Building Academic Library 2.0 Meredith Farkas November 2, 2007 cc license: Michael Habib

Meredith Farkas

November 2, 2007

So what is library 2.0?

Web 1.0: Democratized Access to Information

Web 2.0: Democratized Participation

Revolutionary or evolutionary? http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/08/24/library-20-ripples-another-go-at-the-graph/

What is different now?

Technology has enabled us to do so much more

but we’re no longer the only game in town.

Academic Library 2.0 is a state of mind Working to meet changing user needs Trusting our users (radical trust) Getting rid of the culture of perfect Aware of emerging technologies and opportunities Looking outside of the library world for applications, opportunities, inspiration

Working to meet changing user needs

Trusting our users (radical trust)

Getting rid of the culture of perfect

Aware of emerging technologies and opportunities

Looking outside of the library world for applications, opportunities, inspiration

Building Academic Library 2.0, Externally

Know your users

Know your users

Know your users

Question everything

Question everything

Communicate, become more transparent

Communicate, become more transparent

Communicate, become more transparent

Use 2.0 tools to highlight collections

Use 2.0 tools to highlight collections

Use 2.0 tools to highlight collections

Go where your users are

Go where your users are

Go where your users are

Go where your users are

Build participation

Build participation

Build participation

Build participation

Build participation

Create partnerships

Create partnerships

Don’t focus just on technologies

Building Academic Library 2.0, Internally

Develop a learning culture

Develop a risk-tolerant culture

Collect knowledge internally

It’s all about the network!

Be transparent

Good ideas can come from anyone and anywhere

Nurture talent

Be agile

Involve staff from all levels in planning

Avoid technolust

Understand staff members’ needs and limitations

Understand staff members’ needs and limitations

Time must be devoted to all this

Make keeping up a part of people’s job descriptions

Do you need new staff? Or just to do a little shuffling?

Is your organization (as it is currently structured) able to make all this happen?

Thanks! [email_address] AIM: librarianmer Links and presentation at http://meredithfarkas.wetpaint.com

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Links and presentation at

http://meredithfarkas.wetpaint.com