Web 2.0 & 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 Library 2.0 Some Library 2.0 examples… …which we won’t have time for!  Play and experimentation Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Question time!

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 example – Flickr

Library 2.0

Some Library 2.0 examples… …which we won’t have time for! 

Play and experimentation

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/

Do you regularly use a mobile phone?

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

do U snd txt msgz?

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

Do you have your own MP3 player?

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

Do have broadband internet access at home?

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

Do you have wireless internet access at home?

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/

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/

Do you regularly use your home PC or laptop for 2 or 3 hours an evening?

Question time! Do have your own weblog or contribute to one? http://www.blogger.com

Do have your own weblog or contribute to one?

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

Do you regularly read other peoples weblogs and/or leave comments?

Question time! Do you regularly use Wikipedia? …or should that be “Will you admit to using Wikipedia?”

Do you regularly use Wikipedia? …or should that be “Will you admit to using Wikipedia?”

Question time! Have you ever edited a page on Wikipedia? …if not, why not?

Have you ever edited a page on Wikipedia? …if not, why not?

Question time! Do you regularly use instant messaging or online chat? e.g. AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN, gTalk, Jabber, ICQ, Meebo, etc

Do you regularly use instant messaging or online chat?

e.g. AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN, gTalk, Jabber, ICQ, Meebo, etc

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

Do you have a games console at home?

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/

Do you play games online and/or visit virtual worlds?

e.g. World of Warcraft, Second Life, etc?

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”

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”

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 & chat rooms Skype & VoIP social networking sites virtual words (Second Life, Club Penguin, etc) communities of common interest microblogging (Twitter, etc)

Web 1.0 was about connecting computers

dial-up -> ISDN -> broadband -> wireless

Web 2.0 is about connecting people

instant messaging & chat rooms

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 User participation, empowerment, and collaboration Social networking Communities of common interest Tagging and folksonomies Exploiting and (sometimes freely) sharing data Mashups and other unintended uses

Applications delivered via a web browser

User participation, empowerment, and collaboration

Social networking

Communities of common interest

Tagging and folksonomies

Exploiting and (sometimes freely) sharing data

Mashups and other unintended uses

Two point “Oh” Evolutionary rather than revolutionary

Evolutionary rather than revolutionary

a Web 2.0 example…

Flickr

Flickr

Flickr

Flickr – image pools

Flickr - tags

Flickr - clusters

Flickr - geotagging

Flickr – mashups Flickr Services API Moo cards Flickr toys Retrievr Colr Pickr

Flickr Services API

Moo cards

Flickr toys

Retrievr

Colr Pickr

Some facts and figures over 2 billion images on Flickr 228 million edits on Wikipedia 112 million weblogs tracked by Technorati 110 million MySpace accounts 70 million Facebook accounts 24 million books on LibraryThing 7.2 million editors on Wikipedia 2.4 million Wikipedia articles

over 2 billion images on Flickr

228 million edits on Wikipedia

112 million weblogs tracked by Technorati

110 million MySpace accounts

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?

Millennial Generation Born 1980s & 1990s Grew up with technology and the Web “Digital Natives” Value the Internet more than television or radio [1] Millennials make up around ¼ of the entire US population

Born 1980s & 1990s

Grew up with technology and the Web

“Digital Natives”

Value the Internet more than television or radio [1]

Millennials make up around ¼ of the entire US population

Millennial traits Content creators Format agnostic Nomadic usage of technology Technology veterans Multi-taskers Experiential Collaborative & social High expectations

Content creators

Format agnostic

Nomadic usage of technology

Technology veterans

Multi-taskers

Experiential

Collaborative & social

High expectations

UK teens online “ New research released today by MTV and Microsoft reveals that young people in the UK spend 34 hours online each week, almost the equivalent of an average working week, with eight in ten 16-24 year olds (80%) logging on to the internet daily and claiming that they can’t live without their computer.” PublicTechnology.net article (Aug 2007)

“ New research released today by MTV and Microsoft reveals that young people in the UK spend 34 hours online each week, almost the equivalent of an average working week, with eight in ten 16-24 year olds (80%) logging on to the internet daily and claiming that they can’t live without their computer.”

Social networking (UK) “More than 90%* of UK teenagers have used a social networking website and more than half use them because their friends do.” (*93%) The Guardian: Most teens are MySpacers (May 2007)

“More than 90%* of UK teenagers have used a social networking website and more than half use them because their friends do.”

(*93%)

Teens and technology (UK) daily mobile phone use is up 58% on 2002 more than 75% of 11 year olds have their own TV, games console and mobile phone 15% of 13-15 year olds and 7% of 10 year olds have their own webcam BBC: Britain enjoying 'digital boom' (Aug 2007)

daily mobile phone use is up 58% on 2002

more than 75% of 11 year olds have their own TV, games console and mobile phone

15% of 13-15 year olds and 7% of 10 year olds have their own webcam

“social website for over-50s”

US online demographics Pew Report: Generations Online (Oct 2007)

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 ”

“...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.”

Library 2.0 Use of “2.0” technologies (blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, social networking, etc) Actively involve users in developments User centric initiatives “Libraries without walls” Delivering services to where you users are The “Read/Write Library” Liberate your data & make it work harder

Use of “2.0” technologies (blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, social networking, etc)

Actively involve users in developments

User centric initiatives

“Libraries without walls”

Delivering services to where you users are

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

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?

Wanted: Librarian 2.0

Some Library 2.0 examples… … which we don’t really have time for!

Topeka and Shawnee County

Westmont Public Library, Illinois

Westmont Public Library, Illinois

Westmont Public Library, Illinois

Stevens County Rural Library, Washington

Stevens County Rural Library, Washington

Flickr – 365 Library Days Project

Thomas Ford Memorial Library, Illinois

Thomas Ford Memorial Library, Illinois

“I’ve gotta say folks, video games in libraries is absolutely what it is cracked up to be. The fact that it is an excellent way to meet the cultural needs of our young patrons was demonstrated to me over and over by the number of people that came and their enthusiasm.” Thomas Ford Memorial Library, Illinois Aaron Schmidt, walking paper

“I’ve gotta say folks, video games in libraries is absolutely what it is cracked up to be. The fact that it is an excellent way to meet the cultural needs of our young patrons was demonstrated to me over and over by the number of people that came and their enthusiasm.”

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)

“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.”

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

Rock the Shelves 2005

www.flickr.com/photos/michaelcasey/sets/632151/

Hennepin County Library

Hennepin County Library

Ann Arbor District Library

Ann Arbor District Library

Ann Arbor District Library

Charlotte & Mecklenburg County Public Library

Charlotte & Mecklenburg County Public Library

Hartlepool Borough Council Libraries

Cheshire Public Library, Connecticut

Glasgow University Library

University of Huddersfield, UK

McCracken County Public Library, Kentucky

St. Joseph County Public Library, Indiana

Libraries in Second Life

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”

“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?”

“ I borrowed a book 3 years ago that had an orange cover… can I borrow it again?”

Web 2.0 …Library 2.0 …New Stuff! Change is the only constant What will happen if we/you don’t “go with the flow”, evolve, and continually adapt your services to the needs of all of your users? Is there really such a thing as a librarian who doesn’t want to learn new things?!? Take risks… take the time to play… think big… and, above all, have fun!

Change is the only constant

What will happen if we/you don’t “go with the flow”, evolve, and continually adapt your services to the needs of all of your users?

Is there really such a thing as a librarian who doesn’t want to learn new things?!?

Take risks… take the time to play… think big… and, above all, have fun!

That’s all Folks! Thank You! http://slideshare.net/daveyp