Library 2.0: A Guide to Participatory Service Originally uploaded by mstephens7. Library 2.0 A Guide to Participatory Library Service By Michael Casey and Laura Savastinuk Two of the first and most original thinkers on Library 2.0 introduce the essential concepts and offer ways to improve service to better meet the changing needs of 21st century library users. Describing a service model of constant and purposeful change, evaluation and updating of library services, and user participation, the book both outlines the theoretical underpinnings of Library 2.0 and provides practical advice on how to get there. From incorporating technology to reaching “the […]
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Rosario writes: Take a look at the prizes that are up for grabs for the staff of the Palos Verdes Library District who complete their modified version of 23 things. You can view the available goodies at the site. This is another example of a library doing good things on a small IT budget. http://www.pvldlearning.blogspot.com/ A Wii! iPods!! Woohoo… The library ties the program to it’s mission and vison. Explore some of the new technologies that are reshaping how people use the Internet to access information and interact with one another. Think about how these new technologies could be used […]
Joomla in Libraries Originally uploaded by crr29061. http://www.joomlainlibrary.com/ From the site: Joomla! is an award-winning, open source (Free!) Content Management System that helps you build and manage state-of-the-art websites and other powerful online applications. Why Joomla In Libraries ? Here you’ll find step-by-step tutorials, library-focused templates, extensions, and a community of support to get your website off the ground and running quickly and smoothly.
More linkage folks! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE&eurl= This weekend is the second meeting of my section of LIS753: Internet Fundamentals & Design. Over six in class eight hour days and some out of class online hours, the class codes HTML, blogs, and creates a new library service with a Web 2.0 tool. We started the day with a brief presentation by our Dutch visitors Erik & Jaap. They shared details of their innovations at DOK and engaged the class in a conversation/discussion about implementing new ideas and sharing content at Delft Public Library. What about the costs for these tools? a student asked. […]
http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2007/02/a_moving_pictur.php Richard Wallis discusses the Web 2.0 Video and offers this: If you haven’t seen it yet I encourage you to invest the 4:31 minutes it takes to watch. According to Michael Wesch – Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Kansas State University this is only a second draft of the video but nevertheless eminently watchable. The video is an output from Digital Ethnography – a working group of Kansas State University students and faculty dedicated to exploring and extending the possibilities of digital ethnography. Those four and a half minutes deliver a more informative/entertaining insight in to the journey from […]
Jenny says: “What would you add to help your colleagues understand this is also “Library 2.0?” Casey Bisson states simply: “It rocks” and shares some text from the video: ext is unilinear…when written on paper. Digital text is different. Hypertext can link. With form seperated from content, users did not need to know complicated code to upload content to the web. Who will organize all of this data? We will. You will. Digital text is not longer just linking information…Web 2.0 is linking people…people sharing, trading, and collaborating. We’ll need to rethink a few things… What does this mean for […]
I was tickled to read Michael Golrick’s post about blurbing Library 2.0: A Guide to Participatory Library Service by Michael Casey and Laura Savastinuk. It will be published by Information Today in April and, like Michael, I hope that the book does very well. I’ve read it and look forward to using it in future classes. (Disclaimer: I wrote the foreword. 🙂 )
I gave a new talk at OLA last week called “Best Practices for Social Software,” based in part on my Library Technology Report and some new thinking I’ve been doing in response to all the incredible stuff happening in libraryland and in our 2.0 world. I want to write up the list and hope to get to that this week, but I was delighted to get a lengthy e-mail response to the talk. Patti writes about her thinking in response to some of the considerations of the Read/Write Web and has allowed me to publish it here: Hi Michael, A […]
Via Library Crunch: http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/feb07/Blowers_Reed.shtml Since launching Learning 2.0, I’ve been contacted by at least 2 dozen other libraries that wanted advice on how to develop programs of their own. The great thing about Learning 2.0 is that I created it with the same free Web 2.0 tools that it introduces to staff. I used Blogger.com to publish all the exercises, Bloglines for tracking all staff members’ blogs via RSS, Odeo to host the podcasts, Flickr for photos, and YouTube for videos. Because these tools are free and open, you don’t need your own Web server or domain to create an […]
I had the honor of visiting with the MacMaster University library staff on Thursday in Hamilton, Ontario. I did a one hour talk on Library 2.0 and social tools and then Amanda Etches-Johnson, User Experience Librarian at Mac took over and introduced the program. They will be giving MP3 players to all staff who finish the course! The course blog is here: http://macetg.wordpress.com/