This document summarizes Beth Gallaway's 2007 presentation on Web 2.0 library applications. It defines key concepts of Web 2.0 like its emphasis on user-generated content and harnessing collective intelligence. The presentation provides various examples of how libraries are using Web 2.0 technologies and platforms like social software, podcasting, tagging, and virtual worlds to engage users and share information in new ways.

1. Web 2.0 Library Applications Presented for MLTA March 2007 by Beth Gallaway informationgoddess29@gmail.com Presentation Links: http://del. icio .us/informationgoddess29/2.0

2. What is Web 2.0?

3. Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 Web 1.0 Static Webpages Passive Read View Find Text Impersonal Mobile Web 2.0 Dynamic Applications Interactive Do Create Remix Multimedia Custom On Demand

4. Web 2.0 Principles The Web as Platform Harnessing Collective Intelligence Data Driven Everything’s in Beta Light Programming Models Cross Platform/Cross Device Software Rich User Experience O'Reilly, Tim. “What Is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software” O’Reilly, 09/30/2005 http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6228

5. Web as Platform: IM Meebo Library Examples: MA Trial Court Law Libraries Metrowest MA Regional Library System Framingham Public Library

7. Web as Platform: Podcasting iTunes Library Examples: Memorial Hall Library, Andover WPI Library Audio to Go

8. Web as Platform: Social Software MySpace Library Examples: Haverhill Public Library Shrewsbury Public Library My Own Cafe

9. Web as Platform: Virtual 3-D Worlds Second Life Library Example: Alliance Library System/OPAL http://www.infoisland.org

11. Collective Intelligence: Blogs Blogger Library Examples: Newton Reads Malden Public Library Our Future

12. Collective Intelligence: Wikis PbWiki Library Examples: Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki MRLS Summer Reading Wiki Library Goddesses

14. Collective Intelligence: Tagging Flickr Library Examples: Peabody Institute Library CMRLS

15. Collective Intelligence: Tagging Del. icio .us Maimonides School Tyngsborough Public Library

16. Data Driven Amazon.com Mozilla Library Examples: Bartlett School Melrose Public Library MBLC Library Elf

17. Cross Platform/Cross Device Boston Public Library Digital Catalog

18. Rich User Experiences Ann Arbor District Library Brooklyn Branch, NYPL Imaginon Summer Reading Commercial Longfellow School Coulee Kids Podcast Libraries Using LibraryThing SuperPatron Sims Memorial Library

20. NOW WHAT? 5 Weeks to a Social Library Learning 2.0