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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
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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 isposted
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 Libraryhttp://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/entry2801866.shtml
(Remember these?) The Five Laws of Library Science • 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