Jadranka Lasic-Lazic [email protected]Mihaela Banek Zorica [email protected]Sonja Spiranec [email protected]Department of Information sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Universtiy of Zagreb, Croatia School librarians coping with electronic environment
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widespread use of social softwareCurran et al., 2007
Library 2.0 concept
1. reflects user-centeredness;
2. is related to multi-media environments and communication channels;
3. provides the customer with the experience of social presence and enables interaction with librarians and other users;
4. is communally innovative, i.e. works as a community service adaptable to change and allows users to initiate and guide this change of services related to seeking and utilizing information
Librarians at higher education institutions find Web 2.0 tools to be potentially useful in their libraries.
Lasic-Lazic, Banek Zorica, Bubas 2009.
Results
1. most of students were familiar with
popular tools/services like wikis,
blogs, YouTube and
MySpace/Facebook
2. less than 50% had more than scarce
knowledge of a Flickr, Delicious or
even Second Life.
http://clifmims.com/blog/archives/468
Curriculum change
Department of Information Sciences,
Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences, University of Zagreb
Two new courses introduced:
Information literacy (theoretical approach)
E-learning (practical)
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(FHSS)
Department of Information Science
Second life
developed in 2003 by Linden Labs
client program -Second Life Viewer
more than 9 million Residents
MUVE (Multi-User Virtual Environments)
2 Grids Second Life
Teen Second life (teens 13-17)
Communication – chat & voice
One avatar or group
Conferences
Classes
Building
Building
Prims
Simple objects
Complex objects
Scripting
interaction
Education & Culture
many universities, colleges, schools and other educational institutions researching the use of Second Life as an environment for teaching and learning Open University (UK), Princeton, MIT, University of Derby
(UK), Vassar, Harvard, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ohio University, New York University, Australian Film Television and Radio School, etc.
Cybrary Islands – Library Alliance
Second life library 2.0
Eduisland, InfoIsland
Museums - International Space Flight museum, Louvre