Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 It’s Okay to Play! Dave Pattern, Library Systems Manager University of Huddersfield [email_address] http://slideshare.net/daveyp

Contents Question time! Web 2.0 Web 2.0 example – Flickr Is there such a thing as a “free lunch”? Library 2.0 Examples of Library 2.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Question time!

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 example – Flickr

Is there such a thing as a “free lunch”?

Library 2.0

Examples of Library 2.0

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Question time! Do you regularly use a mobile phone? http://www.flickr.com/photos/ari/362924278/

Do you regularly use a mobile phone?

Question time! do U snd txt msgz? http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessicamills/231072148/

do U snd txt msgz?

Question time! Do you have your own MP3 player? http://www.flickr.com/photos/nez/268673268/

Do you have your own MP3 player?

Question time! Do have broadband internet access at home? http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacksonlee/6222523/

Do have broadband internet access at home?

Question time! Do you have wireless internet access at home? http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/113353477/

Do you have wireless internet access at home?

Question time! Do you regularly use your home PC or laptop for more than an hour each evening? http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardholden/340601444/

Do you regularly use your home PC or laptop for more than an hour each evening?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardholden/340601444/

Question time! Do you regularly use your home PC or laptop for 2 or 3 hours an evening? http://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronjacobs/64368770/

Do you regularly use your home PC or laptop for 2 or 3 hours an evening?

Question time! Do have your own weblog / blog? http:// www.blogger.com

Do have your own weblog / blog?

Question time! Do you regularly read other peoples weblogs and/or contribute to other weblogs? http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001325.html

Do you regularly read other peoples weblogs and/or contribute to other weblogs?

Question time! Do you regularly use Wikipedia?

Do you regularly use Wikipedia?

Question time! Have you ever edited a page on Wikipedia?

Have you ever edited a page on Wikipedia?

Question time! Do you regularly use instant messaging or online chat? e.g. AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN, gTalk, Jabber, ICQ, Meebo, etc http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch/en-GB/

Do you regularly use instant messaging or online chat?

e.g. AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN, gTalk, Jabber, ICQ, Meebo, etc

Question time! Do you have a games console at home? http://www.flickr.com/photos/jstar/336785888/

Do you have a games console at home?

Question time! Do you play games online and/or visit virtual worlds? e.g. World of Warcraft, Second Life, etc? http://www.flickr.com/photos/christajoy42/354580876/

Do you play games online and/or visit virtual worlds?

e.g. World of Warcraft, Second Life, etc?

Web 1.0

Web 1.0 Slow access speeds (e.g. dial-up modem) Limited availability Static web pages Little interactivity Mostly text …lots and lots of text …on a grey background! Web sites that would only work with one type of web browser The “Read Only Web”

Slow access speeds (e.g. dial-up modem)

Limited availability

Static web pages

Little interactivity

Mostly text …lots and lots of text …on a grey background!

Web sites that would only work with one type of web browser

The “Read Only Web”

Web 2.0 Fast access speeds (e.g. broadband) Wide availability (e.g. wireless) Dynamic web pages High interactivity Lots of multimedia Web sites that work on many devices (e.g. PCs, mobile phones, etc) The “Read/Write Web”

Fast access speeds (e.g. broadband)

Wide availability (e.g. wireless)

Dynamic web pages

High interactivity

Lots of multimedia

Web sites that work on many devices (e.g. PCs, mobile phones, etc)

The “Read/Write Web”

Super connected Web 1.0 was about connecting computers dial-up -> ISDN -> broadband -> wireless Web 2.0 is about connecting people instant messaging & chatrooms Skype & VoIP social networking sites virtual words (Second Life, Club Penguin, etc) communities of common interest microblogging (Twitter, etc)

Web 1.0 was about connecting computers

dial-up -> ISDN -> broadband -> wireless

Web 2.0 is about connecting people

instant messaging & chatrooms

Skype & VoIP

social networking sites

virtual words (Second Life, Club Penguin, etc)

communities of common interest

microblogging (Twitter, etc)

Some Web 2.0 concepts Applications delivered via a web browser Exploiting and (sometimes freely) sharing data User participation, empowerment, and collaboration Social networking Communities of interest Tagging and folksonomies Mashups and other unintended uses

