Web 2.0 and Library 2.0

It’s Okay to Play!

Dave Pattern, Library Systems ManagerUniversity of Huddersfield

d.c.pattern@hud.ac.ukhttp://www.daveyp.com/blog/

Contents• Question time!• Web 2.0• Web 2.0 example - Flickr• Freeconomics• Library 2.0• Play and experimentation• Library 2.0 at Huddersfield

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Do you… ?

…regularly use a mobile phone?

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…do U snd txt msgz?

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…have you own a MP3 or portable media player?

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…have broadband at home?

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…have wireless access at home?

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…regularly use your home PC for an hour each evening?

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…regularly use your home PC for

2 or 3 hours each evening?

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…have you own blog?

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…read other people’s blogs and leave comments?

http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/10/26/multitouch-on-the-eeepc-1000h/

…use Wikipedia?

…edit pages on Wikipedia?

…use online chat?

…have a games console at home?

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…play online or visit virtual worlds?

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The Two Tims

• “Web 2.0 is the business revolution in computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.” (Tim O’Reilly, Dec 2006)

• “[Web 2.0 is] what the Web was supposed to be all along.” (Tim Berners-Lee, Aug 2006)

Web 1.0 – Once Upon a Time…

Web 1.0 – mid 1990s• 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 – mid 2000s

• 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)

Key Web 2.0 concepts• Applications delivered via a web

browser• Exploiting and (sometimes freely)

sharing data• Mashups and other unintended uses• User participation, empowerment, and

collaboration• Social networking• Communities of interest• Tagging and folksonomies

a Web 2.0 example…

Flickr

Flickr

Flickr

Flickr – image pools

Flickr - tags

Flickr – tag cloud

Flickr - geotagging

Flickr & Libraries

Flickr & Libraries

Flickr & Libraries

Flickr – mashups

• Flickr Services API• Moo cards• Flickr toys• Retrievr• Colr Pickr• Multicolr Search Lab

Some facts and figures

• over 3 billion images on Flickr• 110 million MySpace accounts• 261 million edits on Wikipedia• 112 million weblogs tracked by

Technorati• 110 million Facebook accounts• 32 million books on LibraryThing• 8.2 million editors on Wikipedia• 2.6 million Wikipedia articles

So, who’s doing all this stuff?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/b-tal/163450213/

US online demographics

Pew Report: Generations Online (Oct 2007)

“social website for over-50s”

Freeconomics…

…or, is there such a thing as a “free lunch”?

A Tale of Two (Capa)cities

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)

£0.09½ 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 access 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 is a state of mind”

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Time for a joke…

• How many Librarians does it take to change a light bulb?

• Change!?!

“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

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!

How do you become a “Librarian 2.0”?

Charlotte & Mecklenburg

25 Things @ Huddersfield

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…

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Huddersfield Public Library

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10% of our entire stock

“I borrowed an orange book 3 years ago… what was it?”

Delft Public Library

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Delft Public Library

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Delft Public Library

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Delft Public Library

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Seattle Public Library

http://www.flickr.com/photos/theta444/16800827/

Seattle Public Library

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Glasgow Caledonian University

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Glasgow Caledonian University

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Sheffield Information Commons

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Library 2.0 @ Huddersfield

…or “Huddersfield 2.0”?

Blogs for communication

Blogs for communication

Blogs for communication

Wikis for collaboration

Making our data work harder

Making our data work harder

RSS feeds

Alerting services

External data – LibraryThing

External data – Google Books

Shelf browsing

Keyword search visualisations

Data visualisations

Data visualisations

Data visualisations

Eye candy (Catherine Wheel?)

Eye candy

3 year library refurbishment

So… fizz or bang?

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Some final quotes about change

• “The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.”

(Abraham Lincoln)

• “There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.”

(Winston Churchill)

• “Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.”

(Robert C. Gallagher)

Thank you!

http://www.daveyp.com/blog/