Communication Tools
Personae/Tutorials/Education
Writing/Literature
Social Networking

Discussed the possibility of setting up a real presence on the dA site, and also obtaining cooperation of SFPL on the project, but we seemed to feel time might be too short to get something like this going.


Pete

some beginnings...

Hi everyone!

I'm so sorry. Every week I say I'm going to post something just to get started, but no. Doesn't work out. I hope everyone is good and everyone is probably just as work-loaded right now as I.

So I'm just looking over deviantart website and seeing how we can relate this as a social network tool for libraries and what I've done is looked at some libraries that use social networking tools like myspace and facebook, just to get some ideas.

Just looking at the layout of deviantart, it seems a little limited maybe. But, I did find this option of editing your site I think. There is an option of putting up a custom, allowing you to put whatever you want to. I was thinking on that maybe we could add things like events and such, things that promote or drive people to using the library. There is also an option to add a link to twitter....so maybe we can use that somehow for to stay connected with others, like students or patrons in general. Perhaps that could be our use of online communication in case someone has a question that we can address online. I've never used twitter though before, but just read the caption for it...."social messaging to stay connected." Or there is also a Shoutbox on deviantart as well.

This is all just very rough, but I just wanted to get something out there. I hoped that this would make me feel more productive.

I'll keep remembering to look around the deviantart website and see what else we can do with it.
Jamie

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