arclib - web 2.0 and library 2.0
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Presentation given to the ARCLib 2008 Conference in LiverpoolTRANSCRIPT
Web 2.0 and Library 2.0
It’s Okay to Play!
Dave Pattern, Library Systems ManagerUniversity of Huddersfield
[email protected]://slideshare.net/daveyp
Contents• Question time!• Web 2.0• Web 2.0 example – Flickr• Is there such a thing as a “free
lunch”?• Library 2.0• Examples of Library 2.0
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Question time!• Do you regularly
use a mobile phone?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ari/362924278/
Question time!• do U snd txt msgz?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessicamills/231072148/
Question time!• Do you have your
own MP3 player?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nez/268673268/
Question time!• Do have
broadband internet access at home?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacksonlee/6222523/
Question time!• Do you have
wireless internet access at home?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/113353477/
Question time!• Do you regularly
use your home PC or laptop for more than an hour each evening?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardholden/340601444/
Question time!• Do you regularly
use your home PC or laptop for 2 or 3 hours an evening?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronjacobs/64368770/
Question time!• Do have your own
weblog / blog?
http://www.blogger.com
Question time!• Do you regularly
read other peoples weblogs and/or contribute to other weblogs?
http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001325.html
Question time!• Do you regularly
use Wikipedia?
Question time!• Have you ever
edited a page on Wikipedia?
Question time!• Do you regularly
use instant messaging or online chat?– e.g. AIM, Yahoo!
Messenger, MSN, gTalk, Jabber, ICQ, Meebo, etc
http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch/en-GB/
Question time!• Do you have a
games console at home?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jstar/336785888/
Question time!• Do you play games
online and/or visit virtual worlds?– e.g. World of
Warcraft, Second Life, etc?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/christajoy42/354580876/
Web 1.0
Web 1.0• Slow access speeds (e.g. dial-up
modem)• Limited availability• Static web pages• Little interactivity• Mostly text …lots and lots of text …on
a grey background!• Web sites that would only work with
one type of web browser• The “Read Only Web”
Web 2.0
• Fast access speeds (e.g. broadband)• Wide availability (e.g. wireless)• Dynamic web pages• High interactivity• Lots of multimedia• Web sites that work on many devices
(e.g. PCs, mobile phones, etc)• The “Read/Write Web”
Super connected• Web 1.0 was about connecting computers
– dial-up → ISDN → broadband → wireless
• Web 2.0 is about connecting people– instant messaging & chatrooms– Skype & VoIP– social networking sites– virtual words (Second Life, Club Penguin, etc)– communities of common interest– microblogging (Twitter, etc)
Some Web 2.0 concepts• Applications delivered via a web
browser• Exploiting and (sometimes freely)
sharing data• User participation, empowerment, and
collaboration• Social networking• Communities of interest• Tagging and folksonomies• Mashups and other unintended uses
Two point “Oh”
• Evolutionary rather than revolutionary
Two Point “Ho-ho-ho”
a Web 2.0 example…
Flickr
Flickr
Flickr
Flickr – image pools
Flickr - tags
Flickr – tag cloud
Flickr - geotagging
Flickr & Libraries
Flickr & Libraries
Flickr – mashups
• Flickr Services API• Moo cards• Flickr toys• Retrievr• Colr Pickr• Multicolr Search Lab
Some facts and figures
• over 2 billion images on Flickr• 110 million MySpace accounts• 228 million edits on Wikipedia• 112 million weblogs tracked by
Technorati• 70 million Facebook accounts• 24 million books on LibraryThing• 7.2 million editors on Wikipedia• 2.4 million Wikipedia articles
So, who’s doing all this stuff?
US online demographics
Pew Report: Generations Online (Oct 2007)
“social website for over-50s”
Is there such a thing as a “free lunch”?
A Tale of Two Capacities
IBM Deskstar HDD• June 2000• £125• 20GB
£6.25 per GB£6,250 per TB
What will the price per GB/TB be in 2016?
Hitachi Deskstar HDD
• July 2008• £95• 1000GB (1TB)
£0.10 per GB£95 per TB
Freeconomics
• “Never in history has so much innovation been offered to so many for so little [cost]. The world’s most exciting businesses – technology, transport, media, medicine and finance – are increasingly defined by the word ‘free’ …… It is a difficult proposition to beat.”
