web 2.0 and library 2.0: ... it's okay to play!

Web 2.0 & Library 2.0…it’s okay to play!

Dave Pattern Library Systems ManagerUniversity of Huddersfield

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Contents• Question time!• Web 2.0• Web 2.0 example – Flickr• Library 2.0• Some Library 2.0 examples…

…which we won’t have time for! • Play and experimentation

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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/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacksonlee/6222523/

Question time!• Do you have

wireless internet access at home?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/113353477/


use your home PC or laptop for more than an hour each evening?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardholden/340601444/


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 or contribute to one?

http://www.blogger.com


read other peoples weblogs and/or leave comments?

http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001325.html


use Wikipedia?

…or should that be “Will you admit to using Wikipedia?”

Question time!• Have you ever

edited a page on Wikipedia?

…if not, why not?


use instant messaging or online chat?– e.g. AIM, Yahoo!

Messenger, MSN, gTalk, Jabber, ICQ, Meebo, etc

Question time!• Do you have a

games console at home?

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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 & chat rooms– 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• User participation, empowerment, and

collaboration• Social networking• Communities of common interest• Tagging and folksonomies• Exploiting and (sometimes freely)

sharing data• Mashups and other unintended uses

Two point “Oh”

• Evolutionary rather than revolutionary

a Web 2.0 example…

Flickr

Flickr – image pools

Flickr - tags

Flickr - clusters

Flickr - geotagging

Flickr – mashups

• Flickr Services API• Moo cards• Flickr toys• Retrievr• Colr Pickr

Some facts and figures

• over 2 billion images on Flickr• 228 million edits on Wikipedia• 112 million weblogs tracked by

Technorati• 110 million MySpace accounts• 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?

Millennial Generation

• Born 1980s & 1990s• Grew up with technology and the

Web– “Digital Natives”

• Value the Internet more than television or radio [1]

• Millennials make up around ¼ of the entire US population

Millennial traits

• Content creators• Format agnostic• Nomadic usage of technology• Technology veterans• Multi-taskers• Experiential• Collaborative & social• High expectations

UK teens online

• “New research released today by MTV and Microsoft reveals that young people in the UK spend 34 hours online each week, almost the equivalent of an average working week, with eight in ten 16-24 year olds (80%) logging on to the internet daily and claiming that they can’t live without their computer.”

PublicTechnology.net article (Aug 2007)

Social networking (UK)

• “More than 90%* of UK teenagers have used a social networking website and more than half use them because their friends do.”

(*93%)

The Guardian: Most teens are MySpacers (May 2007)

Teens and technology (UK)

• daily mobile phone use is up 58% on 2002

• more than 75% of 11 year olds have their own TV, games console and mobile phone

• 15% of 13-15 year olds and 7% of 10 year olds have their own webcam

BBC: Britain enjoying 'digital boom' (Aug 2007)

“social website for over-50s”

US online demographics

Pew Report: Generations Online (Oct 2007)

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• “Libraries without walls”• Delivering services to where you users

are• 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?

Wanted: Librarian 2.0

Some Library 2.0 examples…

…which we don’t really have time for!

Topeka and Shawnee County

Westmont Public Library, Illinois

Stevens County Rural Library, Washington

Flickr – 365 Library Days Project

Thomas Ford Memorial Library, Illinois

• “I’ve gotta say folks, video games in libraries is absolutely what it is cracked up to be. The fact that it is an excellent way to meet the cultural needs of our young patrons was demonstrated to me over and over by the number of people that came and their enthusiasm.”


Aaron Schmidt, walking paper

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/

632151/

Hennepin County Library

Ann Arbor District Library

Charlotte & Mecklenburg County Public Library

Hartlepool Borough Council Libraries

Cheshire Public Library, Connecticut

Glasgow University Library

University of Huddersfield, UK

McCracken County Public Library, Kentucky

St. Joseph County Public Library, Indiana

Libraries in Second Life

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?”

Web 2.0 …Library 2.0 …New Stuff!

• Change is the only constant• What will happen if we/you don’t “go

with the flow”, evolve, and continually adapt your services to the needs of all of your users?

• Is there really such a thing as a librarian who doesn’t want to learn new things?!?

• Take risks… take the time to play… think big… and, above all, have fun!

That’s all Folks! Thank You!

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