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Do You Web 2.0?

by Linda Berube

May 2011

Intermediate to advanced

160 pages

English

Chandos Publishing

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Do you Web 2.0? A confessionAbout the bookAbout the readers of this book

A sign of the timesWe’ve been here before‘By increment or revolution’
Do you Web 1.0?Or do you Web 2.0? The sliding scale of implementationTo Web 2.0 or Library 2.0?
All the news that’s fit to stream: RSS, blogs and podcastsIt pays to share: photos, video, music, social networkingPutting it all together: start pages and mash-upsSomewhere in the middle: wikisDo librarians really trust the wisdom of the crowd? Folksonomies, social bookmarking, tagging, social cataloguesConclusion
The challenge to librariesWhy British public libraries?A bit of UK public library pre-historyA hierarchy of library online implementationConclusion
The experiment levelProof of concept or pilot levelLive service levelBusiness case and participation frameworkBuilding the (business) caseBusiness case best practice as exemplified in the case studies
In the beginning, the futureA stretch too far?

Overview

Web 2.0 technology is a hot topic at the moment, and public librarians in particular are beginning to feel the pressure to apply these tools. Indeed, Web 2.0 has the potential to transform library services, but only if the policy and strategy for those services are ready to be transformed. The author not only reviews these tools and provides practical advice and case studies on how they can be applied in the public library setting, but also recommends the policies and business cases that begin to create a new strategy for public libraries.