Collections 2.0

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Collections
2.0
Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge May
18, 2008 Margaret Mellinger Oregon State
University Libraries
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Collections 2.0, really?
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Web 2.0 is

• Decentralization
• Small pieces loosely joined
• Perpetual beta

• User as contributor
• Rich user experience
• Remixable Content

Coombs, Karen A. 2007. Building a Library Web
Site on the Pillars of Web 2.0 Infotoday 27 (1).
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Everything is miscellaneous. . .
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1st Order of Order 2nd Order of Order
3rd Order of Order
Collections are physical items
Information about 1st Order objects
Both objects and metadata can be digital
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Everything is on the network. . .
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Space Expertise Systems
Services
Vertically integrated around local collections
Integrated around local, regional and consortial
collections
Digital Collections Services moving to the network
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Examples of Web 2.0 collections

• Visual collections
• Flickr
• Internet Archive Moving Images
• Music collections
• Discogs
• Pandora

• Book collections
• Library Thing
• Shelfari
• Bookmark collections
• De.licio.us
• CiteULike
• Connotea
• Zotero

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Visual Collections
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Book Collections
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Other book collection sites
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Bookmark collections
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Del.icio.us
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Zotero
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citeulike
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Connotea
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Music Collections
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Implications for Libraries
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Implications for Libraries

• With new web technologies, people create
  collections of their own content, and mix them
  with open web content and library content and
  share them with others.
• Users add value to library collections the more
  they use them.

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Implications for Libraries

• Build new entry points for users to discover
  library collections

• Design collections that allow users to re-mix,
  share and attribute pieces of library content

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New Entry Points
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Help users re-mix, share, attribute
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Scholars Box
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The future means

• . . .both print and electronic communication
• . . .both linear text and hypertext
• . . .both mediation by librarians and direct
  access

• . . .both collections and access.
• . . .libraries that are both ediface and
  interface.

Crawford and Gorman. 1995. Future Libraries
Dreams Madness Reality. Chicago ALA Editions.
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What are your predictions?
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Image credits

• Slide 2. Pigatto, Daniel F. Web 2.0
  http//www.flickr.com/photos/pigatto/332193181/
  uploaded 12/24/2006.
• Slide 3. Fichter, Darlene. Library 2.0 Formula
  http//www.flickr.com/photos/fichter/114899622/
  uploaded 3/19/2006.

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References

• Coombs, Karen A. 2007. Building a Library Web
  Site on the Pillars of Web 2.0 Infotoday 27 (1).
• Weinberger, David. Everything is Miscellaneous
  The Power of the New Digital Disorder. New York
  Times Books, 2007.
• Dempsey, Lorcan. The network reconfigures the
  library people and places, collections and
  services. LIR Seminar 2008, Liberty Hall, Dublin.
  
• http//www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempse
  y/lir.ppt

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Questions, comments, discussion