library 2.0

Library 2.0 is a term that is used to describe the use of social software tools within libraries, but it is also a shorthand for a professional philosophy that is user-focused.

Originally coined by librarian blogger Michael Casey to encourage libraries to adopt Web 2.0 tools in order to enhance user services, the phrase has been the touchstone of controversy, with some decrying it as vacuous and simply an excuse to play with shiny new tech toys. However, many advocates for user-focused services in libraries have taken up the banner of Library 2.0 to represent both the tools used and the ideology of making it easier for users to access information and library services.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “library 2.0”

• Next-Gen Libraries Presentation

  
  iLibrarian — Authority: 130
  Today I presented a talk on Next-Generation Libraries at the Online Information Conference in London, England. Here’s a slidecast of my talk if you’d like to check it out. Next-Gen Libraries View more documents from Ellyssa Kroski .
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• NEFLIN Winter Workshop Schedule

  
  The Blah, Blah, Blah Blog — Authority: 126
  Theres lots of training ahead for everyone in the new NEFLIN Winter Workshop Schedule , now available. Virtual Training: 20 Questions: Ready Reference 20 Questions: Business Resources 20 Questions: Science Resources 20 Questions: Reference Resources for Kids 20 Questions: Successful Strategies for ...
  4 days ago

• Useful Links (weekly)

  
  Rhondda's Reflections - wandering around the Web — Authority: 119
  idlebackup.nl  Idlebackup can make a backup during idle time when set to automatic mode. It can also shutdown the machine after the backup is finished and can perform synchronized or sequential backups. Quotepad – free notepad that can save the text selected on the screen.  QuotePad lets you save selected text ...
  4 days ago

• Inky Award winners 2009

  
  Rhondda's Reflections - wandering around the Web — Authority: 119
  The Inky Awards were announce this morning. It would have been wonderful to be there (stocktaking however must go on!)  but I am very pleased with  he winners anyway. These awards are a celebration of the best in Young Adult literature as voted by the YA readers.  The Golden Inky (for the best Australian ...
  1 week ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  the Virtual Bookmark — Authority: 114
  CBC Spark. host Nora Young. Nov. 24 Full Interview with Mark Graham, on Wikipedias geographic blind spots. He discusses some major flaws of user generated information platforms by highlighting some research threads such as Tolkiens Middle Earth has more articles and tags than about many countries in Africa.  ...
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• Useful Links (weekly)

  
  Rhondda's Reflections - wandering around the Web — Authority: 119
  Scientific Calculator AIDLT ~ A new voice in ICT Education  Site of Australian Institute of Digital Learning and Teaching Google Image Swirl  A new way to search through Google Images, with a nice interface that let’s you look at images grouped by similarities 4Teachers : Educator’s Resources ...
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• 23 Things on Mobile

  
  Tame The Web — Authority: 119
  .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } , originally uploaded by Rob Coers . Check out 23 Dingen dynamo Rob Coers’ post here.
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• Videos of Belgrade Lectures: Scholarly Identity 2.0 and Research 2.0

  
  LIS :: Michael Habib — Authority: 110
  The videos of the Belgrade lectures are now loaded on the University of Belgrade Library’s YouTube channel . The second day’s presentation was the more interesting topic and a better presentation overall, so I am going to highlight it first.  A written overview of the highlights, key diagrams, and slides ia  ...
  1 week ago

• Reading Convergence – How Five Trends Will Reshape the Social Sector

  
  David Lee King — Authority: 405
  This morning, I discovered a blog I hadn’t heard of before – the Leading Blog , at leadershipnow.com (subscribed). The post that interested me pointed to a report just released by La Piana Consulting , titled Convergence: How Five Trends Will Reshape the Social Sector . Here’s a blurb from the report: ...
  2 weeks ago

