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Serving Digital Citizens : Public Libraries in the 21stC?

Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN, University of Bath, UKAssociate Director, UK Digital Curation Centre

LGA / MLA Conference, London, December 2009

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Rise of the

digital citizen...

http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/Nine_Elements.html

...how should Public

Libraries engage?

C21st digital citizens today

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In the media

District of Columbia Public Library

“1 in 5 new apps in the Apple store last month was an ebook. There are now 10,000 ebooks for the iPhone & iPod Touch...”

1. The mobile Public Library?

“Go mobile: take the Library to the People.”

Blogging to promote local history

Community curation to improve text

2. The social space :

....promoting communication, conversation, curation

“Get social: community participation adds value.”

Mass participation...

110 years later: still engaging the public in

(citizen) science

....a citizen science hub?

3. The new Public Library...

“Be creative: innovate and transform in the 21stC.”

“Civic engagement as Library mission..”

Allen County PL

Take homes…1. Go mobile: take the Library to the People2. Get social: community participation adds value3. Be creative: innovate and transform in 2010...

Slides will be available at :http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/presentations.html

New

in

2010?