The Art of Library 2.0

Heather Davis

Lake Washington Technical CollegeTechnology Center

Friday, August 22, 2008

A Wordle created from xBlog: The Visual Thinking Weblog

The Changing User• Immediate access to information

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• Constant updates

• Web-based information storage and retrieval

The Changing User• Social networking

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• Self-publishing

• Community websites and content management

The Changing User• Folksonomies

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• Personalization and customization

Opportunities of Library 2.0

• Crowdsourcing• Mashups• Interdisciplinary information sharing

• The long tail

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“Library 2.0 is a model for constant and purposeful change.”

Library 2.0: A Guide to Participatory Library Service

Opportunities of Library 2.0

“Increasingly, it is the ‘third place’ (the first and second places being home and work) where people connect with friends, watch television, listen to music, build a sense of togetherness

with people across the world, and provide expressions of ourselves which are themselves

forms of communication. As more people turn to the Internet for professional and social purposes, we are seeing new means of communication, new places to communicate, and new avenues of interaction

unfold at a rapid pace.”

Social Networking, the “Third Place,” and the Evolution of Communication

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“Third Place” – Internet

Tools and Resources

• Social networks• Blogs• Wikis/Forums• Podcasts/Feeds• Instant messaging/Chat• Social tagging/bookmarking

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What other libraries are doing

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• University of Washington, Art Library

Social BookmarkingSocial Bookmarking

What other libraries are doing

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• A.A. Lemieux Library, Seattle University

Social Networking GatewaySocial Networking Gateway

What other libraries are doing

• Pacific Northwest College of Art, Charles Voorhies Fine Art Library

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BlogsBlogs

RSS FeedsRSS Feeds

Social NetworkingSocial Networking

Applied Design Library 1.0Traditional Tools

• Books• Databases• Images• Online Reference• Web Resources

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Applied Design Library 2.0Next Generation Tools

• Information and resource commons

• Online portfolios• Project management• Online image hosting• Media transmission and sharing• Instant messaging• Podcasting or screencasting

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ConclusionKeeping pace with users

• Changes in information transmission

• Understand the users• Generate and maintain metrics

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BibliographyCasey, Michael E. and Laura C. Savastinuk. Library 2.0: A Guide to Participatory Library

Service. Medford: Information Today, Inc., 2007.

Ibid. “Library 2.0: service for the next generation library,” in Library Journal, September 1, 2006.

Courtney, Nancy. Library 2.0 and Beyond: Innovative Technologies and Tomorrow’s User. Westport: Libraries Unlimited, 2007.

O’Reilly, Tim. “What is web 2.0: design patterns and business models for the next generation of software.” http://www.oreillynet.com.

Smith, Rachel. “Social networking, the ‘third place,’ and the evolution of communication.” New Media Consortium. http://www.nmc.org/evolution-communication.

Rosenfeld, Louis and Peter Morville. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. Sebastopol: O’Reilly Media, Inc., 1998.

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