Iain Wallace Digital Services Development Librarian

Spoken Word Serviceswww.spokenword.ac.uk

Library 2.0

Back in the day

The 'Google Generation'

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User Expectations

Spoken Word Services

Use web services & apis

LibraryThing OCLC WorldCat Grid Services Amazon Web Services Google Book Search API

Other Libraries demos• University of Huddersfieldhttp://webcat.hud.ac.uk/ • Ann Arbor District Libraryhttp://www.aadl.org/catalog • Darien Libraryhttp://www.darienlibrary.org/catalog • Plymouth State Universityhttp://library.plymouth.edu/ • North Carolina State Universityhttp://www.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/

Vendors• Talis Platform• Bowker AquaBrowser• Ex Libris Primo• Innovative Interfaces Encore• SirsiDynix – Enterprise?

Buildings 2.0?!

Rethink learning spaces

Not Library 2.0!

What can you do now?• Think about what your users (and non-

users) want and need

• Learn from others in your community• Blogging• Podcasting• Experiment with

Delicious/Flickr/Facebook/etc• New generation OPACs?

Some ‘stars’ of ‘Library 2.0’

• Dave Pattern, University of Huddersfieldhttp://www.daveyp.com/blog/ • Paul Miller & Richard Wallis, TALIS - http://librarygang.talis.com • Michael Casey, Gwinnett County Public

Library - http://librarycrunch.com/ • John Blyberg, Darien Library -

http://www.blyberg.net/ • Casey Bisson, Plymouth State Universityhttp://maisonbisson.com/blog/ • Library 2.0 tag at Delicious -

http://delicious.com/tag/library2.0

Blogging• Wordpress.com, Blogger.com, etc.• Very easy to set up and maintain (no

software or tech knowledge required)• RSS pushes updates to users• Comments functionality encourages

interaction• Syndication encourages collaboration and

generates publicity• Can have different blogs for different

purposes/subjects

• Some examples online ….

Podcasting• Pretty simple to set up• Fits will with blogging – uses same RSS

technology to push new ‘episodes’• Can be accessed anytime/anywhere• Accessible via browser or downloaded to

portable device (music player/phone, etc.)

• Sound and video can bring subject to life• Screencasts can capture screen

behaviour for e-resources

• Some examples online …

Make an Opac 2.0 wishlistDIY and/or Vendor Support?• Personalisation• spell checking (“did you mean?”)• search all library resources (inc. e-

resources) • relevancy ranking, search refining, and

facets• manual recommendations (“best bets”)• automated suggestions (based on both global and user-specific

data)• user participation (“read-write OPAC”)

With thanks to Dave P

If all else fails

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Further Information

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Iain WallaceDigital Services Development LibrarianE: iain.wallace@gcal.ac.uk T: 0141 273 1901W: http://www.spokenword.ac.uk