Library 2.0

Reading Terminal can be cramped & noisy, depending on the establishment; it might not be the best choice -- and it closes at 6 M-Sat. & 4 on Sun. I know of a terrific gelato/sorbet place & Beau Monde had good crêpes the last time I was in the city, but that's the limit of my Philly food knowledge. (Source: Forum - Library 2.0)

Over at librariesinteract.info, I’ve just posted about Ten Library 2.0 Resolutions for 2008. The resolutions are below, but you’ll need to hop over to the original post to read my pointers about how to achieve them. Find out more about your users. Find out about you non-users. Look at some role models Run classes in new tech tools….for other library staff or your users. Create your own blog. Think about the semantic web. Put hardware on your radar Look at your physical space Review Reference Explore, discover, play. I hope next year is peaceful, bright and shiny for you. (Source: Librarians matter)

Whether or not you are comfortable with the term Library 2.0, it does have some useful ideas to offer your library. Here’s ten Library 2.0 resolutions to add to your list for 2008. 1. Find out more about your users. It all starts with them. So many new tools, offering so much new promise - how do we know what to research, let alone implement? The answer is different for each library and depends on the preference of the users. What’s the mission of your parent organisation? How many of your users have broadband? What’s the age and education level of your users? How are they different to people served by other libraries? What do they think of your existing services? What else would they like to see? 2. Find out about you non-users. Not just any non-users, but people in your designated client group who do not use your services. Try conducting a non-user survey. Why don’t they use you? Can new web tools help those challenged by disability, time or distance? Are they technological “have-nots”? Can you do more to help this group? 3. Look at some role models Check out Library Success: A Best Practices wiki. Check out the Ann Arbor District Library. Look at worldcat.org. Subscribe to the RSS feed for just two of the following library blogs and resolve to read every post for a month: Jessamyn West’s librarian.net Michael Stephen’s Tame the Web Steve Cohen’s Library Stuff Stephen Abram’s Stephen’s Lighthouse Jude O’Connell’s Hey Jude Laura Cohen’s Library 2.0 : an academic’s perspective American Library Association’s Techsource blog Karen Schneider’s Free Range Librarian Sarah Houghton-Jan’s Librarian in Black Ellysa Kroski’s iLibrarian the personal blogs of the Thali , the group of librarians who administer this blog. .. ...

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http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/231/report_display.asp "The survey results challenge the assumption that libraries are losing relevance in the internet age. Libraries drew visits by more than half of Americans (53%) in the past year for all kinds of purposes, not just the problems mentioned in this survey. And it was the young adults in tech-loving Generation Y (age 18-30) who led the pack. Compared to their elders, Gen Y members were the most likely to use libraries for problem-solving information and in general patronage for any purpose." (Source: Forum - Library 2.0)

Hi all, My name is Corin Haines and I am the Manager, Digital Services for Manukau Libraries, in New Zealand. I am very interested in Library 2.0 as I am wanting to build a framework for the development of new online services which is customer centric and ensures we enable our customers to take a major part in growing with us. (Source: Forum - Library 2.0)

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released a report (Pdf here) that you should read. Really. It will likely challenge assumptions that we make regarding who uses libraries and why. Here are a few of their findings as examples: Problem Solving Behavior (from Major Questions and Findings): 58% of those who had recently experienced one of those problems said they used the internet (at home, work, a public library or some other place) to get help. 53% said they turned to professionals such as doctors, lawyers or financial experts. 45% said they sought out friends and family members for advice and help. 36% said they consulted newspapers and magazines. 34% said they directly contacted a government office or agency. 16% said they consulted television and radio. 13% said they went to the public library. Public Library Use, by Generation (from Chapter 3): After Work (age 72+) - 32% Matures (62-71) - 42% Leading Boomers (53-61) - 46% Trailing Boomers (43-52) - 57% Generation X (31-42) - 59% Generation Y (18-30) - 62% Regarding the second set of statistics, this is a dramatic turnaround from a survey in 1996 (from Chapter 9) which showed 18-24 year olds being the “least supportive” of libraries. Another interesting note is that those with broadband access to the internet are more likely to use a public library than those with lower or no access to the internet (from Chapter 3). This finding surprised me. Read the report; there is a lot more there to catch your attention. What surprises you? What confirms your circumstances? What does it all mean? We are in a time of great change for libraries. The internet, social networking, wireless access, and broad access to computers are all radical forces that are going to alter our jobs and environments in ways we still cannot fully imagine. Understanding and implementing Library 2.0 concepts is only a start (but a necessary one). ...

