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Do You Web 2.0?
Public Libraries and Social Networking
Linda Berube (Author)
9781843344360, Elsevier Science
Paperback / softback, published 3 May 2011
160 pages
23.3 x 15.6 x 1.2 cm, 0.3 kg
"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
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.
List of figures List of acronyms About the author Acknowledgements Prologue Do you Web 2.0? A confession About the book About the readers of this book Part I: Public libraries and social networking: can we Web 2.0? Chapter 1: Public libraries and digital climate change A sign of the times We’ve been here before ‘By increment or revolution’ Chapter 2: 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? Part II: Web 2.0 tools and the librarians who love them: an overview Chapter 3: 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 Part III: By increment and revolution: libraries getting to Web 2.0 Chapter 4: 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 Part IV: ‘Tilling the soil, seeding the ideas’: the Web 2.0 business case Chapter 5: 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 Chapter 6: Exceeding your stretch: a conclusion In the beginning, the future A stretch too far? References and resources Index
Subject Areas: Databases & the Web [UNN], Internet: general works [UBW], Library & information sciences [GL]
