Chrystie Hill & Michael Porter Internet Librarian 2007 blending in librarians in the networked community

................... our networked world

“ Life is easier in a community blessed with a substantial stock of social capital. In the first place, networks of civic engagement foster sturdy norms of generalized reciprocity and encourage the emergence of social trust . Such networks facilitate coordination and communication , amplify reputations , and thus allow dilemmas of collective action to be resolved. When economic and political negotiation is embedded in dense networks of social interaction , incentives for opportunism are reduced … [they] broaden the participants‘ sense of self, developing ‘I’ into ‘we’ … ”

. . . . . . . . . web 2.0 Bloglines iGoogle Flickr YouTube Twitter Facebook MySpace Netflix …

“ it’s a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before ”

people

[us]

Blogs Wikis Podcasts Mashups Social Networks RSS [powered by]

[not organized] [not controlled]

“ libraries must be part of society's thinking about how we develop and nurture social as well as information networks ” - Jean Preer American Libraries, September 2001

[making sense]

“ librarians have made retrieval and accuracy a god—disregarding what users’ preferences are ” -associate university librarian OCLC Environmental Scan 2003

library = books

................... the networked librarian

“ libraries should be about the people they’re for, not about the services we think they need ” -Barbara Fister Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota

“ books and materials are secondary in a public library. the most important aspect is the human interaction . the library experience cannot be viewed as just an information transaction, but rather as an opportunity to touch and connect lives ” -Cheryl Napsha Director, Bethel Park Public Library

“ technology must support the relationship and community building efforts of the library, else there isn’t much use for it ” -William Barrow Cleveland State University

“ don’t get hemmed in by thinking things aren’t ‘what libraries do’ we don’t just provide books and internet services – we help the community. we can do that in more ways than we’re used to doing. ” -Mary Doud Kalamazoo Public Library

................... blending in

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“ we are building community daily in a manner we never would have imagined a year ago ” -Teen Services Librarian Seattle Public Library

chrystie hill | itgirl [email_address] http://librariesbuildcommunities.org michael porter | libraryman http://www.libraryman.com [email_address]