Libraries Do Matter: Enhancing Traditional Services with Library 2.0

Libraries Do Matter: Enhancing Traditional Services with Library 2.0. Diana Sachs-Silveira, Tampa Bay Library Consortium Chad Mairn, St. Petersburg College Libraries VIP Library Workshop May 11, 2007 http://del.icio.us/VIP2007Chad_Diana

Introducing Chad’s & Diana’s avatars …

Objectives:
Discover what Web/Library 2.0 is.
Learn how it can be used to promote traditional library services.
Explore other technological trends that are positively impacting libraries.
Highlight new library roles taking place in a new technological landscape?
Q & A.

The Machine is Us/ing Us

What is Web 2.0

Stabilo Boss’ pictures shared through Creative Commons License

The Many Forms of Social Computing © Forrester Research. Source: Social Computing – How Networks Erode Institutional Power, and What to Do About It. 13 February 2006. ( http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/0,7211,38772,00.html ) [Thanks Robert Berkman for this slide.]

Online Photos
Flickr tabblo scrapblog

Blogs http://www.libdex.com/weblogs.html

Podcasting http://www.podcast.net/ http://www.ipodder.org/ MP3 +

Web-Based Communities
Online social networks
People work together
Giving a “Voice of the voiceless”
Integrate several technologies

Online Communities
MySpace , FaceBook , Friendster , Gather , Ning

Chatting
Yahoo , MSN , Google
Meebo , Trillian
Ask a Librarian
60% of teens and young adults on the Internet use chat “often”
Allows for file sharing, conferencing and VoIP
Nearly 6 in 10 use IM to communicate at work

Folksonomy or tagging
AKA ‘tagging’
Vocabulary Clouds
Users add value
Harnessing Collective Intelligence of Users

Technorati
del.icio.us
LibraryThing
Reddit

Gaming

Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
MMORPG or RPGs
WoW has 8 million subscribers world-wide
Nearly 40 percent of gamers are female, and nearly a quarter of gamers are over the age of 40.

Second Life
3+ million people on 2 nd Life
Integrate Chat, blogs, and often own economies

Teen Nights with Gaming Teen Night at Chesterfield Library

Online Documents
EditGrid ; Google

What is news?

Portability

Remixing/Mashups http:// www.programmableweb.com/mashups http://www.talis.com/tdn/innovationdir

Are libraries still relevant?

Compare these mission statements:
OCLC
To further access to the world’s information and reduce library costs by offering services for libraries and their users.
Google O rganize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful .
Source: “Technology Curves and Libraries (or) The “Hurrieder” We Go, The “Behinder” We Get” by Richard Madaus.

Is this our future? Is the Machine Using/Us?

Library 2.0?
“ Library 2.0 is not about technology.”
“ Library 2.0 is all about technology.”
“ Library 2.0 is a path towards improvement of services.”
“ Library 2.0 means abandoning services that serve small or unimportant groups.”
“ Library 2.0 is a paradigm shift that changes almost everything in a library.”
“ Library 2.0 is hype that can interfere with the sound ideals involved.”
Source: ‘Cites & Insights.’ Crawford at Large. Vol 6, No 2 Midwinter 2006 p.4 Thanks again Robert Berkman!

Some Examples:
Blogs.
Darien, CT Library
Guilford Free Library Blog
Georgia State University Library Subject Specific Blogs
Wikis.
University of Connecticut Staff Wiki
Podcasts.
Cheshire Public Library Podcast :

Some Examples:
Social Tagging:
University of Pennsylvania PennTags . Sample Record
St Petersburg College Library on LibraryThing ; Interactive Book Reviews
Guilford Technical Community College on LibraryThing
RSS Feeds:
Hennepin County Library: Events
Kenton Public Library: New Books, by Subject
Southington Library and Museum
U. Manitoba: health/science library feeds
( LisFeeds : Aggregated collection of library feeds)
The above examples courtesy of Jenny Levine @ The Shifted Librarian ( http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/ )

Libraries must …
Be noticed!
Be selective.
Continue collaborating. “Wisdom of crowds”
Help clear “data smog” (i.e., information overload).
Focus on the user!!!

The Future? Web 3.0?
Technology trends are fast
Internet Operating System
Next Generation Library Catalog
Content Management Systems (e.g., Joomla, Drupal)
Reference 2.0 = Ms. Dewey?
Keep our focus on the user

The Future is now!

What Now?
Play! Learn!
TBLC’s 2.0 Challenge
Share ideas and play nicely with others
Read Blogs and blog your experiences
Think outside the box

Check out and add to: http://del.icio.us/VIP2007Chad_Diana Chad Mairn St. Petersburg College mairn.chad@spcollege.edu (727) 341.7181 GoogleTalk: chadmairn Diana Sachs-Silveira TBLC sachsd@tblc.org (813)622-8252 ext 234 Yahoo ID: diverdee987 Presentation Available @: www.slideshare.net

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