All the talk about how libraries are losing the younger generation is apparently just that...talk. A survey done by Pew Internet & American Life Project found that the biggest group is actually Generation Y, the 18-30 year olds. While they may no longer be using the library for what we would call "traditional" reasons, they are using the library. (Source: LISNews.org)

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Sur LibWorld, un état de la biblioblogosphère italienne. (Des billets sur d'autres pays - Suisse, Argentine, ... - sont également disponibles.) Via The Geek Librarian (Source: pintiniblog)

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From the comments on this post: “… what happens to the physical library? If Topeka Public mails the holds to patrons and they can drop the returned item at boxes, and the patrons need not come to the physical library… I’m the systems librarian at the Academy Library Budapest and am alarmed by the declining clientele. What still draws them to the library is the line of subscribed databases which are unavailable outside of the library. What can we offer to repopulate the spaces, apart from the complementary agora-like events like occasional exhibitions, book presentations and invited lecturers-speakers?” Great question, and a great way to end the year… or start the new year, depending on when you read this. So - readers, what do you think? How can we get people into the physical library? Here’s my shot at it - we need to run the library a bit more like a business, and simply offer people something they want (like a good or product that a business offers to a customer). But what do we offer them? Here’s a great example from the ReadWriteWeb: “Imagine a future when you go to the library with a 5 minute video you’ve just made about last night’s Presidential debates and that librarian says to you: ‘You should upload it to YouTube and tag it with these four tags - two broad and two more specific to existing communities of interest on YouTube and the topic of your video. Then you should embed that video in a blog post along with some text introducing it and linking to some of your favorite posts by other people who have also written today about the Presidential debates. ...

Hi all I am putting together a presentation titled "Given recent advances in technology, what opportunities do you see for on-line libraries of the future?" Got any ideas on specifics that should be included? (Source: Forum - Library 2.0)

Zotero est, pour faire simple, une extension qui permet de gérer des références bibliographiques depuis le navigateur Firefox (pour plus d'explications, allez voir les gars de l'Urfist, ils sont fans de Zotero). Le Center for history and new media de l'Université George Mason, qui en est à l'initiative, vient d'annoncer un partenariat avec l'Internet Archive, baptisé Zotero Commons. Il s'agit de permettre aux chercheurs, via Zotero, de déposer dans l'Internet Archive, de divers documents : des documents qu'ils auront numérisés, ou bien des documents produits nativement au format numérique ; le stockage et l'OCRisation étant effectués sur les serveurs de l'IA. Beau projet, qui pose toutefois question sur les relations entre cette archive centralisée et les éventuelles archives institutionnelles locales (tiens, ça me rappelle quelquechose) ; le projet se situant dans un environnement complètement open source, on peut cependant raisonnablement imaginer le développement ultérieur de connecteurs vers les archives locales. Autre écueil, souligné sur son blog Library 2.0 : an academic's perspective par Laura Cohen, qui regrette que les bibliothèques ne soient pas associées au projet : Zotero Commons : who needs libraries ?. En effet, cet article d'Inside higher education qu'elle commente, affirme que "les projets de numérisation des vastes fonds des bibliothèques ne manquent pas d'ambition, mais les modes d'accès aux documents, ainsi que les questions de copyright sont 2 facteurs qui ont freiné le développement d'archives en ligne." Cette initiative serait un moyen de "court-circuiter" (to bypass) les bibliothèques, en faisant circuler les documents directement entre chercheurs (tiens, ça me rappelle quelquechose). ...

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It was two years ago today that I started this here blog on libraries, technology and things related to libraries and technology. Just as I did last year, I’ll offer you, the humble reader, the list of my favorite blog posts I wrote this past year. Consider it me tooting my horn at you. Although that sounds kind of goofy and weird, so maybe you should think of it as something else. Anyhoo, the blog posts I wrote that I’m most proud of are: Connecting the Dots My ALA Library 2.0.0.3 Web X Internet Librarian 2007: More Stuff Conferences Here, There and Everywhere Faraway, So Close! (Source: the goblin in the library)

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At one point, a few of you (well, one) expressed interest in a book version of Library 2.0 and “Library 2.0″, presumably including the followup Finding a Balance: Libraries and Librarian. I started on that project but didn’t finish it: Adding the perfect, fully-vetted, Chicago-style citations and bibliography for all of the blog quotes and reindexing the essays just seemed like more work than it was worth. But you can get both those essays in book form now, indexed and everything–together with another 330+ pages of great content, including Looking at Liblogs: The Great Middle, my study of 213 liblogs. And for the same price as I would have charged for the Library 2.0 material alone: $29.50, the (so far) standard price for Cites & Insights Books. Just go to Lulu and pick it up. (It’s only available from Lulu: CreateSpace doesn’t do 8.5×11″ books.) Volume 6 had more “regular” pages than Volume 7, but the bound volume’s slightly shorter (388 pages instead of 405 pages), thanks to the extra phantom issue in 2007. Extra: There’s something extra for buyers of the bound volume, in addition to a great wraparound cover picture (the Golden Gate Bridge from the deck of the Crystal Harmony, passing through on our way to Alaska in, I think, 2001…or 2003…or 2005). A four-page preface offers a few notes about Volume 6, but mostly offers an update on the liblogs covered in the 2005 and 2006 studies–which ones have moved and which appear to be gone. The short version: of the 60 blogs in 2005, 10% may have shut down and 17% have changed URLs and/or names. ...

There must be something in the Reading Terminal which is right next to the convention center. I am not very familiar with Philly so can't name a specific place, but I am looking for the Am. Libraries restaurant guide to find something. I will get back to you. Has anyone else spoken up? (Source: Forum - Library 2.0)

Reading sounds good. Everyone is very quiet on this topic. Perhaps I need to repost with a different title. (Source: Forum - Library 2.0)