1. Collections 2.0 Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge May 18, 2008 Margaret Mellinger Oregon State University Libraries

4. Collections 2.0, really?

5. 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).

6. Everything is miscellaneous...

7. 1 st Order of Order 2 nd Order of Order 3 rd Order of Order Collections are physical items Information about 1 st Order objects Both objects and metadata can be digital

8. Everything is on the network...

9. | Space | Expertise | Systems | Services | Vertically integrated around local collections Integrated around local, regional and consortial collections Digital Collections Services moving to the network

10. 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

11. Visual Collections

25. Book Collections

31. Other book collection sites

32. Bookmark collections

33. Del.icio.us

36. Zotero

37. citeulike

38. Connotea

39. Music Collections

46. Implications for Libraries

47. 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.

48. 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

49. New Entry Points

62. Help users re-mix, share, attribute

63. Scholar’s Box

64. tafiti

65. 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.

66. What are your predictions?

67. Image credits Slide 2. Pigatto, Daniel F. “Web 2.0” http://www.flickr.com/photos/pigatto/33219 3181/ uploaded 12/24/2006. Slide 3. Fichter, Darlene. “Library 2.0 Formula” http://www.flickr.com/photos/fichter/11489 9622/ uploaded 3/19/2006.

68. 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

69. Questions, comments, discussion