Library 2.0

Recently one of my school colleagues, Jan, wrote about Ning on our blog Bibliosphere News - alerting all of a new ‘MySpace-like’ environment that is being explored by educators. As our schools are particularly interested in emerging Web 2.0 tools, she encouraged us to… Have a look at Steve Hargadon’s School 2.0 social network and see a social network in the making. He’s using Ning, a social network builder, and then look at Bill Drew’s very active Library 2.0 network (includes school libraries but not confined to education). Certainly Library 2.0 has a great pool of members, (up to 850 the other day) and it will be interesting to see how this develops, and what it offers that is different to blogs and blogging. Like all social networking sites, Ning incorporates flexible ways of communicating and sharing information - easily! I can communicate with my friends, keep track of a number of Ning networks, and use it to create projects of my own. It is worthwhile checking out Library2.0, Classroom2.0, School2.0 and SecondLife Librarians which is just starting up. There are others too, and (as usual) you can easily find networks of interest via the spiderweb of networks of your friends! (I must say I am not running a seperate blog in each of these - and one of the things I would like is the flexibility to link my blog from each of my networks if I wanted to?) I really like the use of Ning by the StopCyberbullying network. A beautifully crafted use of Web 2.0 tools to collaborate on this important topic. Great use of Feed Digest to provide the body of content from all the resources that members of the Network have identified as valuable on this topic. I have already planned to use Ning for a Learnscope project - which will provide the collaborative professional learning environment for teachers involved in VTE Information Technology at Year 11. LearnScope focuses on work-based staff development. ...

For those who may not know, ACRL is the Assocation and Research Libraries Association a division of ALA.Why? you ask, would a special librarian attend ACRL?Because the research, contributed papers and posters done at the academic library are of sufficient interest and have some relevance to many research libraries in the special world.The quality and calibre of the sessions is high. The work produced and delivered is thoughtful and done with key client groups in mind.All the sessions I have attended so far have been jam packed rooms, with well prepared presenters who deliver their content with enthusiasm.. I haven't been bored or disappointed with the programmes I've attended.What's the buzz at ACRL?Reference librarians in academic libraries are concerned. Their stats are dropping off, yet they know students and faculty need their help? How to re-invent reference services?Social networking tools and anything with Web 2.0 Library 2.0 and their applications to service.To Facebook or not? Is it an intrusion or are we really doing the right thing.Is federated searching working?ACRL has a record breaking crowd according to the daily conference news. Over 3000 apparently though I haven't verified this fact. I see many many first timers like myself. That is, seasoned conference goers looking for something different. I see quite a few Canadians in the crowd including our colleagues from the local universities plus lots more.From the Futre of Reference"We are too modest in telling our stories""It's a major succes that people use our resources without our intervention. ""Our students used to wander through the stacks aimlessly and now they are doing the same on the Internet."" We need to clarify WHAT we do, and WHY?""We have to get from behind the reference desk and start moving around to where our students (replace students with clients in the special world) live be it in the real space or in virtual spaces. ...

Karl's del.icio.us Feederizer Links for 2007-03-29 [del.icio.us] Posted: 30 Mar 2007 12:00 AM CDT Another possible solution for a daily del.icio.us post in Blogger (see comments) OLA 2007: 100th Annual Conference of the Oklahoma Library Association This is where I'll be on April 3 and 4! Five Weeks To A Social Library | The first free, grassroots, completely online course devoted to teaching librarians about social software Bald & Effective - a blog about politics, baseball, and New York This is the blog of my best friend from grade school. Random Wikipedia article This is just the "Random Article" link from the Wikipedia sidebar. Fun to play with sometimes. Picasa Web Albums Anyone who uses Blogger now automatically has a Picasa Web Album containing every photo they've ever blogged. Very nice for a moblogger like me! AmbientLibrarian - a Library 2.0 Wiki Weblogs - LISWiki List of personal blogs of librarians. (Source: Txt-based Blogging)

