Why “Library 2.0?” Context: “Web 2.0” Definition: “a second generation of the web that is focused on the ability for people to collaborate and share information online.” (webopedia.com) Blogs, wikis, and community-based web services such as Flickr and LibraryThing are all seen as components of Web 2.0. Not a new technology, it’s a new attitude.

Definition: “a second generation of the web that is focused on the ability for people to collaborate and share information online.” (webopedia.com)

Blogs, wikis, and community-based web services such as Flickr and LibraryThing are all seen as components of Web 2.0.

Not a new technology, it’s a new attitude.

Why “Library 2.0?” Definitions Library 2.0 “is a user-centered paradigm focusing on knowledge, experience, collaboration, the creation of new content and encouraging the heart.” (Michael Stephens) “ Library 2.0 is the natural evolution of library services to a level where the library user is in control of how and when she gets access to the services she needs and wants.” (Thomas Brevik)

Library 2.0 “is a user-centered paradigm focusing on knowledge, experience, collaboration, the creation of new content and encouraging the heart.” (Michael Stephens)

“ Library 2.0 is the natural evolution of library services to a level where the library user is in control of how and when she gets access to the services she needs and wants.” (Thomas Brevik)

Why “Library 2.0?” More definitions

Why “Library 2.0?” More definitions

Why “Library 2.0?” New tools for core library services Libraries as community; Web 2.0 offers new tools for community Libraries as organizers of self-expression; Web 2.0 offers new tools for organizing and accessing self-expression 2.0=Exciting new tools for web-based outreach

Libraries as community; Web 2.0 offers new tools for community

Libraries as organizers of self-expression; Web 2.0 offers new tools for organizing and accessing self-expression

2.0=Exciting new tools for web-based outreach

Why “Library 2.0?” My “Aha!” Moments Harry Potter fan communities Flickr Library Thing Blogger/Bloglines (RSS + APIs) Empowerment, not mere consumption

Harry Potter fan communities

Flickr

Library Thing

Blogger/Bloglines (RSS + APIs)

Empowerment, not mere consumption

Why “Library 2.0?” “Aha!”: The Leaky Cauldron

Why “Library 2.0?” “Aha!”: Pottercast Streaming Audio

http://www.ocls.info/podcast Why “Library 2.0?” “Aha!”: Orange County Podcasts

http://podcast.denverlibrary.org/ Why “Library 2.0?” “Aha!”: Denver PL Podcasts

Why “Library 2.0?” “Aha!”: Harry Potter Lexicon User Comments

Why “Library 2.0?” “Aha!”: Flickr

Why “Library 2.0?” “Aha!”: Lansing Library on Flickr

Why “Library 2.0?” “Aha!”: Picture Ann Arbor

Why “Library 2.0?” “Aha!”: LibraryThing

Why “Library 2.0?” “Aha!”: LibraryThing My Catalog

Why “Library 2.0?” “Aha!”: LibraryThing Community!

Why “Library 2.0?” Bunkermentality: My Blog

Why “Library 2.0?” Bunkermentality: My Blog

Why “Library 2.0?” Why indeed? The young people I am in contact with on the Potter fansites expect to be able to comment, to have personal user profiles, to be able to use something they create for one site to be usable somewhere else, to have platforms for their own personal creativity

The young people I am in contact with on the Potter fansites expect

to be able to comment,

to have personal user profiles,

to be able to use something they create for one site to be usable somewhere else,

to have platforms for their own personal creativity