Web 2'0 and Library 2'0

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Web 2.0 and Library 2.0
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• Ezra Shiloba Gbaje
• shiloba_at_yahoo.com
• Department of Library and Information Science
• Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria

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Library 2.0

• Library 2.0 is defined as the application of
  interactive, collaborative, and multi-media
  web-based technologies to web-based library
  services and collections,
• - Maness J.M (2006)

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Web 2.0

• "Web 1.0" was done for users
• created by webmasters, organizations, businesses,
  and web-savvy individuals
• Web 2.0 done more by users
• sharing almost anything
• personal preferences and ratings of content
• transparency, openness, secrets bared
• users create new content and tools

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Web 2.0 Tools

• Blogs
• RSS
• Instant messaging/Chat
• Media sharing
• Flickr
• Social bookmarking
• Social cataloging
• Social citations
• Second Live
• Wikis

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Personal Space Services

• Social networking
• starts with your profile your unique personal
  space
• add photos, videos, links, events, details about
  you
• reach out through email, chat, blogs, browsing,
  searching
• MySpace most used website after Google Yahoo
  (U.S.)
• huge ( gt160 million users, adding 300,000 per
  day)
• international, open to anyone
• many types of content, media, and networking
• Facebook most used after MySpace, MSN,
  YouTube (U.S.)
• huge ( gt17 million users)
• largely academic, higher ed
• open to everyone organizations now English
  only
• Ning outpacing both MySpace Facebook
• join groups with common interest, form networks
  with your focus
• add blogs, join discussions, invite members
  more "grown up" ?

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Photo Sharing

• Flickr
• organize into sets
• manage dates, traffic
• put into a Yahoo map
• share, get seen
• invite individuals or groups to view
• create your groups. join others
• management options
• can set permissions flickr.com/creativecommons
• put pictures into web page flickr.com/tools
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Video Sharing

• YouTube
• opinions, events, personal life, "reality TV"
• search tags, descriptions, titles
• browse communities, categories, channels
• developer kit - API to put access to video web
  page/blog
• Videos also in MySpace FaceBook

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Podcast Sharing

• Yahoo Podcasts podcasts.yahoo.com
• Upload, search, browse
• series and episodes search
• content from distributors, publishers, networks
• also personal podcasts
• listen without/with special software
• download to iTunes or Yahoo's media players
• Subscribe to feeds of podcasts
• requires music player software or mp3 player
• Instructions for creating podcasts
• podcasts.yahoo.com/publish

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