Capture the
20:20 Vision for
Libraries
LIANZA & SLANZA Weekend School
Judy O’Connell
http://judyoconnell.com

what is our 2020
vision?

Pandora

digital tools

communication, conversation, connecting, community

Three Billion Facts

social networking

social networking

RSS Mashups
Social Software
Folksonomy / Tagging
Collaboration
Library 2.0
Blogs
Wikis
Filesharing
Podcasting
Photosharing

Ten Years Past
Few or no experiences with....
websites, email, spam, phishing, computer viruses
mobile phones were rare and expensive
a Sony Walkman was state of the art
CDs were pretty cool
WiFi was almost unknown
MySpace was an apartment!

What will the Future bring?
Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke

Who’s watching YOUR space?

from Gutenberg

to Library ATM
• The Expresso - a
$US50,000 vending
machine with a
conceivably infinite
library - is consumer
ready, and is debuting
in 10 to 25 libraries
and bookstores in
2007.

We need libraries to matter in a web-savvy world.
Is your library already using wikis, blogs, podcasting,
folksonomies, social networking, or other Internet
media?
Is your library blogging, using Instant Messenger, RSS,
promoting services through Flickr and MySpace, or
using a customized OPAC complete with user reviews
and electronic book enrichment?
Academic, school, public, and special libraries are
incorporating Library 2.0 technologies? ........
Are you?

resource environment
• MARC compliant library catalogue
• 24/7 online access for information services
• Blended content enrichment
• Federated searching, Open URL
• Taxonomy supported by global metadata
standards - SCOT, SCIS + Dublin Core etc

web 2.0 platform
• •
E-Learning Folksonomy
LMS, CMS, VLE, etc Tagging for
personalisation
• Social Networks
•
MySpace, Beebo etc Searching
Blogs & Wikis Browser/Desktop API
Ning networking Visual & personalised
Social Bookmarking
•
Image & media sharing Mobile computing
Audio & video
• RSS feeds
• Instant Messaging Pipes plus!
MSN, Yahoo, Meebo
•
Twitter etc Mashups

web 2.0 conversation
• Teacher’s voice
• Student’s voice
• Librarian’s voice
• Library voice
• Our conversation

Librarian 2.0
• •
Embrace Web 2.0 tools Touch the entire Web and
without technolust build better data
• •
Content is conversation - Expand library
be guided by how users bibliographic services
access, consume and
•
create content. Package and push
metadata - make resources
• Build new services with discoverable
Web 2.0 technologies
• Expand delivery - RSS and
• Physical and virtual beyond
services

• Blogs & wiki - everyone can communicate
• RSS - everyone can read about it
• Del.ici.ous - sharing favourite web pages
• Flickr - sort, store and share your snaps
• Office Tools - Gliffy, Writely, Slideshare....
• Video Sharing - YouTube, Google Video, TeacherTube...
• Podcasting - mulitiple literacies in action
• Wiki - Power of the crowd
• Online Friends - MySpace, Ning, Beebo, FaceBook

virtual presence!
Second Life - Library 2.0

virtual learning
EduNation - SecondLife

:Birmingham Library

where to begin?
RSS
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new spaces
learning commons

• Reading materials for pleasure and study
• Information retrieval and critical analysis
support
• Learning activities - Social activities
• Academic writing guidance
• Special education learning support
• Information technology support
• Multimedia design and production
• Traditional bibliographic services
• 24/7 Learning support
creativity NOT productivity

key questions
• What is the purpose of the ‘commons’?
• What needs will be addressed?
• What programs will be put into place ?
• What faculty will be involved?
• What kinds of hardware, software, furnishing?
• What kinds of staff are needed?
• What promotion and training is needed?
• How will you measure success?
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heyjude

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CGLibrary
twitter
Judy O’Connell
Text Stephen Abram
Katherine
Greenhill

bookmarking ideas

bookmarking ideas
http://del.icio.us/heyjude

bookmarking ideas
• Filter and manage • Targetted networking
information
• Collaborative pooling
• Create a knowledge of information
network
• TAG - Your own
• Provide learning virtual filing cabinet
support
• Folksonomy

bookmarking ideas
folksonomy, redefines web navigation.
In addition, if Del.icio.us could aggregate the
bookmarks over all users, they could come up with a
folksonomy for everybody, based on how the total
population actually valued and referred to the
content.
technorati, google blog search and others are
aggregating this folksonomy information and creating
a web of relationships.
TAG horizonproject07 - the power of folksonomy

RSS Feeds

RSS browsing

RSS feeds
http://www.bloglines.com/public/heyjude

image feeds
http://www.flickr.com/photos/heyjude

wikis and podcasts
• delivering rich
educational
content
• communicating
• collaborating
• exciting new
learning
opportunities

• Evaluate the global library experience
• Embrace Web 2.0 technologies
• Preserve knowledge and communities
• Experiment with creative spaces
• Make search technology work for you!

judy.oconnell@parra.catholic.edu.au