Libraries Do Matter: Enhancing Traditional Services with Library 2.0

Libraries Do Matter Enhancing Traditional Services with Library 20

Diana Sachs-Silveira Tampa Bay Library Consortium

Chad Mairn St Petersburg College Libraries

VIP Library WorkshopMay 11 2007

httpdeliciousVIP2007Chad_Diana

Introducing Chadrsquos amp Dianarsquos avatars hellip

Objectives

bull Discover what WebLibrary 20 is bull Learn how it can be used to

promote traditional library servicesbull Explore other technological trends

that are positively impacting libraries

bull Highlight new library roles taking place in a new technological landscape

bull Q amp A

The Machine is Using Us

What is Web 20

Stabilo Bossrsquo pictures shared through Creative Commons License

The Many Forms of Social Computing

copy Forrester Research Source Social Computing ndash How Networks Erode Institutional Power and What to Do About It 13 February 2006 (httpwwwforrestercomResearchDocument072113877200html)

[Thanks Robert Berkman for this slide]

Online Photos

Flickr tabblo scrapblog

Blogshttpwwwlibdexcomweblogshtml

RSS

Wikis

Video

Audio

Podcastinghttpwwwpodcastnethttpwwwipodderorg

MP3 +

Web-Based Communities

bull Online social networks

bull People work together

bull Giving a ldquoVoice of the voicelessrdquo

bull Integrate several technologies

Online Communities

bull MySpace FaceBook Friendster Gather Ning

Chatting

bull Yahoo MSN Google

bull Meebo Trillianbull Ask a Librarian

bull 60 of teens and young adults on the Internet use chat ldquooftenrdquo

bull Allows for file sharing conferencing and VoIP

bull Nearly 6 in 10 use IM to communicate at work

Folksonomy or tagging

bull AKA lsquotaggingrsquo bull Vocabulary

Cloudsbull Users add

valuebull Harnessing

Collective Intelligence of Users

Technorati delicious LibraryThing Reddit

Gaming

Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game

bull MMORPG or RPGs bull WoW has 8 million

subscribers world-wide

bull Nearly 40 percent of gamers are female and nearly a quarter of gamers are over the age of 40

Second Life

bull 3+ million people on 2nd Life

bull Integrate Chat blogs and often own economies

Teen Nights with Gaming

Teen Night at Chesterfield Library

Online Documents

EditGrid Google

What is news

Portability

RemixingMashupshttpwwwprogrammablewebcommashups

httpwwwtaliscomtdninnovationdir

Are libraries still relevant

Compare these mission statements

OCLC

To further access to the worldrsquos information and reduce library costs by

offering services for libraries and their users

Google

Organize the worlds information and make itand make it

universally accessible and useful

Source ldquoTechnology Curves and Libraries (or) The ldquoHurriederrdquo We Go The ldquoBehinderrdquo We Getrdquo by Richard Madaus

Is this our future Is the Machine UsingUs

Library 20bull ldquoLibrary 20 is not about technologyrdquobull ldquoLibrary 20 is all about technologyrdquo

bull ldquoLibrary 20 is a path towards improvement of servicesrdquobull ldquoLibrary 20 means abandoning services that serve small

or unimportant groupsrdquo

bull ldquoLibrary 20 is a paradigm shift that changes almost everything in a libraryrdquo

bull ldquoLibrary 20 is hype that can interfere with the sound ideals involvedrdquo

Source lsquoCites amp Insightsrsquo Crawford at Large Vol 6 No 2 Midwinter 2006 p4Thanks again Robert Berkman

Some Examples

bull Blogs Darien CT LibraryGuilford Free Library BlogGeorgia State University Library Subject Specific Blogs

bull Wikis University of Connecticut Staff Wiki

bull Podcasts Cheshire Public Library Podcast

Some Examplesbull Social TaggingUniversity of Pennsylvania PennTags Sample Record St Petersburg College Library on LibraryThing Interactive Book ReviewsGuilford Technical Community College on LibraryThing

bull RSS FeedsHennepin County Library EventsKenton Public Library New Books by SubjectSouthington Library and MuseumU Manitoba healthscience library feeds(LisFeeds Aggregated collection of library feeds)

The above examples courtesy of Jenny Levine The Shifted Librarian (httpwwwtheshiftedlibrariancom)

Libraries must hellipbull Be noticed

bull Be selective

bull Continue collaborating ldquoWisdom of crowdsrdquo

bull Help clear ldquodata smogrdquo (ie information overload)

bull Focus on the user

The Future Web 30

bull Technology trends are fast

bull Internet Operating System

bull Next Generation Library Catalog

bull Content Management Systems (eg Joomla Drupal)

bull Reference 20 = Ms Dewey

bull Keep our focus on the user

The Future is now

What Nowbull Play Learn

bull TBLCrsquos 20 Challenge

bull Share ideas and play nicely with others

bull Read Blogs and blog your experiences

bull Think outside the box

Check out and add to

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Chad MairnSt Petersburg College mairnchadspcollegeedu (727) 3417181GoogleTalk chadmairn

Diana Sachs-SilveiraTBLC sachsdtblcorg (813)622-8252 ext 234Yahoo ID diverdee987

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