On Library 2.0&Web 2.0

From my exploring webs this week, the most important thing I found out is the term ‘Library 2.0’ and ‘Web 2.0’. Web 2.0 means a second generation of web-based communities and hosted services, like Wikis, Weblogs, RSS feed etc. Their aim is facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. The term ‘Library 2.0’ is a modernized form of library service that reflects a transition within the library world in the way that services are delivered to users. It’s borrows from that of Business2.0 and Web 2.0. Such a good idea, vivid and easy to follow! It includes online services like the use of OPAC systems.

I’ve read through those five perspectives, and I chose two of them to disscuss.
1. Away from the ‘icebergs’—Rick Anderson
Reading through this article, I was quite shocked by the author’s opinion and the statistic that mentioned in the article, he said “in my library, we’ve seen a 55% drop in circulation rates over the past 12 years’. In this Digital era, traditional libraries are facing a huge challenge. They are losing traditional customers who borrow books regularly, mainly because the using of other electronic resources, such as Internet, DVD, CD-ROM or CD. After reading the article, I started to worry about the future of libraries. Perhaps we really need to think about it seriously.

2. Into a new world of librarianship—Michael Stephens
This article also talked about the libraries’ circumstance and challenges they are facing. As technology keep on developing, the librarians are also required to develop their skills to catch up with it. Though we don’t know exactly what change our libraries may have, but we can equip ourselves to adapt any change. Perhaps, the things we can do including planning further studying, grasping Web 2.0, recognizing the contemporary world, seeking information and so on, to receive any challenges, Be Brave!

Technorati

I took a look at Tchnorati and tried to do the keyword search for ‘Learning 2.0’ in posts, Blog and tags. I found out 6965 results in posts, 715 in Blogs and 345 in tags. I assumed that not everything was added the same tags about ‘learning 2.0’. With the function of Technorati, we can check out those popular tags or blogposts to find out easily what people’s hot topics are currently.

Week 6 Tagging, folksomonies & social bookmarking in Del.icio.us

I have heard about ‘tag’ for a while but I’ve never found opportunities to know more or practice it. I’m a ‘bookworm’ instead of ‘webworm’. I read quite a lot books but not websites. Basically, I’m still a traditional type of person. Nowadays, everything seems become new to me, new terms, technologies or devices etc. I’ve to catch up with others, and that’s a big challenge fro me.

From WiKipedia, as a term in computing science, ‘tag’ can be Tags, HTML tag or Tag system etc. I assured that the ‘tag’ here refer to the definition of tags, which is a relevant keyword of term associated with or assigned to a piece of information, thus describing the term and enabling keyword-based classification and search for them. Tags are usually chosen informing and personally by people. I’ve also learned ‘tag cloud’, which is a visual description of content tags used on a website. I’ve ever seen them a few times but I didn’t realized that they are ‘a group of tags’.
The ‘tag’ we’re talking about here is different from the one for library subject cataloging. It’s more freedom and casual, they’re chosen by us, we can rename, save or delete them anytime.

I’ve explored Del.icio.us. I love this name, it’s pretty cool. I found out that a huge number of links already there for nearly everything. We can find anything we interested. I’ve tried to search the tag ‘web 2.0’, and then I got quite a few links and clicked some of them, they are very relevant. Next, I created an account in it, which is very ease to access. I added 3 tags in my account and saved them in my favourites. See http://del.icio.us/kathyfu2007/. It’s not hard but takes time to get familiar with it. I’ll do more later.

ROLLYO

The function of Rollyo is gathering a group of websites which are our favorites or a set of similar online resources, just like the point of view from BBC World

"Rollyo offers the ability to search the content of a list of specified websites, allowing you to narrow down the results to pages from websites that you already know and trust." -- BBC World.

It will be very usful and helpful search tool , especially when we are studying or doing research. I am going to use it if I study next year. There are so many amazing new stuff in websites. I think I would never known them if we don't have this chance to learn them. How luck we are!

LibraryThing

LibraryThing is so cool!!! I created an account there and there was only one step to go: user name plus password. That's all!! Unbelievable! Usually we need to provide more information to sign up in the websites. But LibraryThing is different. I love it and feel relax to deal with it.

When I went into it, I found those books whatever I like. There are titles, authors, descriptions, reviews and so on. It's another type of library. I think I'm going to use it frequently from now on.

Week 5 Play week

Online image generator is another new thing to me. I

played around and was so amazed about it. There are so many kinds of web to let us generate different things. I tried a few of them and some of them seem not friendly. e.g. I went to the web of Garfield Comic Strip Generator. I made images and couldn't save it in any way except print it out.

Then I tried Reflectiobn Generator and succeeded. It's easy to follow so I made the picture as shown right-hand

side. http://www.reflectionmaker.com/

I made these two little images by using DoppelMe Avatar Generator. I like it because it's quite easy and so fun. Though it seems a bit childish, I still enjoyed it. You may try it if you haven't. http://www.doppelme.com/create/step2.asp