Library 2.0

Web 2.0 and Libraries: Facts or Myths

by Ahmad Parvez

The objective and scope of this paper is to assess and highlight the potential of Web 2.0 in the context of libraries.... more The objective and scope of this paper is to assess and highlight the potential of Web 2.0 in the context of libraries. The concept of Web 2.0 such as social networks, RSS feeds, blogs, streaming media, podcasts, Wikis, tags, mashups, etc. is defined and the possible applications in various library functions and activities are mentioned. In addition, the difference between the Web 2.0 and Web 1.0 is given and how during the past several years, new advances in web technologies have enabled libraries to create new interactive services, such as virtual reference services, personalised interfaces of online catalogues, and audio-visual media that
can be downloaded by the user community irrespective of their physical locations. Thus, these emerging webbased features (Web 2.0) are opening new avenues and giving libraries the ability to offer the improved, customer-driven services to the user communities.

Veje til fremtidens skolebibliotek

by Roland Hachmann

Evaluating the needs and potentials of school libraries of the future. (This paper is in danish)

I projekt Fremtidens Skolebibliotek deltager 13 skolebiblioteker fra Region Syddanmark. Projektet har som mål at... more I projekt Fremtidens Skolebibliotek deltager 13 skolebiblioteker fra Region Syddanmark. Projektet har som mål at flytte en række af skolebibliotekets aktiviteter fra den analoge til den digitale platform. Projekt Fremtidens Skolebibliotek koordineres af Center for Undervisningsmidler, Aabenraa og er støttet af Styrelsen for Bibliotek og Medier. Projektet afvikles i skoleåret 2010-2011. Projektet evalueres af University College Syddanmark.

Library 2.011 World-wide Virtual Conference,“The Future of Libraries in the Digital Age”, November 2-4, 2011

by Minglu Wang

What is Library 2.0?

by Maria Kronqvist-Berg

Holmberg, Kim, Huvila, Isto, Kronqvist-Berg, Maria and Widén-Wulff, Gunilla: What is Library 2.0?. Journal of Documentation. Volume 65 Issue 4 (2009), pp. 668–681. ISSN 0022-0418.

Bibliotheekopleidingen over de grenzen heen (Interview)

by Leen Liefsoens

Auteurs: Dirk Desaever, Stijn Meersseman
In: Bibliotheek- & Archiefgids, Vol. 86, No. 3. (2010), pp. 17-23.

Leen Liefsoens is Belgische maar door 'de liefde' in Nederland terecht gekomen. Ze is geboren en getogen in Hasselt en... more Leen Liefsoens is Belgische maar door 'de liefde' in Nederland terecht gekomen. Ze is geboren en getogen in Hasselt en studeerde er ook af. Na haar studies Bijzondere Jeugdzorg in 2002, besloot ze een carrièreswitch te maken en startte ze met de Initiatie Bibliotheekwezen in de bibliotheekschool van Genk. Eenmaal geslaagd, zocht en vond ze werk in de Hogeschool Zuyd in Nederlands Limburg. Ondertussen was ze ook gestart met de opleiding Graduaat in het bibliotheekwezen, waarvan ze in 2007 het diploma behaalde. Dat diploma bleek uiteindelijk niet te worden gelijkgeschakeld met bachelor, wat haar ertoe aanzette de opleiding te herdoen aan de Hogeschool Amsterdam, zij het dit keer met een reeks vrijstellingen op zak. Een half jaar eerder was ze met haar vriend naar Nieuwegein verhuisd en ging ze aan de slag in Xplora, de bibliotheek van de Avans Hogeschool in 's-Hertogenbosch. In 2009 behaalde ze dan toch het begeerde bachelor diploma 'Informatie en Media (IM)'. Haar achtergrond maakt haar de geknipte persoon om vergelijkingen te maken tussen Vlaamse en Nederlandse opleidingen. Maar ook over heel wat andere thema's: Web 2.0, bibliotheek 2.0, kennismanagement… heeft ze een uitgesproken mening en visie en bovenal frisse ideeën.

Leen Liefsoens is Belgian but ended in the Netherlands because she found 'love' there. She was born and raised in Hasselt and graduate there to. After studying Special Youthe Care in 2002, she decided to make a career change and started with the study Initation Librarianship at the Librarian School of Genk. Once graduated, she searched and found work in Zuyd University of Applied Sciences in Limburg, a province in the Netherlands. Meanwhile, she also started the study Graduate Librarianship, which she graduated in 2007. That turned out not to be degree equal to bachelor, which prompted he to repeat the course at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, but this time with a series of exemptions. Six month earlier she moved with her boyfriend to Nieuwegein and started to work in Xplora, the library of Avans University of Applied Sciences. In 2009 she finally got her bachelor's degree in Information and Media. Her background makes her the perfect person to make comparisons between Flemish and Dutch courses. But she has also strong views and visions and above all fresh ideas about many other topics: web 2.0, library 2.0, knowledge management, ...

