LIBRARIAN 2.0 NEW BREED OR JUST ANOTHER DAY AT THE OFFICE? October 16, 2008 Jenny Levine

Fiat Lux, Fiat Latebra: A Celebration of Historical Library Functions by D. W. Krummel (1999)

Fiat Lux, Fiat Latebra: A Celebration of Historical Library Functions by D. W. Krummel (1999)

Fiat Lux, Fiat Latebra: A Celebration of Historical Library Functions by D. W. Krummel (1999)

Fiat Lux, Fiat Latebra: A Celebration of Historical Library Functions by D. W. Krummel (1999)

Fiat Lux, Fiat Latebra: A Celebration of Historical Library Functions by D. W. Krummel (1999)

Fiat Lux, Fiat Latebra: A Celebration of Historical Library Functions by D. W. Krummel (1999)

Fiat Lux, Fiat Latebra: A Celebration of Historical Library Functions by D. W. Krummel (1999)

Fiat Lux, Fiat Latebra: A Celebration of Historical Library Functions by D. W. Krummel (1999)

Fiat Lux, Fiat Latebra: A Celebration of Historical Library Functions by D. W. Krummel (1999)

Fiat Lux, Fiat Latebra: A Celebration of Historical Library Functions by D. W. Krummel (1999) EIGHT 8. AD 2005? VIII. Instrument for People Access to all communications Particpatory Social Participation media in the interest of social participation and user-generated content Library 2.0 = Library Too

In the Seventh Age Telephone Fax Music Video Internet Email Web

Telephone

Fax

Music

Video

Internet

Email

Web

New in the Eighth Age User-generated content (new collaborators) Providing tools, not just content More new formats (ebooks, MP3s, videogames) New places (embedded) Librarians integrating external tools

User-generated content (new collaborators)

Providing tools, not just content

More new formats (ebooks, MP3s, videogames)

New places (embedded)

Librarians integrating external tools

New Community Role No longer the “gatekeeper” of information Now providing ways to create and access that community online The “just-in-time” librarian http://www.flickr.com/photos/49503078599@N01/449313467

No longer the “gatekeeper” of information

Now providing ways to create and access that community online

The “just-in-time”

librarian

Just-in-time Means Options The “two-way” library Website RSS feed Machines Humans

The “two-way” library

Just-in-time Means Options The “two-way” library Website RSS feed Machines Humans

The “two-way” library

“ Nimble, not NIMBY”

“ Nimble, not NIMBY”

“ Nimble, not NIMBY”

7 th + 8 th +

7 th + 8 th http://flickr.com/photos/david_s_carter/2569748447/ +

7 th + 8 th +

7 th + 8 th + http://www.flickr.com/photos/7219533@N02/413269347

7 th + 8 th + http://flickr.com/photos/newtonfreelibrary/988663727/

7 th + 8 th + http://flickr.com/photos/oso/2343596768/

Get Rid of the One-Ways & Dead Ends

Get Rid of the One-Ways & Dead Ends

8 th Age = “Participatory Librarianship”

Participatory Librarianship “ Librarians should…focus on the phenomena made possible by the technology. Most important of these phenomena, the library invites participation.” - Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation , p. 20

“ Librarians should…focus on the phenomena made possible by the technology. Most important of these phenomena, the library invites participation.”

- Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation , p. 20

Users = Collaborators “ Turns out, many library users did not want to be mere users of libraries, library systems, and library services. They wanted to contribute to the richness and value of ’our’ systems by adding reviews, comments, tags, ratings, and even -- perish the thought -- their own original creative works. They wanted to help us make library information systems even better and more useful, and they didn't want to do it merely by completing an annual feedback survey.” - Tom Peters

Collaboration

Unintended Consequences

Unintended Consequences

Unintended Consequences

Unintended Consequences

Unintended Consequences

Unintended Consequences

Unintended Consequences?

Library Tools Built by Patrons

Library Tools Built by Patrons

Library Tools Built by Patrons

Library PR Built by Patrons

New Development Cycle? AADL offers RSS Ed Vielmetti (SuperPatron) creates the “new book shelf” online Ed posts screenshot to Flickr and library bloggers write about it ACPL implements their own new book shelf online

Participatory Librarianship “ Let us look specifically at how participatory networks can be used in the library’s role as facilitator of knowledge through conversation. An obvious example is libraries hosting blogs and Wikis for their communities creating virtual meeting spaces for individuals and groups, just as libraries do in the physical world. Indeed, these are increasingly useful functions for libraries.” - Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation , p. 23

“ Let us look specifically at how participatory networks can be used in the library’s role as facilitator of knowledge through conversation. An obvious example is libraries hosting blogs and Wikis for their communities creating virtual meeting spaces for individuals and groups, just as libraries do in the physical world. Indeed, these are increasingly useful functions for libraries.”

- Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation , p. 23

Creating Community Spaces

Creating Community Spaces

Creating Community Spaces

Creating Community Spaces for Content Creation

Creating Community Spaces for Content Creation

Catalog as Community Space

Participatory Librarianship “ What if we assume that the catalog is just the current place a user is involving in an ongoing conversation … what would that look like?” - Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation , p. 25

“ What if we assume that the catalog is just the current place a user is involving in an ongoing conversation … what would that look like?”

- Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation , p. 25

The Participatory Catalog + + question

5 Things You Can Do Today RSS Recycle your content everywhere you can Use an RSS reader to keep up Build flexible spaces (online and offline) that facilitate conversation Engage your most active users Play Find a community online

RSS

Recycle your content everywhere you can

Use an RSS reader to keep up

Build flexible spaces (online and offline) that facilitate conversation

Engage your most active users

Play

Find a community online

Library 8.0 (2005-?)

Jenny Levine Strategy Guide [email_address] AIM: cybrarygal http://theshiftedlibrarian.pbwiki.com/ October 16, 2008