The User Is Not Remote! Library 2.0 and Library Services INFOLINK Spring Membership Meeting Mary Page mspage@rutgers.edu May 16, 2007
Web 2.0 Second generation web services Social networking: blogs, wikis, tagging Emphasis on collaboration and sharing Convenience is king Leverages “wisdom of the crowd” Web 2.0: Phrase coined by Tim O’Reilly
Web 2.0 Available anywhere, anytime Collaborative Convenient “People are in fact kind of a killer app.” Tim O’Reilly
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
Web 1.0
Web 2.0
MP3 (pre-IPod)
IPods
Britannica Online
Wikipedia
Personal websites
Blogs
Documentation
Wikis
Directories (taxonomy)
Tags (folksonomy)
Stickiness
Syndication
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
Library 2.0 Web 2.0 tools to deliver library services Blogs and Wikis RSS Feeds MySpace/Facebook Social Bookmarks Tagging
Library 2.0 Blogs and Wikis Ann Arbor District Library - News http://www.aadl.org/taxonomy/term/60
Princeton Public Book Lovers Wiki
http://booklovers.pbwiki.com/5%20Star%20Revie
Kansas State University
http://ksulib.typepad.com/talking/
Library 2.0 RSS Feeds: Really Simple Syndication Users subscribe to blogs using Bloglines, Google Reader, etc. Links to your feeds when new content is posted
Library 2.0 RSS Feeds University College, Dublin. Science Libraries http://ucdscience.blogspot.com/
K-State New Book Feed http://www.lib.ksu.edu/services/newbooks/
University of N. Carolina - Greensboro Online Resources with RSS Feeds http://library.uncg.edu/dbs/vdbsrss-index.asp
Library 2.0 MySpace / Facebook Online communities - chat, share info The new email? Brooklyn College Library
http://www.myspace.com/brooklyncollegelibrary
Library 2.0 del.icio.us Social bookmarking - store and share A collection of favorites - yours and everyone else's Access from anywhere Organize with TAGS - your own keywords
http://del.icio.us/
Library 2.0 PennTags Like del.icio.us, but within Penn community Users can tag subjects, projects, websites in the Penn library RSS feeds from specific tags http://tags.library.upenn.edu/
Library 1.0
Library 2.0
Read-only catalog
User tags, comments, reviews (think Amazon)
Print newsletter
Library blog with RSS feed
Library instruction
Intuitive services
Bring them in
Go to them (think mobile)
http://freerangelibrarian.com/2006/10/l1_vs_l2_adapted_from_oreilly.php
Web 2.0 & Library 2.0 The path of least resistance saves time The user is not remote You are your website Perpetual beta is perfect
Web 2.0 "We can't expect consumers to come to us. It's arrogant for any media company to assume that. Quincy Smith, the president of CBS Interactive, told the WSJ. http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/05/14/publiceye/entry28 01866.shtml
(Remember these ?)
The Five Laws of Library Science 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Books are for use. Every person his or her book. Every book its reader. Save the time of the reader. The library is a growing organism. 1931
Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan (1892-1972)
Thank You!
Mary Page mspage@rutgers.edu 732-445-5894