Library 2.0

2.0 and youEllen Mizio and Diana Silveira

What is 2.0?

• Sharing

• Collaboration

• Learning

• Interaction

• Creation

Web 2.0

Stabilo Boss’ pictures shared through Creative Commons License

Blog

1. Blogs are …

• web pages that are organized by dated entries and resemble an online diary for the world to read.

• an easy way to exchange and present information.

• about three things: “Frequency, Brevity and Personality“ [Source: Evan Williams, the creator of Blogger].

• extremely popular! 39 % of Internet users, i.e., nearly 57 million American adults, read blogs. [Source: Lenhart & Fox].

Create a library blog to …

• promote library events. • connect to your community. • support devoted library users.• reach out to potential users.• say something interesting. • allow your patrons to say something interesting.• enhance book discussions.• provide book reviews/recommendations.• create a literary guide. • write a library newspaper. • revisit and perhaps revise work.• interact with your colleagues. • be creative, critically think, and write about issues interesting to

you.• accomplish almost anything you want.

5. Podcasting

MP3 +

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Podcast -

• a digital media file (e.g., MP3), or a series of such files, that is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds (e.g., RSS) for playback on portable media players and personal computers. (Source: Wikipedia)

• You can download the media file[s] and listen to them on your computer.

• You can subscribe to a feed and have updated content come to you – like a multimedia magazine delivered to your home once a new issue is published.

• Some podcasts have a corresponding web page or a blog for show notes and other applicable information.

• In 2005, the New Oxford American Dictionary rated ‘podcast’ the Word of the Year!

Why listen to and/or create a podcast?

• Why listen to or create anything?• Learn something.• Teach something.• Make lectures/discussions more portable.• Promote events, connect with your community,

and reach out to people with similar interests.• Provide reviews/recommendations for books,

other podcasts etc.• Record events and share with people who

were unable to attend it.• Accomplish almost anything you want.

YouTube

MySpace,

FaceBook,

LinkedIn

Wikis

Online Collaboration

Folksonomy or tagging

• AKA ‘tagging’ • Vocabulary

Clouds• Users add

value• Harnessing

Collective Intelligence of Users

What are tags?

• Keywords/descriptors to describe digital objects

• Applied by users of the content

• Keyword or category label. Tags help you find photos, etc. which have something in common.

Let’s do some tagging

What tags did you give the photo?

• Cats

• Dogs

• Family

• Papa

• Food

• Gris

• “Cats”

• “Together”

Chatting

• Yahoo, MSN, Google

• Meebo, Trillian• Ask a Librarian• Skype

• 60% of teens and young adults on the Internet use chat “often”

• Allows for file sharing, conferencing and VoIP

• Nearly 6 in 10 use IM to communicate at work

Virtual Worlds• Second Life• 8.5 million users with

1.6 logging in during the last 60 days.

• Other worlds for teens And Kids!

• More and more virtual worlds

Virtual Worlds

• Second Life (SL) began in 2003 and has had significant growth over the years (ca. 5 million residents)

• Museums, libraries, schools, businesses, homes, etc. are “in” SL.

• Avatar = digital identity that represents you in the virtual world.

• ActiveWorlds, Meebo Rooms etc.

What is going on in there?

Alliance Library System in SecondLifeVirtual Bibliographic Instruction (VBI) and Interactive Reference at Eastern University

Gaming

• Want to become a leader? Try MORPG

• The average gamer is….

RSS

RSS?! Readers

RSS Feeds on Webpages

Now?

• Visit http://

• Play!

• Create!

• Collaborate!

• Share!

Questions/Comments! Contact Us @ TBLC!!