Library 2.0

Slide 1: Library 2.0 SCKLS Technology Training Day Wichita, KS 2 November 2006

Slide 2: 1996

Slide 3: 2006

Slide 4: What is Library 2.0 • Coined by Michael Casey on his Library Crunch blog in 2005. • “With Library 2.0, library services are frequently evaluated and updated to meet the changing needs of library users. Library 2.0 also calls for libraries to encourage user participation and feedback in the development and maintaining of library services. The active and empowered library user is a significant component of Library 2.0. With information and ideas flowing in both directions – from the library to the user and from the user to the library – library services have the ability to evolve and improve on a constant and rapid basis. The user is participant, co-creator, builder and consultant – whether the product is virtual or physical.” -- Wikipedia

Slide 5: Library 2.0 Meme Map

Slide 6: Perpetual Beta • If it isn’t beta, it isn’t cool • Except for flickr which is now in “gamma”

Slide 8: Online applications • Why buy and install software? • If the patron uses an online application, there’s no compatibility issues.

Slide 9: Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Slide 10: Grab the Long Tail

Slide 12: Marketing • Librarians suck at marketing

Slide 13: http://www.flickr.com/photos/amiebea/146549252/

Slide 14: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandcastlematt/222922109/

Slide 15: Marketing, contd. • Give yourself permission to suck • Give your patrons the megaphone • They’ll market for you • Contributed content

Slide 16: Contributed Content http://www.flickr.com/photos/tkb/57134005/

Slide 17: Blogs

Slide 18: Western Springs History

Slide 19: WPOPAC

Slide 20: Wikipedia

Slide 21: Social Software • “Social software enables people to rendezvous, connect or collaborate through computer-mediated communication and to form online communities.” --Wikipedia

Slide 22: flickr

Slide 25: YouTube

Slide 27: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronschmidt/271553300/

Slide 28: MySpace

Slide 30: LibraryThing

Slide 32: del.icio.us

Slide 33: Go Where the Users Are

Slide 34: IM & SMS • A 2005 report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project called “Teens and Technology” found that teenagers preferred new technology, like instant messaging or text messaging, for talking to friends and use e-mail to communicate with “old people.” • E-mail is “too confusing”

Slide 35: meebo me

Slide 36: Google Send To Phone

Slide 37: Skype

Slide 38: SecondLife http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/260313781/

Slide 39: Break Down Barriers http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/194802572/

Slide 40: Is Your Library a Nanny State? http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/215520668/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/librarianinblack/246133224/

Slide 41: http://www.flickr.com/photos/44494328@N00/235382276/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/124453103/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/86882370@N00/230893520/

Slide 42: http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/215521011/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/223839049/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/asulibraries/231161986/

Slide 44: “It’s the simplest lesson of the Internet: it’s the people stupid. We don’t have computers because we want to interact with machines; we have them because they allow us to communicate more effectively with other people.” ─ Douglas Rushkoff, Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out