– Michael Schrage, “Why giveaways are changing the rules
of business” (Financial Times, 2006)
Freeconomics
• His new ambition, [Ryanair's founder Michael O'Leary] told the Financial Times in 2004, was to give customers free tickets, perhaps even to pay them to fly. He predicted: “In a decade or so, airlines will pay travellers to distribute people around Europe.”
“The big giveaway” (Guardian, May 2008)
The BIG Questions
“What happens when things get free?”
– Professor Carver Mead, Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of
Technology
The BIG Questions
What happens to the music industry when I can fit every song ever recorded onto my MP3 player?
The BIG Questions
What happens when free wireless internet access is available everywhere?
The BIG Questions
What happens to my local library when I can fit every book ever written on my e-book reader?
2008 British Library/JISC Report
• The information environment in 2017:– electronic books, driven by consumer
demand, will finally become established as the primary format for educational textbooks and scholarly books and monographs, as well as reference formats.
– the most significant impact for research will not be how things get published, but how they get accessed.
http://www.bl.uk/news/pdf/googlegen.pdf
Library 2.0
• “...a loosely defined model for a modernized form of library service that reflects a transition within the library world in the way that services are delivered to users.
This includes ... an increased flow of information from the user back to the library.”
Wikipedia article for “Library 2.0”
Library 2.0
• Use of “2.0” technologies (blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, social networking, etc)
• Actively involve users in developments• User centric initiatives• Delivering services directly to users• Libraries without walls (“The Third Place
”)• The “Read/Write Library”• Liberate your data & make it work harder
Library 2.0
• Challenges us to:– be more flexible– embrace change– be more willing to take risks– give library staff the opportunity to play
and experiment with new technologies– go to where our users are, rather than
force them to come to us– give our users opportunities to
contribute
Librarian 2.0?
Librarian 2.0!
Charlotte & Mecklenburg County Public Library
“Creating the new library universe”
• National & State Libraries Australasia draft paper– access is our primary driver– digital is mainstream– no job will be unchanged– new web technologies and community digital content
are shaping user expectations and behaviour– some things we have always done, we will no longer
do– experimentation and risk are necessary– people want services and spaces to be welcoming
and easy to use, and they want to be independentThe Big Bang: Creating the new library universe
Play and experimentation
It’s okay to play!
• “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”– attrib: George Bernard Shaw
• 2007 Library & Information Show Workshop on Library 2.0 – Q: I don’t get paid to play, I get paid to
work– A: So, don’t call it “play”, call it
“professional development”
Admit it, haven’t you wanted
to do this in your library…
Huddersfield Public Library
Somewhere over the rainbow?
Never judge a book by it’s cover
• “I borrowed a book 3 years ago that had an orange cover… can I borrow it again?”
Delft Public Library
Delft Public Library
Delft Public Library
Delft Public Library
Seattle Public Library
Seattle Public Library
Glasgow Caledonian University
Glasgow Caledonian University
Sheffield Information Commons
data visualisations
eye candy
Keyword search visualisations
Library 2.0 in Libraries
(n.b. some are more “2.0” than others)
Topeka and Shawnee County
Westmont Public Library, Illinois
Westmont Public Library, Illinois
Westmont Public Library, Illinois
Ball State University, Indiana
Ball State University, Indiana
Ball State University, Indiana
Stevens County Rural Library, Washington
Flickr – 365 Library Days Project
Biblioteksvar, Norway
Thomas Ford Memorial Library, Illinois
Thomas Ford Memorial Library, Illinois
Dance your fines away…
• “Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting a teen librarian who keeps Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) set up all the time so she can invoke it as need be. For example, if a teen has overdue books, she will dance-off against the person, and if the teen wins, the librarian will waive the fines.” The Shifted Librarian: Gaming for Fines (Jan 2007)
Gwinnett County Public Library
• Rock the Shelves 2005– www.flickr.com/photos/michaelcasey/sets/6321
51/
University of Worcester, UK
University of Huddersfield, UK
Hennepin County Library
Hennepin County Library
Glasgow University Library
Ann Arbor District Library
Ann Arbor District Library
Ann Arbor District Library
Charlotte & Mecklenburg County Public Library
Hartlepool Borough Council Libraries
Cheshire Public Library, Connecticut
McCracken County Public Library, Kentucky
St. Joseph County Public Library, Indiana
Libraries in Second Life
104 slides?!?
• That’s more than enough!• I hope you’ve seen at least one thing
in this presentation that you’d like to explore further
Thank you!
http://slideshare.net/daveyp