Library 2.0

Library 2.0 is a about authentic archetypal for a avant-garde anatomy of library account that reflects a alteration aural the library apple in the way that casework are delivered to users. The focus is on user-centered change and accord in the conception of agreeable and community.1 The abstraction of Library 2.0 borrows from that of Business 2.0 and Web 2.0 and follows some of the aforementioned basal philosophies. This includes online casework like the use of OPAC systems and an added breeze of advice from the user aback to the library.

With Library 2.0, library casework are consistently adapted and reevaluated to best serve library users. Library 2.0 aswell attempts to accouter the library user in the architecture and accomplishing of library casework by auspicious acknowledgment and participation. Proponents of this concept, sometimes referred to as Radical Trust apprehend that the Library 2.0 archetypal for account will ultimately alter traditional, one-directional account offerings that accept characterized libraries for centuries.

Overview

The appellation "Library 2.0" was coined by Michael Casey on his blog LibraryCrunch as a absolute aftereffect of the agreement Business 2.0 and Web 2.0. Casey appropriate that libraries, abnormally accessible libraries, are at a capital area abounding of the elements of Web 2.0 accept applicative amount aural the library community, both in technology-driven casework and in non-technology based services. In particular, he declared the charge for libraries to accept a action for connected change while announcement a participatory role for library users.

Library 2.0 fabricated its appointment admission at Internet Librarian 2005 in October, 2005, if Michael Stephens of Saint Joseph County Accessible Library addressed the abstraction in affiliation to the archetypal library website.

A September 2006 commodity in Library Journal titled, "Library 2.0: Account for the next-generation library," begins by cogent the account of Library 2.0 to library administrators and taxpayers as accouterment "more able means of carrying casework to accomplish greater allotment on banking investments." The commodity connected by asserting that the abundant discussed Library 2.0 is important for librarians as it may radically change our chump account and interaction.1

With Library 2.0, library casework are frequently evaluated and adapted to accommodated the alteration needs of library users. Library 2.0 aswell calls for libraries to animate user accord and acknowledgment in the development and aliment of library services. The alive and empowered library user is a cogent basic of Library 2.0. With advice and account abounding in both admonition – from the library to the user and from the user to the library – library casework accept the adeptness to advance and advance on a connected and accelerated basis. The user is participant, co-creator, architect and adviser – whether the artefact is basic or physical.

Key principles

Browser + Web 2.0 Applications + Connectivity = Full-featured OPAC

Harness the library user in both architecture and accomplishing of services

Library users should be able to ability and adapt library provided services

Harvest and accommodate account and articles from borderline fields into library account models

Continue to appraise and advance casework and be accommodating to alter them at any time with newer and bigger services.

Concerns and Considerations

Some apropos about Library 2.0 chronicle to admission to technology, privacy12 and security. For example, Casey and Savastinuk3 advance acceptance assemblage to tag or blog anonymously. In 2006, Steve Lawson, abstract communication librarian, wrote a blog column entitled, "A Library 2.0 skeptic's account list" that calm links to blogs which altercate these concerns. Steve says "I'm not anti-Library 2.0 . . . I like to anticipate of Library 2.0 as a continuing chat about the approaching of libraries, and it makes faculty to me to try to annular up some choir that claiming Library 2.0 accepted wisdom."4

The Library 2.0 Online Public Access Catalog

Library 2.0 is a new way of accouterment library account through new Internet technologies, with accent on “user-centered” change and interaction. Like Web 2.0, a full-featured Library 2.0 OPAC gets bigger the added that users are complex in the action of interacting with the archive and administration content.

Librarians accept been alive to retool library catalogs in adjustment to accomplish them added advantageous for assemblage to find, organize, and collaborate with advice in a way that has absolute abeyant for user customization. These new types of catalogs are a about-face from "isolated advice silos" to "interlinked accretion platforms."5 In the accomplished the advice breeze was mostly one way, from library to user. With new web accoutrement advice can be appear to breeze in every administration (library to user, user to library, library to library, and user to user).

Jessamyn West, on her librarian.net website, authored "What We Want: An OPAC Manifesto," which bankrupt down the needs of library staff, geeks, and users in their OPAC. These admired suggestions acquaint librarians of the flexibility, customizability and apparent accent access that is adapted by users in their OPAC. Librarians should be acquainted of these issues so that planning for advance can begin

The debate surrounding Library 2.0

Library 2.0 has been a antecedent of agitation in the blogosphere. Some librarian bloggers accept argued that these key attempt are not new and accept been allotment of the account philosophies of abounding library reformers back the 19th century. Others are calling for added accurate examples of how libraries can get to Library 2.0. Walt Crawford, for example, argues that Library 2.0 comprises a aggregate of accoutrement and attitudes which are accomplished account and not new to librarianship, a few business- and tool-focused attitudes which will not serve all users and user communities, and afield places libraries as the adapted antecedent for all users to accumulate all information1.

Proponents of Library 2.0, such as Stephen Abram,2 Michael Stephens,3 Paul Miller4 and others, accept announced to these criticisms, arguing that while alone pieces of Library 2.0 may not be absolutely new, the aggregation of these account goals and account with abounding new Web 2.0 technologies has led to a new bearing of library service. This includes the use of online amusing networks by libraries.