Collections 2.0

Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge May 18, 2008

Margaret MellingerOregon State University Libraries

Collections 2.0, really?

Web 2.0 is:

• Decentralization

• Small pieces loosely joined

• Perpetual beta

• User as contributor

• Rich user experience

• Remixable Content

Coombs, Karen A. 2007. “Building a Library Web Site on the Pillars of Web 2.0 Infotoday 27 (1).

Everything is miscellaneous. . .

1st Order of Order 2nd Order of Order 3rd Order of Order

Collections are physical items

Information about 1st Order

objects

Both objects and metadata can be digital

Everything is on the network. . .

| Space | Expertise | Systems | Services |

Vertically integrated

around local collections

Integrated around local, regional and

consortial collections

Digital Collections

Services moving to the

network

Examples of Web 2.0 “collections”

Visual collections• Flickr• Internet Archive

Moving Images

Music collections• Discogs• Pandora

Book collections• Library Thing• Shelfari

Bookmark collections• De.licio.us• CiteULike• Connotea• Zotero

Visual Collections

Book Collections

Other book collection sites

Bookmark collections

Del.icio.us

Zotero

citeulike

Connotea

Music Collections

Implications for Libraries

Implications for Libraries

With new web technologies, people create collections of their own content, and mix them with open web content and library content and share them with others.

Users add value to library collections the more they use them.

Implications for Libraries

Build new entry points for users to discover library collections

Design collections that allow users to re-mix, share and attribute pieces of library content

New Entry Points

Help users re-mix, share, attribute

Scholar’s Box

tafiti

The future means

. . .both print and electronic communication

. . .both linear text and hypertext

. . .both mediation by librarians and direct access

. . .both collections and access.

. . .libraries that are both ediface and interface.

Crawford and Gorman. 1995. Future Libraries: Dreams Madness & Reality. Chicago: ALA Editions.

What are your predictions?

Image credits

Slide 2. Pigatto, Daniel F. “Web 2.0” http://www.flickr.com/photos/pigatto/332193181/ uploaded 12/24/2006.

Slide 3. Fichter, Darlene. “Library 2.0 Formula” http://www.flickr.com/photos/fichter/114899622/ uploaded 3/19/2006.

References

Coombs, Karen A. 2007. “Building a Library Web Site on the Pillars of Web 2.0 Infotoday 27 (1).

Weinberger, David. Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. New York: Times Books, 2007.

Dempsey, Lorcan. The network reconfigures the library: people and places, collections and services. LIR Seminar 2008, Liberty Hall, Dublin. http://www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/lir.ppt

Questions, comments, discussion