Collections 2.0
Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge
May 18, 2008
Margaret Mellinger
Oregon State University Libraries
Collections 2.0, really?
Web 2.0 is:
• Decentralization
• User as contributor
• Small pieces
loosely joined
• Rich user
experience
• Perpetual beta
• 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
Collections are
physical items
2nd Order of Order
Information
about 1st Order
objects
3rd Order of Order
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/33219
3181/ uploaded 12/24/2006.
Slide 3. Fichter, Darlene. “Library 2.0
Formula”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fichter/114899
622/ 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