We can’t let schools become book free zones

by Tara Brabazon

Times Higher Education, May 29, 2008

Library 2.0: Balancing the Risks and Benefits to Maximise the Dividends

by Brian Kelly

Library 2.0: Balancing the Risks and Benefits to Maximise the Dividends, Kelly, B., Bevan, P., Akerman, R., Alcock, J. and Fraser, J. Program (2009), Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 331-327.

Purpose
This paper provides a number of examples of how Web 2.0 technologies and approaches (Library 2.0) are... more Purpose
This paper provides a number of examples of how Web 2.0 technologies and approaches (Library 2.0) are being used within the library sector. The paper acknowledges that there are a variety of risks associated with such approaches. The paper describes the different types of risks and outlines a risk assessment and risk management approach which is being developed to minimize the dangers whilst allowing the benefits of Library 2.0 to be realized.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper outlines various risks and barriers which have been identified at a series of workshops run by UKOLN for the cultural heritage sector in the UK. A risk assessment and risk management approach which was initially developed to support use of Web 2.0 technologies at events organized by UKOLN (a national centre of expertise in digital information management based in the UK) is described and its potential for use within the wider library community, in conjunction with related approaches for addressing areas such as accessibility and protection of young people, is described.

Findings
Use of Library 2.0 approaches is becoming embedded across many Libraries which seek to exploit the benefits which such technologies can provide. The need to ensure that the associated risks are identified and appropriate mechanisms implemented to minimize such risks are beginning to be appreciated.

Practical implications
The areas described in this paper should be of relevance to many Library organisations which are making use of Library 2.0 services.

Originality/value
The paper should prove valuable to policy makers and Web practitioners within Libraries who may be aware of the potential benefits of Library 2.0 but have not considered associated risks.

Go Shush Yourself: Student Habitus at the New Thompson Library

by Kyle Olson

Presented to the Directors of the Ohio State Libraries, December 2010
Co-authored with: Katie Carmichael, Adrianne Clark, Megan Kough,
Jacqueline Lipphardt, Mark Moritz, Kyle Olson, Michael Rayo,
Erin Reilly-Sanders, & Gordon Ulmer

The Thompson Library has been redesigned in part as a learning
commons with the assumption that pedagogical... more The Thompson Library has been redesigned in part as a learning
commons with the assumption that pedagogical models and student learning are becoming more and more social and collaborative. However, it is unclear whether students' ideas of how libraries should be used have caught up with these developments. Students may still have the habitus of a more traditional university library and may not view and use the library as a learning commons. The goal of the ethnographic
study was to understand students' use of the new Thompson Library.

CiteULike o el descubrimiento de la información científica

by Julio Alonso Arévalo

La Biblioteca 2.0: Netvibes aplicación a Bibliotecas Opciones

by Julio Alonso Arévalo

Los Gestores de Referencias Sociales: índices de popularidad y descubrimiento científico

by Julio Alonso Arévalo

Alonso-Arévalo, J. Los Gestores de Referencias Sociales: índices de popularidad y descubrimiento científico, Comunidades Virtuales 2.0 d la SEDIC 2009.

The next generation managers have allowed to have these applications on the web browser, which follows a logical, if... more The next generation managers have allowed to have these applications on the web browser, which follows a logical, if the web browser is the natural tool for the discovery of scientific research, it is natural that this is the tool to collect bibliographic records, so that the web environment is becoming increasingly harder for a recurrent element share and discover scientific information.

La gestores de última generación han permitido disponer de estas aplicaciones en el navegador web, lo cual obedece a una lógica, si el navegador web es la herramienta natural para el descubrimiento de la investigación científica, es natural que ésta sea la herramienta con la que recopilar los registros bibliográficos; de manera que el entorno web se va convirtiendo cada vez con más fuerza en un elemento recurrente para compartir y descubrir información científica.

