This document discusses the evolution of information literacy beyond the concept of Library 2.0. It argues that Library 2.0 was an overhyped idea that confused trends in web tools with the core concept. While social media tools saw early adoption among students, academics and researchers were slower to engage. The document notes that information literacy is now focused on skills like evaluating large amounts of information from search results and mobile access is increasingly important. It suggests information literacy must adapt to these changes by guiding students on skills like reflection and contemplation to process online information and that libraries are well positioned to help with this evolution.

1. Information Literacy beyond Library
2.0
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Peter Godwin
University of Bedfordshire

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3. “Library 2 0 was nothing new really and the concept got
Library 2.0
confused with lists of trendy Web 2.0 tools.”
“The Web generation was an over hyped idea ”
The over-hyped idea.
“Information literacy is always about academic librarians
chasing after problems and creating a niche for themselves ”
themselves.
“Nobody knows the answers about social media : we don’t even
know the questions yet ”
yet...

4. Information Literacy beyond Library 2.0
What s
What’s the story?
What’s changed now?
Where
Wh are we h d d?
headed?

6. What’s the story?

7. http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/4291796039/D
avid Methuen in the play "Monday Next", Theatre Royal, Hobart,
ca. 1950-1952 / photographer unknown

8. So what was Library 2.0??
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationaalarchief/3236806056/sizes/m/in/photostream/

10. http://www.flickr.com/photos/wonderlane/37529792/sizes/m/

12. Before the Web generation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/3926512754/Student working in
Statistics Machine Room, 1964
Photograph taken during the making of a BBC documentary. http://www.flickr.com/photos/floridamemory/3904059792/sizes/o/

13. They text and
share music
http://www.flickr.com/photos/larskflem/62174131/

14. www.flickr.com/photos/36330825983@N01/493046910
The nerds are still the minority

15. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mythoto/1234638761/sizes/m/
http://www flickr com/photos/mythoto/1234638761/sizes/m/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dietpoison/76086767/sizes/m/

16. But they are reluctant to share
http://www.flickr.com/photos/epigraf/4043438176

17. Have academics engaged
with 2.0?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sienacollege/3984592916/sizes/m/

18. http://www.flickr.com/photos/marjorie/150307032/sizes/m/i
Or researchers?

19. http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoomar/196629576/sizes/m/ Or Librarians??
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20. Did it help?
Or complicate?
What did it mean?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/faraz27989/513729868/sizes/m

21. Success stories
Flickr
RSS
Delicious
D li i
Wikipedia
LibraryThing
Screencasts
Podcasts
YouTube
Referencing (Zotero)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/123493345/#/
Visualisation (Wordle)
Facebook

23. What’s
changed
now?
?
Portrait of Cab Calloway, New York, N.Y.(?), ca. Jan.
1947] (
] (LOC))
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/4843
122063/

25. Is there an elephant in the room?
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26. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/3926511654/ LSE 1964
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cs Machine Room, 1964
Students working. Photograph taken during the making of
a BBC documentary.

27. http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottywz/2565826346/sizes/m/in/photostream/

28. It’s b Blackberry thumb
I ’ about Bl kb h b or crackberry thumbs......
kb h b
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30. http://www.flickr.com/photos/centre4museology/4552307770/sizes/m/

32. Mobile and social
http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/2891883172/

33. Where are we
headed?

35. Is IL too
academic?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcbarnicle/4030630210
/

36. What’s
happened to
Information
Literacy?
Li ?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20149359@N00/1795028581

38. http://www.flickr.com/photos/librarianbyday/4530587687/sizes/m/in/photostream/

39. What are the important
new tunes?
Portrait of Dardanelle, Washington, D.C., between 1938 and 1948] (LOC)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/4843124889/

40. “Students struggled with processing results and finding the
Students
good, relevant stuff they need ... they may lack the skills for
se ect g t e ost e eva t esu ts they ee o solving
selecting the most relevant results t ey need for so v g
information problems in their daily lives.”
How college students use the Web to conduct everyday life research
by Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg.
First Monday, Volume 16, Number 4 - 4 April 2011
http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/3484/2857

41. Less about search and more about
sifting and evaluation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daviddehoey/4320927690/

42. “The web provides little
eb pro ides
encouragement or opportunity for
quieter, more attentive ways of
thinking, such as contemplation,
reflection, introspection. Those ways of
thinking used to be considered the
essence of the human intellect. Now
they’re seen as dispensable.”
Nicholas Carr: The Age of Perpetual Distraction
Project Information Literacy, "Smart Talks," no. 6,
April 4, 2011

43. We will still
be guides!
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44. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nypl/3110130836 /

45. Schools t High Education
S h l to Higher Ed ti
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7525216/ 29514/sizes/m/

46. http://www.flickr.com/photos/garry61/3191250682/sizes/m/in/photostream/
moonbow=rainbow at night by Garry
http://www.flickr.com/photos/garry61/3191250682/sizes/m/in/phot
ostream/
moonbow=rainbow at night by Garry

47. http://www.flickr.com/photos/babycreative/3655604760/sizes/m/in/photostream/

48. Information Literacy
beyond Library 2.0
It s
It’s social
It’s increasingly mobile
Technologies hift but
T h l i shift b t
people adapt uneqally
The Ti f Lib i
Th Time for Libraries can
be NOW!

49. Mobiles –the ultimate portable computer
the