Applications delivered via a web browser

Exploiting and (sometimes freely) sharing data

User participation, empowerment, and collaboration

Social networking

Communities of interest

Tagging and folksonomies

Mashups and other unintended uses

Two point “Oh” Evolutionary rather than revolutionary

Evolutionary rather than revolutionary

Two Point “Ho-ho-ho”

a Web 2.0 example…

Flickr

Flickr

Flickr

Flickr – image pools

Flickr - tags

Flickr – tag cloud

Flickr - geotagging

Flickr & Libraries

Flickr & Libraries

Flickr – mashups Flickr Services API Moo cards Flickr toys Retrievr Colr Pickr Multicolr Search Lab

Flickr Services API

Moo cards

Flickr toys

Retrievr

Colr Pickr

Multicolr Search Lab

Some facts and figures over 2 billion images on Flickr 110 million MySpace accounts 228 million edits on Wikipedia 112 million weblogs tracked by Technorati 70 million Facebook accounts 24 million books on LibraryThing 7.2 million editors on Wikipedia 2.4 million Wikipedia articles

over 2 billion images on Flickr

110 million MySpace accounts

228 million edits on Wikipedia

112 million weblogs tracked by Technorati

70 million Facebook accounts

24 million books on LibraryThing

7.2 million editors on Wikipedia

2.4 million Wikipedia articles

So, who’s doing all this stuff?

US online demographics Pew Report: Generations Online (Oct 2007)

“social website for over-50s”

Is there such a thing as a “free lunch”?

A Tale of Two Capacities IBM Deskstar HDD June 2000 £125 20GB £6.25 per GB £6,250 per TB What will the price per GB/TB be in 2016? Hitachi Deskstar HDD July 2008 £95 1000GB (1TB) £0.10 per GB £95 per TB

IBM Deskstar HDD

June 2000

£125

20GB

£6.25 per GB

£6,250 per TB

What will the price per GB/TB be in 2016?

Hitachi Deskstar HDD

July 2008

£95

1000GB (1TB)

£0.10 per GB

£95 per TB

Freeconomics “Never in history has so much innovation been offered to so many for so little [cost]. The world’s most exciting businesses – technology, transport, media, medicine and finance – are increasingly defined by the word ‘free’ … … It is a difficult proposition to beat.” Michael Schrage, “Why giveaways are changing the rules of business” (Financial Times, 2006)

“Never in history has so much innovation been offered to so many for so little [cost]. The world’s most exciting businesses – technology, transport, media, medicine and finance – are increasingly defined by the word ‘free’ … … It is a difficult proposition to beat.”

Michael Schrage, “Why giveaways are changing the rules of business” (Financial Times, 2006)

Freeconomics His new ambition, [Ryanair's founder Michael O'Leary] told the Financial Times in 2004, was to give customers free tickets, perhaps even to pay them to fly. He predicted: “In a decade or so, airlines will pay travellers to distribute people around Europe.” “The big giveaway” (Guardian, May 2008)

His new ambition, [Ryanair's founder Michael O'Leary] told the Financial Times in 2004, was to give customers free tickets, perhaps even to pay them to fly. He predicted: “In a decade or so, airlines will pay travellers to distribute people around Europe.”

The BIG Questions “What happens when things get free?” Professor Carver Mead, Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology

“What happens when things get free?”

Professor Carver Mead, Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology

The BIG Questions What happens to the music industry when I can fit every song ever recorded onto my MP3 player?

What happens to the music industry when I can fit every song ever recorded onto my MP3 player?

The BIG Questions What happens when free wireless internet access is available everywhere?

What happens when free wireless internet access is available everywhere?

The BIG Questions What happens to my local library when I can fit every book ever written on my e-book reader?

What happens to my local library when I can fit every book ever written on my e-book reader?

2008 British Library/JISC Report The information environment in 2017: electronic books, driven by consumer demand, will finally become established as the primary format for educational textbooks and scholarly books and monographs, as well as reference formats. the most significant impact for research will not be how things get published, but how they get accessed. http:// www.bl.uk/news/pdf/googlegen.pdf

The information environment in 2017:

electronic books, driven by consumer demand, will finally become established as the primary format for educational textbooks and scholarly books and monographs, as well as reference formats.

the most significant impact for research will not be how things get published, but how they get accessed.

Library 2.0 “...a loosely defined model for a modernized form of library service that reflects a transition within the library world in the way that services are delivered to users. This includes ... an increased flow of information from the user back to the library.” Wikipedia article for “ Library 2.0 ”

“...a loosely defined model for a modernized form of library service that reflects a transition within the library world in the way that services are delivered to users. This includes ... an increased flow of information from the user back to the library.”

