Community

The Read/Write Web
Opportunity
Aaron Schmidt
walkingpaper.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Second_Half_of_the_Chessboard.png
Learning
Community
Service
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wheatfields/1824579288/
usability
http://www.flickr.com/photos/librarianinblack/1519340450/
http://www.wilinet.wccls.lib.or.us/polaris/default.asp
http://www.wccls.org
http://booksandmovies.org
Try working on a PAC
worst case scenario
What happens if our content
becomes irrelevant because
of...
...format?
...delivery?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wetwebwork/2348398288/
hope
read/write web
people are creating and
exchanging information
for fun
we live in a participatory
culture
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information is worthless
without people
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattcarman/2251921430/
Books are for use
http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?cc=US&ts_mode=country&lang=none
http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?cc=ES&ts_mode=country
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jvk/229254801/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/roberto_ferrari/185339343/
RSS + XML +
CSS + APIs = Zzzzz
social tools aren’t
interesting until the
technology becomes
boring
-Clay Shirky
people have a say
people are featured
Domino’s BFD
people are connecting
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffhester/431918019/
people are doing
library work online
for fun
http://sls.gvboces.org/gaming/standards
Games are content
Library Communities
• Knitting circle
• Book group
• Storytime
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jason_coleman/333564097/
Some have tried smoking rooms, had
boy!s club rooms and games, and
many have tried simply to make the
rooms homelike and cheery, and all
of their experience is valuable to us.
Miss Gratia Alta Countryman
1905
the read/write web in
libraries
this isn’t about
technology
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kjane/789626281/
patrons
effort
effort
effort
effort
library
patrons
effort
effort
effort
google, et al.
patrons
effort
effort
google, et al.
effort
library
effort
effort
library
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6qZsISRTZM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwihz7iZlx0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maisonbisson/2333754008/
davidleeking.com/2007/11/30/fun-with-our-meebo-widget-and-the-library-catalog/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevingrahame/289516579/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuart100/603482161/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/xploded/222036777/
online identities
storage space
user reviews
We need social OPACs
interaction
user organized
homepages
http://www.flickr.com/photos/luc/1824234195/
The whole building at all times
should be managed in the
broadest spirit of hospitality; the
atmosphere should be as gracious,
kindly and sympathetic as one!s
own home. Then do away with all
unnecessary restrictions, take
down all the bars, and try to put
face to face our friends the books
and our friends the people.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gustavog/9708628/
Questions?
walkingpaper.org
librarian@gmail.com
AIM: XXagentcooperXX
Miss Gratia Alta Countryman