• table crumbs

  
  rambleonsylvie — Authority: 93
  I read these ar thought they were good... marketing in libraries , get yours the cool guys quotien is reaching maximum capacity : Lorcan Dempsey: " Community is the new content. " so true. dawn of the dreadfuls daniel pink on TED : "...this is not a feeling, this is not a philosophy..." good ...
  2 weeks ago

• Using Yudu

  
  Rhondda's Reflections - wandering around the Web — Authority: 119
  Whilst looking at more ways for students to share their information with others, I have been investigating Yudu . It is a free service and it allows the user to upload documents in various formats (Word, Excel, Powerpoint or PDF) to create a more dynamic, magazine style presentation. This way of presenting ...
  2 weeks ago

• Community Discussion Guidelines for our Digital Branch

  
  David Lee King — Authority: 405
  Remember my post from last summer about comments at my library’s website ? Here’s a follow-up post to that earlier discussion. Because of all those comments (some of which were mean, snarky and personal), we needed a good, fair, “official” way to deal with them. So I started poking around other websites with ...
  2 weeks ago

• Useful Links (weekly)

  
  Rhondda's Reflections - wandering around the Web — Authority: 119
  Pandora’s Skull: All the Twittered Shakespeare Synopses  Twitter version of synopses of all Shakespeare plays. Synopses of Shakespeare’s plays in 140 characters or less The amazing web site of Shakespeare’s Sonnets  The full text of Shakespeare’s sonnets with commentaries and pictures. Since large ...
  2 weeks ago

• How to Create a Photo Gallery using the Flickr API

  
  iLibrarian — Authority: 130
  Paul Burgess at nettuts provides an extremely detailed step-by-step tutorial for How to Create a Photo Gallery using the Flickr API . If you’ve been considering ways to set up a slick photo gallery for your library’s digital image collection you’ll want to give this a read. Each of these sections includes ...
  3 weeks ago

• Takk for et par interessanne dager!

  
  Librarian 1.5 — Authority: 93
  Veldig gledelig å se at noen i bibliotek-sektoren engasjere seg i dette, selv om det burde vært MANGE flere!! Jeg håper virkelig at dere kan bidra til å spre informasjon til borgerne om fri programvare, og jeg menbr atvi bør fokusere på ett produkt: Ubuntu. Jeg fikk selv en utfordring om å oversette den der ...
  3 weeks ago

• Useful Links (weekly)

  
  Rhondda's Reflections - wandering around the Web — Authority: 119
  Canadian Education Association  Extensive Research on Transforming schools through social, academic and intellectual engagement. Digital Libraries – Goodbye to Books? | Discovery2.0  Post discussing the future of books in libraries. Welcome to MySafeSurf!  Kevin Honeycutt’s Cybersafety and Cyberbullying ...
  3 weeks ago

• Classroom 2.0 Live: Creating Widgets for Instructional Purposes

  
  The Unquiet Librarian — Authority: 418
  Classroom 2.0 LIVE! via kwout On Saturday, November 14 at noon EST, I will be the guest for the week on Classroom 2.0 Live!  I will be sharing ideas and strategies for “Creating Widgets for Instructional Purposes”, and you can access the webinar for free by clicking on this link. I’ll be discussing the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Never Stop Exploring

  
  Tame The Web — Authority: 119
  .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Never Stop Exploring , originally uploaded by Librarian In Black .
  3 weeks ago

• ""Netflix"-style library fees

  
  PVLD Director's Blog — Authority: 114
  Some of the staff members at PVLD have been tossing around the idea of a Netflix-style book delivery service for some time, but have found it is more complicated than it seems both in terms of the back-end software, the staffing required, and the logistics of a large-scale mailing operation. This article about the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Signs Signs Everywhere!

  
  Tame The Web — Authority: 119
  Don’t miss: http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2009/11/7/signs-signs-everywhere-theres-signs.html I walk into too many libraries with signs like this: What might happen if we replaced our welcome signs with ones like these? Where would kids learn best? OK, let me have it.
  3 weeks ago

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