Library 2.0 Use of “2.0” technologies (blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, social networking, etc) Actively involve users in developments User centric initiatives Delivering services directly to users Libraries without walls (“ The Third Place ”) The “Read/Write Library” Liberate your data & make it work harder

Use of “2.0” technologies (blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, social networking, etc)

Actively involve users in developments

User centric initiatives

Delivering services directly to users

Libraries without walls (“ The Third Place ”)

The “Read/Write Library”

Liberate your data & make it work harder

Library 2.0 Challenges us to: be more flexible embrace change be more willing to take risks give library staff the opportunity to play and experiment with new technologies go to where our users are, rather than force them to come to us give our users opportunities to contribute

Challenges us to:

be more flexible

embrace change

be more willing to take risks

give library staff the opportunity to play and experiment with new technologies

go to where our users are, rather than force them to come to us

give our users opportunities to contribute

Librarian 2.0?

Librarian 2.0!

Charlotte & Mecklenburg County Public Library

“ Creating the new library universe” National & State Libraries Australasia draft paper access is our primary driver digital is mainstream no job will be unchanged new web technologies and community digital content are shaping user expectations and behaviour some things we have always done, we will no longer do experimentation and risk are necessary people want services and spaces to be welcoming and easy to use, and they want to be independent The Big Bang: Creating the new library universe

National & State Libraries Australasia draft paper

access is our primary driver

digital is mainstream

no job will be unchanged

new web technologies and community digital content are shaping user expectations and behaviour

some things we have always done, we will no longer do

experimentation and risk are necessary

people want services and spaces to be welcoming and easy to use, and they want to be independent

Play and experimentation

It’s okay to play! “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” attrib: George Bernard Shaw 2007 Library & Information Show Workshop on Library 2.0 Q: I don’t get paid to play, I get paid to work A: So, don’t call it “play”, call it “professional development”

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

attrib: George Bernard Shaw

2007 Library & Information Show Workshop on Library 2.0

Q: I don’t get paid to play, I get paid to work

A: So, don’t call it “play”, call it “professional development”

Admit it, haven’t you wanted to do this in your library…

Huddersfield Public Library

Somewhere over the rainbow?

Never judge a book by it’s cover “ I borrowed a book 3 years ago that had an orange cover… can I borrow it again?”

“ I borrowed a book 3 years ago that had an orange cover… can I borrow it again?”

Delft Public Library

Delft Public Library

Delft Public Library

Delft Public Library

Seattle Public Library

Seattle Public Library

Glasgow Caledonian University

Glasgow Caledonian University

Sheffield Information Commons

data visualisations

eye candy

Keyword search visualisations

Library 2.0 in Libraries (n.b. some are more “2.0” than others)

Topeka and Shawnee County

Westmont Public Library, Illinois

Westmont Public Library, Illinois

Westmont Public Library, Illinois

Ball State University, Indiana

Ball State University, Indiana

Ball State University, Indiana

Stevens County Rural Library, Washington

Flickr – 365 Library Days Project

Biblioteksvar, Norway

Thomas Ford Memorial Library, Illinois

Thomas Ford Memorial Library, Illinois

Dance your fines away… “Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting a teen librarian who keeps Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) set up all the time so she can invoke it as need be. For example, if a teen has overdue books, she will dance-off against the person, and if the teen wins, the librarian will waive the fines.” The Shifted Librarian: Gaming for Fines (Jan 2007)

“Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting a teen librarian who keeps Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) set up all the time so she can invoke it as need be. For example, if a teen has overdue books, she will dance-off against the person, and if the teen wins, the librarian will waive the fines.”

Gwinnett County Public Library Rock the Shelves 2005 www.flickr.com/photos/michaelcasey/sets/632151/

Rock the Shelves 2005

www.flickr.com/photos/michaelcasey/sets/632151/

University of Worcester, UK

University of Huddersfield, UK

Hennepin County Library

Hennepin County Library

Glasgow University Library

Ann Arbor District Library

Ann Arbor District Library

Ann Arbor District Library

Charlotte & Mecklenburg County Public Library

Hartlepool Borough Council Libraries

Cheshire Public Library, Connecticut

McCracken County Public Library, Kentucky

St. Joseph County Public Library, Indiana

Libraries in Second Life

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