Building Library 3.0. Issues in Creating a Culture of Participation

191 Pages·2009·2.641 MB·English

by  Woody Evans (Auth.)

Building Library 3.0
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Building Library 3.0
Issues in creating a culture of
participation
W E
OODY VANS
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First published in 2009
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List of abbreviations
AIM AOL Instant Messenger
ALA American Library Association
CIPA Children’s Internet Protection Act
COI community of interest
COPPA Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
DDMS Department of Defense Metadata
Specification
FRBR functional requirements for bibliographic
records
ILL inter-library lending
ILS integrated library system
MARC Machine-Readable Cataloguing
MMOG massively multiplayer online game
MMORPG massively multiplayer online role-playing
game
MPAA Motion Picture Association of America
MUD multi-user dungeon
MUFON Mutual UFO Network
NMC New Media Consortium
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
OCLC Online Computer Library Center
OPAC online public access catalogue
RDA resource description and access
RDF resource description framework
RFID radio frequency identification
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RIAA Recording Industry Association of
America
STAR-TIDES Sustainable Technologies, Accelerated
Research – Transportable Infrastructures
for Development and Emergency Support
XML eXtensible Markup Language
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List of figures
1.1 Web 2.0 Snapshot of Ideas 5
1.2 Traditional library card catalog 12
2.1 We have had time to become accustomed to
technology, now 18
2.2 Books, machines, grandpas, and babies 19
2.3 Patrons working with information in multiple
media 27
3.1 Hierarchy in taxonomies 34
3.2 Tag cloud of relative world populations 37
3.3 del.icio.us pattern emergence? 43
4.1 Friendster start page 51
4.2 hi5 speaks Turkish 63
4.3 Ning, for advanced social networking options 66
5.1 No phones! 76
5.2 Nice socks, nice jeans, nice code 80
5.3 QR Code for Wikipedia 81
5.4 Books with QR Code 83
6.1 Second Life grid logo 86
6.2 Will Crowther’s MUD from 1984 87
6.3 RuneScape is an extremely popular world 90
6.4 RuneScape server locations map 91
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6.5 Ecole SL (French school) 100
6.6 Learning Space on Info Island 102
7.1 Stop RFID? 109
7.2 Examples of RFID barcodes 112
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Acknowledgements
Thanks are due to more folks than I could mention, but I must
especially thank the following for shaping me as a librarian or
as a writer. Thanks to Derek Reece, Jo Klemm, Mark D’Olive,
and Andrew Strohschein for thinking hard and talking hard so
often about libraries and their future. Thanks to Joseph Mehl
for arguing for a better world, and working for one. Thanks to
Deb Liptak for the smarts, generosity, and for encouraging me
to query Barbara Quint (thanks to bq for being a really great
editor). Thanks to Steven Barthelme for letting me in on so
many writing workshops, and for being tough with me.
Thanks to Andrew Albanese. Thanks to the anthropology and
library science departments at the University of Southern
Mississippi – especially to James Flanagan and Teresa Welsh.
Thanks to the librarians of Tarrant County College, Air
Combat Command, and of Hattiesburg’s public library.
Thanks to my family and friends, my parents Kenny Evans and
Sherry Huckeby, my sister April Ralston, my uncle Steven
Markley, and my grandfather, Robert Evans. Thanks to my
brother, Jared Hegwood.
Thanks to my wife, Aubree Evans, for the faith.
Thanks to all those librarians who stink like the black dregs
of burnt coffee pots and tobacco smoke, lapels stained with
Red Bull and baby spit-up, who come to work hungry to serve
the common good, zealous about getting the information to
the people – to the librarians, the library staff, who believe in
it, who pour their hearts into it. Who fight for it.
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