Do You Web 2.0?: Public Libraries and Social Networking
Woodhead Publishing Ltd, May 2011, Pages: 160
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.
Key features:
- particularly geared to the public library setting
- advice on using in conjunction or integrated with other public library services
- examples of best practice
- how to make a web 2.0 business case
Readership: Public librarians, primarily but could be useful to other librarians.
Review:
"This concise guide to a hot topic is timely, perceptive and engagingly written.... Useful to public librarians and a worthy acquisition for university libraries supporting LIS students."
-- Managing Information
Prologue
- Do you Web 2.0? A confession
- About the book
- About the readers of this book
- Notes
PART 1: PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKING: CAN WE WEB 2.0?
Public libraries and digital climate change
- A sign of the times
- We’ve been here before
- ‘By increment or revolution’
- Notes
Web 2.0 ethos: hive mind and the wisdom of the crowd
- Do you Web 1.0?
- Or do you Web 2.0? The sliding scale of implementation
- To Web 2.0 or Library 2.0?
- Notes
PART 2: WEB 2.0 TOOLS AND THE LIBRARIANS WHO LOVE THEM: AN OVERVIEW
Do you Web 2.0? A round-up of Web 2.0 in public libraries
- All the news that’s fit to stream: RSS, blogs and podcasts
- It pays to share: photos, video, music, social networking
- Putting it all together: start pages and mash-ups
- Somewhere in the middle: wikis
- Do librarians really trust the wisdom of the crowd? Folksonomies, social bookmarking, tagging, social catalogues
- Conclusion
- Notes
PART 3: BY INCREMENT AND REVOLUTION: LIBRARIES GETTING TO WEB 2.0
A tale of one country
- The challenge to libraries
- Why British public libraries?
- A bit of UK public library pre-history
- A hierarchy of library online implementation
- Conclusion
- Notes
PART 4: ‘TILLING THE SOIL, SEEDING THE IDEAS’: THE WEB 2.0 BUSINESS CASE
Introducing Web 2.0
- The experiment level
- Proof of concept or pilot level
- Live service level
- Business case and participation framework
- Building the (business) case
- Business case best practice as exemplified in the case studies
- Notes
Exceeding your stretch: a conclusion
- In the beginning, the future
- A stretch too far?
References and resources
- References
- Further reading
- Libraries (corporate and/or related Web 2.0 sites)
- Web 2.0 tools
- Other websites and resources
Linda Berube is no stranger to using web services to transform public libraries. As a regional manager for e-services and e-procurement, she not only oversaw the distributed interoperability of library management systems, but also created and managed the implementation of a co-operative national chat service, the People's Network Enquire, in which over 100 English authorities and 500 staff participated. Enquire was voted overwhelmingly the People's Network service which added value to library service, by librarians in an independent study of the People's Network by the Tavistock Institute.
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