Here’s a reference for a good old-fashioned print resource that I urge librarians to get hold of. Buschman comes from a ‘critical theory’ perspective, so is putting libraries in the context of: ‘information capitalism’ New Managerialism/New Public Management/the New Public Philosophy the commodification of information private-sector models of public service provision encroachments on the progressive, social democratic role of libraries factors limiting libraries’ capacity to facilitate public communication Buschman, John E. (2003) Dismantling the Public Sphere: Situating and Sustaining Librarianship in the Age of the New Public Philosophy. Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited I haven’t had a chance to look at this more recent article. It would be interesting to see what Buschman makes of Library 2.0 developments: Buschman, John E. (2005) ‘Libraries and the decline of public purpose’. Public Library Quarterly, 24:1 pp. 1-12 (Source: librariesinteract.info)

Later this afternoon I meet with my colleague to develop our list of 23 things for the ‘Learning Web 2.0 by Diving In‘ project that we will propose to the RefIT group when next we meet. In preparation for that meeting I started to think about my 23 things. Obviously, we will probably take many of the orginal 23 Things 23 Learning 2.0 Things* (Note: Details about each task will be activated every week with posts related to each item) Read this blog & find out about the program. Discover a few pointers from lifelong learners and learn how to nurture your own learning process. Set up your own blog & add your first post. Register your blog on PLCMC Central and begin your Learning 2.0 journey. Explore Flickr and learn about this popular image hosting site. Have some Flickr fun and discover some Flickr mashups & 3rd party sites. Create a blog post about anything technology related that interests you this week. Learn about RSS feeds and setup your own Bloglines newsreader account. Locate a few useful library related blogs and/or news feeds. Play around with an online image generator. Take a look at LibraryThing and catalog some of your favorite books. Roll your own search tool with Rollyo. Learn about tagging and discover a Del.icio.us (a social bookmaking site) Explore Technorati and learn how tags work with blog posts. Read a few perspectives on Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the future of libraries and blog your thoughts. Learn about wikis and discover some innovative ways that libraries are using them. Add an entry to the Learning 2.0 SandBox wiki. Take a look at some online productivity (word processing, spreadsheet) tools. Explore any site from the Web 2.0 awards list, play with it and write a blog post about your findings. Discover YouTube and a few sites that allow users to upload and share videos. Discover some useful search tools for locating podcasts. ...

I saw it at Wired and the Chronicle of Higher Education. I read about it on Everything is Miscellaneous. They’re talking about 23 Learning 2.0 Things, a little blog post with a big impact. The idea is simple and easily explained: “23 Things (or small exercises) that you can do on the web to explore and expand your knowledge of the Internet and Web 2.0.” Helene Blowers is a librarian, or rather the Public Services Technology Director for the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County. The project as outlined is a two month project, so you have about eight weeks to learn about two things a week. Best of all, it’s all available on the web, via an easy to read and understand hyperlinked blog, so you can try it out at your organization. Christine MacKensie, the director of the Yarra Plenty Regional Library in Melbourne, Australia (who did a four month version of the program) makes a great point in the Wired Article “The last thing we want is for people to come into our libraries and ask about Flickr or Second Life and be met with a blank look…. And they certainly won’t now.” l2, library2.0, wired (Source: librarian.net)

I  broadcasted this message to all Library 2.0 community members this morning.  I am posting it here for wider dispersal.  The most interesting part of the message for me is the news from Ning developers that they will be adding wiki functionality to the Ning platform some time in June.  This makes Ning much more useful as a focus for developing shared resources and for community building.  Why haven't you joined the Library 2.0 community? -- Bill Drew  BODY { BACKGROUND-COLOR: #eee } DIV.xg_head { PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; PADDING-LEFT: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; FONT: 11px "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WIDTH: 480px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 10px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #96b451 } H1.logo { FONT-WEIGHT: lighter; FONT-SIZE: 28px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.4em } H1.logo IMG { BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px } P.slogan { FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 2em } DIV.xg_body { BORDER-RIGHT: #96b451 10px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #96b451 10px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; FONT: 11px "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BORDER-LEFT: #96b451 10px solid; WIDTH: 470px; COLOR: #333; PADDING-TOP: 5px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #96b451 10px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff } DIV.xg_body TD { PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top; PADDING-TOP: 5px } DIV.xg_body H4 { FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.6em } DIV.xg_body H3 { MARGIN: 5px; FONT: bold 14px Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; COLOR: #000 } DIV.xg_body P { FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1em; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.6em } DIV.xg_body P BIG { FONT-SIZE: 15px } DIV.xg_body P SMALL { FONT-SIZE: 10px } DIV.xg_body P.smallprint { PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #666; LINE-HEIGHT: 1. ...

