Wikipedia defines Web 2.0 like this: “The term Web 2.0 is commonly associated with web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web….Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but rather to cumulative changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the Web.”
Web 2.0 is collaboration – interactive information sharing through the web, moving from just reading a website to actually contributing to it.
First coined in 2004, the term Web 2.0 became the buzz word for technology on a social level that enabled “regular” people to add content and value to the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 concepts include social-networking sites like Facebook, video-sharing sites like YouTube, wikis, blogs, and more.
You will be exploring these, and other sites and technologies, through the 23 Things. In fact, this program was created using Web 2.0. (For instance, right now you are reading the 23 Things blog.)
Library 2.0
Library 2.0 is term used to describe a new set of concepts for developing and delivering library services. The name, as you may guess, is an extension of Web2.0, and shares many of its same philosophies and concepts. Patrons can interact with us on sites like Facebook, and they can even contribute content by adding tags and Patron Reviews in LS2PAC.
Some argue that Library 2.0 is more than just a term used to describe new technology concepts. It is also a term that can be used to describe both physical and mindset changes that are occurring within libraries to make our spaces and services more user-centric and inviting. Others say libraries have always been 2.0: collaborative, customer friendly and welcoming.
Beyond
Technology changes with astonishing speed. Both sides agree that libraries of tomorrow, even five or ten years from now, will look substantially different from libraries today.Brevard County Libraries 23 Things will help you learn about Web 2.0.
Thing #3 Activity: What is Web 2.0?
Step-by-Step Instructions:
1. Watch this video featuring Library Visionary and 23 Things inspiration Stephen Abram kicks off 23 Things at Murdoch University Library in Australia.
2. Consider: How has the Internet, and the vast resource it can be, affected your use of time at work and/or at home? Why are you participating in 23 Things program? What do you hope to learn?
3. Send an email message to 23things@brev.org saying what you hope to learn. Use Thing #3 as the subject of your email.
Optional Additional Resources:
For more about Web 2.0 and its impact on libraries, check out Web 2.0: Where will the next generation of the web take libraries? Five experts weighed in with their opinions on where Web 2.0 will take us:
o Away from the “icebergs”
o Into a new world of librarianship
o To more powerful ways to cooperate
o To better bibliographic services
o To a temporary place in time…
To read about how Web 2.0 started, you can read this article by Tim O’Reilly, What is Web 2.0?, from 2005. O’Reilly revisited the idea in 2009 with Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On.
The School Library Journal site has a section devoted to "Web 2.0" updates, here. It even has an RSS feed! (Thanks to Marlena Harold, SB, for this link!)
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