ARCLib - Web 2.0 and Library 2.0

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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/

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

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

Question time!
Do you regularly use Wikipedia?

Question time!
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/

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

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/

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”

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”

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)

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

Two point “Oh”
Evolutionary rather than revolutionary

Two Point “Ho-ho-ho”

a Web 2.0 example…

Flickr

Flickr – image pools

Flickr - tags

Flickr – tag cloud

Flickr - geotagging

Flickr & Libraries

Flickr – mashups
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

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

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)

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)

The BIG Questions
“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?

The BIG Questions
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?

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

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 ”

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

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

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

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”

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?”

Delft Public Library

Seattle Public Library

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

Ball State University, Indiana

Stevens County Rural Library, Washington

Flickr – 365 Library Days Project

Biblioteksvar, Norway

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)

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

University of Worcester, UK

University of Huddersfield, UK

Hennepin County Library

Glasgow University 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

104 slides?!?
That’s more than enough!
I hope you’ve seen at least one thing in this presentation that you’d like to explore further

Thank you! http://slideshare.net/daveyp

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