Building Academic Library 2.0 - Association of Christian Librarians

Building Academic Library 2.0

Meredith FarkasAssociation of Christian Librarians

So what is library 2.0?

Web 1.0: Democratized Access to Information

Web 2.0: Democratized Participation

Revolutionary or evolutionary?

http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/08/24/library-20-ripples-another-go-at-the-graph/

What is different now?

Technology has enabled us to do so much more

but we’re no longer the only game in town.

Academic Library 2.0 is a state of mind

•Working to meet changing user needs

•Trusting our users (radical trust)

•Getting rid of the culture of perfect

•Aware of emerging technologies and opportunities

•Looking outside of the library world for applications, opportunities, inspiration

Building Academic Library 2.0: Surveying

the Landscape

Know your users

Develop a Culture of Assessment

Develop a Learning Culture

Keeping Up

Develop your keep-up strategy

•Determine what topics are most important to your continuing ed.

Develop your keep-up strategy

•Determine what topics are most important to your continuing ed.

•Choose your filters

Filters

•Professional journals

•Blogs

•Podcasts

•Webcasts

•Conferences

•People

Develop your keep-up strategy

•Determine what topics are most important to your continuing ed.

•Choose your filters

•Find tools to help you keep up

Tools for Keeping Up

Tools for Keeping Up

Tools for Keeping Up

Develop your keep-up strategy

•Determine what topics are most important to your continuing ed.

•Choose your filters

•Find tools to help you keep up

•Accept that you can't keep up with everything

Build your Network

Building Academic Library 2.0:

Embracing Change

Question Everything

Develop a Risk-Tolerant Culture

Beware the Culture of Perfect

Be Agile

Building Academic Library 2.0: Enabling

Academic Work

What do THEY want?

Build the Spaces they Want

Communicate with your Users

Become More Transparent

Translate Traditional Services Online

Allow Users to Connect around Collections

Integrate the Online Research Experience

Make the Library a Creative Technology Lab

Collect Knowledge to Benefit Everyone

Building Academic Library 2.0: Making

Collections More Visible and Accessible

Use 2.0 Tools to Highlight Collections

Be Where our Users Are

Market Ideas Effectively

Building Academic Library 2.0: Looking Beyond our Library

Get out of the Library and Join the University

Create Partnerships

Look at what’s happening outside of libraries

Building Academic Library 2.0: Internally

Reward Failure

Give Staff Time for Creative Endeavors

Collect Knowledge Internally

Be Transparent

Good Ideas can Come from Anyone and Anywhere

Involve Staff from All Levels in Planning

Nurture Talent

Understand Staff Needs and Limitations

Time Must be Devoted to all This

Will you need to create new jobs or just shuffle?

Tips for Implementing New Services or

Technologies

Choosing a Project

• Avoid technolust

• Know your population

• Weigh your options through play

• Understand the culture of each technology

Selling ideas to colleagues

• Have plenty of hard data

• Have a prototype

• Encourage staff to “kick the tires”

• Offer training for staff

• Be patient

Selling ideas to IT

• Involve IT in planning

• Know your stuff

• Build relationships and find champions

Consider the day-to-day

• Do you need a policy?

• Do you need maintenance procedures?

Promotion• Marketing

• Website

• All over campus

• Local media

• Faculty – build into a course

• Focus on functionality

• Training

Assessment

• How do you assess?

• Usage statistics

• Surveys

• Most libraries aren’t doing any assessment of social tools

Is your organization (as it is currently structured) able to make all this happen?

Thanks!

mgfarkas@gmail.comAIM: librarianmer

Links and presentation athttp://meredithfarkas.wetpaint.com