This document discusses the concept of "Library 2.0" and how academic libraries can embrace new technologies and changing user needs to transition into digital environments. The key aspects of developing an Academic Library 2.0 include knowing your users, developing a culture of assessment and learning, keeping up with emerging technologies, making collections more visible and accessible online, enabling academic work through new spaces and services, and internally rewarding staff who take risks and contribute new ideas.

1. Building Academic
Library 2.0
Meredith Farkas
Association of Christian Librarians

2. So what is library 2.0?

3. Web 1.0: Democratized
Access to Information

4. Web 2.0: Democratized
Participation

5. Revolutionary or evolutionary?
http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/08/24/library-20-ripples-another-go-at-the-graph/

6. What is different now?

7. Technology has enabled
us to do so much more

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

9. 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

10. Building Academic
Library 2.0: Surveying
the Landscape

11. Know your users

12. Develop a Culture of
Assessment

13. Develop a Learning Culture

14. Keeping Up

15. Develop your keep-
up strategy
•most important to your are
Determine what topics
continuing ed.

16. Develop your keep-
up strategy
•most important to your are
Determine what topics
continuing ed.
• Choose your filters

17. Filters
•Professional journals
•Blogs
•Podcasts
•Webcasts
•Conferences
•People

18. Develop your keep-
up strategy
•most important to your are
Determine what topics
continuing ed.
• Choose your filters
• Find tools to help you keep
up

19. Tools for Keeping Up

20. Tools for Keeping Up

21. Tools for Keeping Up

22. Develop your keep-
up strategy
•most important to your are
Determine what topics
continuing ed.
• Choose your filters
• Find tools to help you keep
up
• Accept that you can't keep up
with everything

23. Build your Network

25. Building Academic
Library 2.0:
Embracing Change

26. Question Everything

27. Develop a Risk-
Tolerant Culture

28. Beware the Culture of Perfect

29. Be Agile

30. Building Academic
Library 2.0: Enabling
Academic Work

31. What do THEY want?

32. Build the Spaces they Want

38. Communicate with
your Users

42. Become More
Transparent

45. Translate Traditional
Services Online

50. Allow Users to Connect
around Collections

58. Integrate the Online
Research Experience

66. Make the Library a Creative
Technology Lab

69. Collect Knowledge to
Benefit Everyone

74. Building Academic
Library 2.0: Making
Collections More Visible
and Accessible

75. Use 2.0 Tools to
Highlight Collections

82. Be Where our Users Are

86. Market Ideas Effectively

87. Building Academic
Library 2.0: Looking
Beyond our Library

88. Get out of the Library and Join
the University

89. Create Partnerships

91. Look at what’s happening
outside of libraries

92. Building Academic
Library 2.0: Internally

93. Reward Failure

94. Give Staff Time for
Creative Endeavors

95. Collect Knowledge
Internally

98. Be Transparent

99. Good Ideas can Come from
Anyone and Anywhere

100. Involve Staff from All
Levels in Planning

101. Nurture Talent

102. Understand Staff Needs
and Limitations

103. Time Must be Devoted to all This

104. Will you need to create
new jobs or just shuffle?

105. Tips for Implementing
New Services or
Technologies

106. Choosing a Project
• Avoid technolust
• Know your population
• Weigh your options through play
• Understand the culture of each
technology

107. Selling ideas to
colleagues
• Have plenty of hard data
• Have a prototype
• Encourage staff to “kick the tires”
• Offer training for staff
• Be patient

108. Selling ideas to IT
• Involve IT in planning
• Know your stuff
• Build relationships and find
champions

109. Consider the
day-to-day
• Do you need a policy?
• Do you need maintenance
procedures?

110. Promotion
• Marketing
• Website
• All over campus
• Local media
• Faculty – build into a course
• Focus on functionality
• Training

111. Assessment
• How do you assess?
• Usage statistics
• Surveys
• Most libraries aren’t doing any
assessment of social tools

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

113. Thanks!
mgfarkas@gmail.com
AIM: librarianmer
Links and presentation at
http://meredithfarkas.wetpaint.com