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1. Slide 1: Web 2.0 & Library 2.0 …it’s okay to play! Dave Pattern Library Systems Manager University of Huddersfield d.c.pattern@hud.ac.uk http://slideshare.net/daveyp
2. Slide 2: 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/
3. Slide 3: Question time! • Do you regularly use a mobile phone? http://www.flickr.com/photos/ari/362924278/
4. Slide 4: Question time! • do U snd txt msgz? http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessicamills/231072148/
5. Slide 5: Question time! • Do you have your own MP3 player? http://www.flickr.com/photos/nez/268673268/
6. Slide 6: Question time! • Do have broadband internet access at home? http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacksonlee/6222523/
7. Slide 7: Question time! • Do you have wireless internet access at home? http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/113353477/
8. Slide 8: 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/
9. Slide 9: 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/
10. Slide 10: Question time! • Do have your own weblog or contribute to one? http://www.blogger.com
11. Slide 11: Question time! • Do you regularly read other peoples weblogs and/or leave comments? http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001325.html
12. Slide 12: Question time! • Do you regularly use Wikipedia? …or should that be “Will you admit to using Wikipedia?”
13. Slide 13: Question time! • Have you ever edited a page on Wikipedia? …if not, why not?
14. Slide 14: Question time! • Do you regularly use instant messaging or online chat? – e.g. AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN, gTalk, Jabber, ICQ, Meebo, etc
15. Slide 15: Question time! • Do you have a games console at home? http://www.flickr.com/photos/jstar/336785888/
16. Slide 16: 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/
17. Slide 18: Web 1.0
18. Slide 19: 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”
19. Slide 20: 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”
20. Slide 21: 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)
21. Slide 22: 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
22. Slide 23: Two point “Oh” • Evolutionary rather than revolutionary
23. Slide 24: a Web 2.0 example…
24. Slide 25: Flickr
25. Slide 26: Flickr
26. Slide 27: Flickr
27. Slide 28: Flickr – image pools
28. Slide 29: Flickr - tags
29. Slide 30: Flickr - clusters
30. Slide 31: Flickr - geotagging
31. Slide 32: Flickr – mashups • Flickr Services API • Moo cards • Flickr toys • Retrievr • Colr Pickr
32. Slide 33: 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
33. Slide 34: So, who’s doing all this stuff?
34. Slide 35: 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
35. Slide 36: Millennial traits • Content creators • Format agnostic • Nomadic usage of technology • Technology veterans • Multi-taskers • Experiential • Collaborative & social • High expectations
36. Slide 37: 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)
37. Slide 38: 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)
38. Slide 39: 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)
39. Slide 40: “social website for over-50s”
40. Slide 41: US online demographics Pew Report: Generations Online (Oct 2007)
41. Slide 43: 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”
42. Slide 44: 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
43. Slide 45: 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
44. Slide 46: Librarian 2.0?
45. Slide 47: Wanted: Librarian 2.0
46. Slide 48: Some Library 2.0 examples… …which we don’t really have time for!
47. Slide 49: Topeka and Shawnee County
48. Slide 50: Westmont Public Library, Illinois
49. Slide 51: Westmont Public Library, Illinois
50. Slide 52: Westmont Public Library, Illinois
51. Slide 53: Stevens County Rural Library, Washington
52. Slide 54: Stevens County Rural Library, Washington
53. Slide 55: Flickr – 365 Library Days Project
54. Slide 56: Thomas Ford Memorial Library, Illinois
55. Slide 57: Thomas Ford Memorial Library, Illinois
56. Slide 58: 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.” Aaron Schmidt, walking paper
57. Slide 59: Thomas Ford Memorial Library, Illinois
58. Slide 60: 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)
59. Slide 61: Gwinnett County Public Library • Rock the Shelves 2005 – www.flickr.com/photos/michaelcasey/sets/632151/
60. Slide 62: Hennepin County Library
61. Slide 63: Hennepin County Library
62. Slide 64: Ann Arbor District Library
63. Slide 65: Ann Arbor District Library
64. Slide 66: Ann Arbor District Library
65. Slide 67: Charlotte & Mecklenburg County Public Library
66. Slide 68: Charlotte & Mecklenburg County Public Library
67. Slide 69: Hartlepool Borough Council Libraries
68. Slide 70: Cheshire Public Library, Connecticut
69. Slide 71: Glasgow University Library
70. Slide 72: University of Huddersfield, UK
71. Slide 73: McCracken County Public Library, Kentucky
72. Slide 74: St. Joseph County Public Library, Indiana
73. Slide 75: Libraries in Second Life
74. Slide 76: Play and experimentation
75. Slide 77: 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”
76. Slide 78: Admit it, haven’t you wanted to do this in your library…
77. Slide 79: Huddersfield Public Library
78. Slide 80: Somewhere over the rainbow?
79. Slide 81: 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?”
80. Slide 82: 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!
81. Slide 83: That’s all Folks! Thank You! http://slideshare.net/daveyp