Learning 2.0 @ MCL

Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Outline

• Features of Library 2.0• Libraries have the power to…• Library users have the power to…• The MCL Learning 2.0 Program• Questions to ask about new web tools

Features of Library 2.0

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Read / write web

Social

Hive Mind

Mashups

Perpetual beta

Web as platform

Library 2.0 changes the balance of power in our libraries

Get out of our buildings

Be in our users’ space

Share information quickly

Speak in our own voices

Risk

Collaborate

Match the tool to the user

Create the library

Bypass us

To laugh at us if we get defensive

2.0 Patrons Want: Uploaded to Flickr on September 12, 2007 by libraryman

Learning 2.0

Learning 2.0

• Weekly exercises• Exposure not mastery• Write & reflect on blog

How will this help library patrons? What risk is associated

with this? Am I ready for it?

Could we implement this in beta without it being perfect?

Collaborate ?Hear us speak with a human

voice?Get our resources more easily

than other ones online?Create the library ?

Does this help my users to:

Does it help me to go where the users are?

Does this change the power balance between libraries and our users ?

• Time• Money• Skills• Lost opportunity

What is the cost?

What are the consequences if we don’t try this ?

What are the consequences if we try this?

Credits

Questions Uploaded on December 11, 2006by oberazzi (Tim O'Brien)

Slideshow by Kathryn GreenhillMurdoch University LibrarySlides at: LibrariansMatter.comDownloaded from: Slideshare

Modified by Abigail Elder