#19 - Library 2.0
Today we focus on the 2.0 part of Learning 2.0. The 2.0 is, you may have guessed, what links our program to the broader entity known as Web 2.0. The 2.0 also links our program to what many in the library world are calling Library 2.0.
A popular definition of Library 2.0 is provided by Sarah Houghton:
Library 2.0 simply means making your library’s space (virtual and physical) more interactive, collaborative, and driven by community needs. Examples of where to start include blogs, gaming nights for teens, and collaborative photo sites. The basic drive is to get people back into the library by making the library relevant to what they want and need in their daily lives…to make the library a destination and not an afterthought.
Library 2.0 is also big on offering customization - new services and/or reworked existing services should meet our patrons in their spaces (aka their computers, their cell phones, their blackberries, etc.) as well as in our spaces (aka our library buildings and websites).
Some argue that Library 2.0 is nothing more than a convenient catch phrase for new technology. Others say it's a semantic waste of time - libraries have always been about collaboration and customer service.
There's been lots (and lots) written about Library 2.0 in Library Journals and the blogsphere. So much that we're going to ask you to read from just 1 source - the OCLC Next Space Newsletter. They recently published a collection of short articles under the banner "Where will the next generation Web take libraries?"
And now, more formally, today's Discovery Exercise.
- Read the introduction
- Read at least 3 of the 5 articles (or all 5) - these are:
- Away from Icebergs
- Into a new world of librarianship
- To more powerful ways to cooperate
- To better bibliographic services
- To a temporary place in time - Let us know what you think - blog a bit about Library 2.0
Next up: Online applications and tools...
2 comments:
We are shifting--but maybe more as a reaction than proactively.
We're honing down the hardback reference collection since we have access to so many current sites
we do a lot of one-on-one training with folks on the computers
but, as my daughter pointed out to me--libraries aren't easy to use-- to even use the computers you have to have a library card...if the staff isn't friendly people don't feel welcome to ask questions...etc...
OMG! The Librarian in Black commented on my blog posting (describing her program at the WLA conference). This is so neat!!
http://acrossanddown.blogspot.com/2007/04/library-20.html
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