Mendeley El Last. fm de la investigación

by Julio Alonso Arévalo

Alonso-Arévalo, J. Mendeley El Last.fm de la investigación, 2009. (Unpublished) [Other].

ndeley is a reference manager free, multiplatform (Mac, Windows, Linux) version that has both local and web version... more ndeley is a reference manager free, multiplatform (Mac, Windows, Linux) version that has both local and web version with the ability to sync both automatically, and according to its creators Jan Reichelt, Victor Henning and Paul Foeckler were inspired Last.fm web, social-networking Internet radio for music recommendation with personal profiles and usage statistics

Mendeley es un gestor de referencias libre y multiplataforma (Mac, Windows, Linux) que dispone tanto de versión local como de versión web con la posibilidad de sincronizan ambas automáticamente, y que según sus creadores Jan Reichelt, Victor Henning y Paul Foeckler hicieron inspirándose en la web Last.fm, -una red social de radio vía Internet para la recomendación de música con perfiles personales y estadísticas de uso.

Building Digital Libraries: Role of Social (Open Source) Software

by Jason Pannone

(2010) Co-authored with Dr. Kshema Prakash and Dr. K. Santi Swarup; in Building Sustainable Digital Libraries: Socio-Technical Perspectives, IGI Global Publications, pp. 90-107

Blogging is a relatively recent phenomenon, and its use in academic libraries is in nascent stage. The authors of this... more Blogging is a relatively recent phenomenon, and its use in academic libraries is in nascent stage. The authors of this chapter use blogs as part of their outreach to patrons, though in slightly different contexts and for slightly different purposes. Blogging can be an important component of digital libraries, one that allows for timely two-way communication of news, information, bibliographic instruction, and the like. While challenges have been raised to the worth and value of academic library blogs (e.g., Gorman, 2005), the authors believe, based on the research and their experience, that blogging is a useful tool for academic librarians and digital libraries.

Making Twitter Work for You

by Donna Ekart

Computers in Libraries, May 2011, Tech Tips for Every Librarian

On the surface, managing a social media account such as Twitter for your library seems like a simple task. Typing 140... more On the surface, managing a social media account such as Twitter for your library seems like a simple task. Typing 140 characters a couple of times a day, how hard could that be? The number of people who have jumped in, naively thinking it's something that can be taken care of in between real work tasks, are legion and so are the number of Twitter accounts they've left moribund. This month, well talk about a couple of options for using Twitter that go beyond managing your presence to help you extract value out of the Twitter universe.

Codify your Library

by Donna Ekart

Computers in Libraries, April 2011, Tech Tips for Every Librarian

QR codes look crazy and have a name like something from a dystopian science fiction story in which everyone is... more QR codes look crazy and have a name like something from a dystopian science fiction story in which everyone is required to be branded with identifying information. That's a little sad, because they're actually quite user-friendly, simple, and not at all dystopian once you're familiar with them. So let's get familiar.

Party Like it's...2006?

by Donna Ekart

Computers in Libraries, January 2011, Tech Tips for Every Librarian

Podcasting's "hot topic" spotlight may have passed, but there are still some strong reasons to give it a try... more Podcasting's "hot topic" spotlight may have passed, but there are still some strong reasons to give it a try for your library.  Here are tips, tools, and strategies to get your podcast on.

Toyo Ito's Philosophy Platform at Designing the Mediatheque in Sendai as a New Architectural Prototype of a Library Building

by Nadya Stamatova

LIBRARIES IN THE INFORMATION-ORIENTED SOCIETY

by Nadya Stamatova

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

by Dan Petrovic

The Promise and Challenge of Digital Data

A great evening with the Friends of the Library brings a fascinating discussion around the promises and challenges of... more A great evening with the Friends of the Library brings a fascinating discussion around the promises and challenges of digital data. Four industry experts shared their insight and knowledge around information preservation, digitisation, retrieval, storage and continuity.

Implementing Web-Scale Discovery for the Ansari Paper Map Collection

by Tod Colegrove

Poster presented at the MSU Emerging Technologies Summit, 2011
Co-authored with Zachary Newell, Google Engineering

The nearly 200,000 printed paper maps of the Ansari Map Library was in desperate need of a viable discovery mechanism;... more The nearly 200,000 printed paper maps of the Ansari Map Library was in desperate need of a viable discovery mechanism; the aging card catalog filled with notes understandable only to the map librarian was of little use to the majority of the customers of the library. Although the MARCIVE records for the collection had been purchased more than five years previous, with the manual task of editing/correcting each record ongoing for much of that time, the long-term prognosis of the project was poor. The decision was reached to leverage the existence of authoritative metadata through the USGS website to programmatically construct catalog records, and semi-automate the process of integrating the map barcodes along with relevant metadata into the OPAC; simultaneously implementing a user-friendly Google Maps web interface for discovery, linked directly to the records in the library catalog. Details associated with the metadata crosswalk, along with the relatively straightforward task and workflows involved are presented, in conjunction with a live demonstration of the web interface.