Physical and digital

1
Physical and digital the concept of Library
2.0 and Norwegian public libraries

• Ragnar Nordlie
• Oslo University College

2
Challenges are well known

• Traditional library materials (books,
  periodicals) become deliverable in digital form
• New materials (images, sound) become deliverable
  in similar form through similar channels
• New communication channels allows contact with
  expertise (e.g. Reference librarians) without
  physical presence
• Computer access ubiquitous (at home, in
  workplace)
• Information literacy integrated in education,
  population becomes self-sufficient searchers(?)

3

• So far, little change in apparent belief in the
  value of the physical library
• building boom in new, prestigious library
  buildings
• Institutional cooperation between public and
  academic libraries
• - but what about the content?

4
Web 2.0 the second-generation internet

• A new phase in the interaction of the World Wide
  Web with society?
• Major difference web user as participant, not
  only consumer of services
• more power to the user
• Examples of Web 2.0 services
• Wikipedia (vs. Britannica online)
• Blog (vs. personal homepage)
• Flickr (sharing digital images)
• Amazon (online bookstore with reader and
  automatic recommendations)

5
Library 2.0 - more power to the user?

• Library blogs in addition to library homepages
  news from library, feedback to library
• LibraryThing shared cataloging (where users do
  the sharing)
• Folksonomies and tagging user-provided
  subject headings (e.g. in local history photo
  collections)

6
Challenge to library as place?

• How to preserve authority and professionalism
• How to integrate user participation in current
  services
• How to promote value of shared space in
  digital setting
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