Sirsi OneSource: 32 Tips to Inspire Innovation for You and Your Library: Part 1 (tags: inspiration innovation todo toread) SirsiDynix: 32 Tips to Inspire Innovation for You and Your Library: Part 2 (tags: inspiration innovation todo toread) SirsiDynix: 32 Tips to Inspire Innovation for You and Your Library: Part 3 (tags: inspiration innovation todo toread) Technology Review: TR10: Augmented Reality One of MIT’s top ten technologies is “augmented reality” which reminds me a whole lot of ambient findability. (tags: future technology) Adobe Labs - Adobe Digital Editions Beta Download and Install from the Hectic Pace blog, Adobe’s ebook reader (tags: ebooks flash digital download) Adobe Digital Editions - Sample eBook Library adobe’s ebook library (free books or chapters) (tags: ebooks digital.library) How to Podcast this tutorial focuses on hosting your own podcast, which is a step beyond what i’m presenting on today… (tags: podcast howto podcasting) Apple - Education - Products - Podcasting in Education (tags: podcast education podcasting) Public Library Geeks Take Web 2.0 to the Stacks - Libraries hit the big time! I think this is a really interesting program. I was super lucky to be at the kickoff of this program (North Carolina libraries do good things), and I’m glad to see it’s getting the recognition it deserves. I would like to see (tags: web2.0 librarians library eLearning library2.0) elearnspace: University 2.0 Very interesting perspective on the future of libraries in light of MIT’s open courseware. Suggests that we will shift from an institution mindset to a discipline mindset. (tags: future library higher.ed open.courseware) Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Why You May Need an Online Persona « I’m all over the web, and I feel pretty good about that. ...

I  broadcasted this message to all Library 2.0 community members this morning.  I am posting it here for wider dispersal.  The most interesting part of the message for me is the news from Ning developers that they will be adding wiki functionality to the Ning platform some time in June.  This makes Ning much more useful as a focus for developing shared resources and for community building.  Why haven't you joined the Library 2.0 community? -- Bill Drew  BODY { BACKGROUND-COLOR: #eee } DIV.xg_head { PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; PADDING-LEFT: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; FONT: 11px "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WIDTH: 480px; COLOR: #ffffff; PADDING-TOP: 10px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #96b451 } H1.logo { FONT-WEIGHT: lighter; FONT-SIZE: 28px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.4em } H1.logo IMG { BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px } P.slogan { FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 2em } DIV.xg_body { BORDER-RIGHT: #96b451 10px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #96b451 10px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; FONT: 11px "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BORDER-LEFT: #96b451 10px solid; WIDTH: 470px; COLOR: #333; PADDING-TOP: 5px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #96b451 10px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff } DIV.xg_body TD { PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top; PADDING-TOP: 5px } DIV.xg_body H4 { FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.6em } DIV.xg_body H3 { MARGIN: 5px; FONT: bold 14px Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; COLOR: #000 } DIV.xg_body P { FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1em; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.6em } DIV.xg_body P BIG { FONT-SIZE: 15px } DIV.xg_body P SMALL { FONT-SIZE: 10px } DIV.xg_body P.smallprint { PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #666; LINE-HEIGHT: 1. ...

In a previous blog entry I review some social networking sites. A user has asked me in the comments the following question:-I am looking for a way to catalog and organize my home library of about 1000 books. Not interested at this point for the social interaction. What's the best site for this?Funnily enough I had been thinking about this when I was around a friends who was showing me Delicious Library. I know this has been reviewed many times, but I do like it. Obviously you need a Apple mac. Delicious Library describes itself as:-Get your Mac, a webcam, and Delicious Library and rediscover your home library. Just point any FireWire digital video camera, like an Apple iSight®, at the barcode on the back of any book, movie, music, or video game. Delicious Library does the rest. The barcode is scanned and within seconds the item's cover appears on your digital shelves filled with tons of in-depth information downloaded from one of six different web sources from around the world.I like the idea of doing that so simply of adding your media sources (dvd,cd and books) with a scanner from your i-sight camera. If you want all media try this. It does cost $40, but then thats not too bad is it?If you want to do just books my preference is with librarything. (Source: librarytwopointzero)

“The last thing we want is for people to come into our libraries and ask about Flickr or Second Life and be met with a blank look,” said Christine MacKensie, director of the Yarra Plenty Regional Library in Melbourne, Australia, which just finished a four-month version of Learning 2.0. “And they certainly won’t now.” Ob das auch hierzulande gilt? Das Wired Magazine berichtet leider ganz schön knapp über die Durchdringung Öffentlicher Bibliotheken mit Web 2.0: Public Library Geeks Take Web 2.0 to the Stacks. Zudem wird auf etwas Grundsätzliches bezüglich der Wurzel eines Neologismus’ hingewiesen: Michael Casey, division director of technology services for the Gwinnett County Public Library in Georgia, calls this movement Library 2.0. (via @ the library) (Source: IB Weblog)

Great article about a great training resource. If only I had the time to do it here at MPOW. This was posted on the library 2.0 community I created on Ning. Everyone's Blog Posts - Library 2.0 Wired on Library 2.0By Chris Zammarelli Public library geeks rejoice: Wired has a story today on Helene Blowers' Learning 2.0. References: Hanly, Beverly. "Public Library Geeks Take Web 2.0 to the Stacks." Wired (29 March 2007). Accessed 29 March 2007. Technorati tags:Library2.0 (Source: Baby Boomer Librarian)

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Woohoo! http://www.wired.com/culture/education/news/2007/03/learning2_0 Public Library Geeks Take Web 2.0 to the Stacks When the IT director at North Carolina's Charlotte & Mecklenburg County public library began training staff in the latest web technologies, she lured reluctant participants with bribes -- a free MP3 player and the chance to win a laptop. Six months later, the program they developed is the real prize. Learning 2.0, developed by public services technology director Helene Blowers, has become a surprise grassroots hit, available for free on the web and adopted by dozens of other libraries around the globe. Read the whole article! (Source: Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology)

Here is a Library 2.0 cloud based on a search of Clusty.Loading Clusty Cloud ...Technorati tags:Cloud, Clusty, Library2.0Powered by ScribeFire. (Source: Baby Boomer Librarian)

Here is a Library 2.0 cloud based on a search of Clusty.Loading Clusty Cloud ...Powered by ScribeFire.Technorati Tags: Library2.0 (Source: Baby Boomer Librarian)

Here is a Library 2.0 cloud based on a search of Clusty.Loading Clusty Cloud ...Powered by ScribeFire.Technorati Tags: Library2.0 (Source: Baby Boomer Librarian)

Here is a Library 2.0 cloud based on a search of Clusty.Loading Clusty Cloud ...Technorati tags:Cloud, Clusty, Library2.0Powered by ScribeFire. (Source: Baby Boomer Librarian)

Great article about a great training resource. If only I had the time to do it here at MPOW. This was posted on the library 2.0 community I created on Ning. Everyone's Blog Posts - Library 2.0 Wired on Library 2.0By Chris Zammarelli Public library geeks rejoice: Wired has a story today on Helene Blowers' Learning 2.0. References: Hanly, Beverly. "Public Library Geeks Take Web 2.0 to the Stacks." Wired (29 March 2007). Accessed 29 March 2007. Technorati tags:Library2.0 (Source: Baby Boomer Librarian)

One of the blogs that was going to be in my list of five favorite non-library blogs was Creating Passionate Users. But recent events made me decide to write a separate blog post about this particular blog. Like a lot of Library 2.0-types, I’m quite a fan of Creating Passionate Users, and my favorite posts are by Kathy Sierra. She’s engaging, imaginative, witty, positive, and, well, passionate. So when I read her post about being harassed online, I was absolutely appalled, angered, and sickened. Other smart people have said better things than I could, so I’ll simply say you should go read them and assume that I’m vigorously nodding my head in agreement. We cannot tolerate this kind of behavior. We wouldn’t tolerate in our physical space, and we cannot tolerate it in virtual space. We must stand together against this kind of disgusting behavior. The responsibility falls to all of us. That’s all there is to it. (Source: the goblin in the library)