CGCRI 2011CGCRI 2011

National Seminar on Information and National Seminar on Information and Knowledge Dissemination: present Knowledge Dissemination: present

status and futurestatus and future

May 6-7, 2011May 6-7, 2011

Organized byOrganized by

CGCRI, KolkataCGCRI, Kolkata

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11Venue: Meghnad Saha Auditorium, CGCRI, Kolkata - 700032

Moving beyond library websites: Role of Library 2.0 in interactive

library services

By

Hari Prasad SharmaBengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur

Howrah 711 103, West Bengal, Indiae-mail: sharma_hp@hotmail.com

andShyamal Ghosh

JIS College of Engineering, Kalyani Nadia 741 235, West Bengal, India

e-mail: sg.libsys@gmail.com

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World Wide WebWorld Wide Web

The World Wide Web (WWW) was developed in 1989 by CERN physicist Tim Berners-Lee. Later, CERN announced that WWW would be free to use for anyone. Before the introduction of HTML and HTTP, protocols such as FTP and Gopher were used to retrieve individual file. These protocols offer a simple directory structure which the user navigates and chooses files to download. Documents were most often presented as plain text without formatting, or were encoded in word processor formats.

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Library websiteLibrary website• Librarians first used websites for promoting

library activities as a part of their traditional library extension services.

• The main goal for development of library website is to establish an on-line presence of the library and make their information available to anyone at any time.

• Later on library used it for announcement of new services and marketing of its products.

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BlogBlog• It is a website; powerful two-way based tool

• Information display in reverse chronological order

• Entries listed in general/specific categories

• Links to other sites of interest and places for comments

• Monthly archive of previous entries

• Readers can place a comment on a blog post

• It can serve as discussion forum

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WikiWiki• Wiki is a website or set of webpages

• It allowed easy and collaborative content creation and sharing by everyone.

• Wiki pages have an edit button and any registered user can use online editing tool to add, modify or even delete the existing contents.

• Hypertext-style linking between pages is used to create a navigable set of pages.

• It used as a subject guide or gateway of vast information resources on the Internet

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Blog Blog versusversus Wiki Wiki

Blog

• Content is not editable, only commentable

• The creator drives the content

• Act as a mini website, news vehicle, events, discussions

Wiki

• Content is centrally located, organised and editable by anyone

• Equal sense of ownership and commitment to all participants

• Training tools, subject guides, resource catalogues, instructions

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Web 1.0Web 1.0

The World Wide Web or WWW or Web 1.0 is a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. The first implementation of the web represents the web 1.0, which, according to Berners-Lee, could be considered the “read-only web” contribution.

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Web 2.0 : Salient featuresWeb 2.0 : Salient features

Web 2.0

Search

Links

Authoring

Tags

Signals

Extensions

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Web 1.0 Web 1.0 versus versus Web 2.0Web 2.0

Web 1.0 Web 2.0

•Static Web Pages

•Based on protocols such as HTTP, HTML, ISP etc

•Connect information

•Dynamic Content• Focuses on several major themes, including AJAX, Mashups social networking, lightweight collaboration, social bookmarking, media sharing, etc•Connect people

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Library 1.0Library 1.0Library 1.0 is really whatever point we are at present. The reality is that the number of users who have needs is outnumbering than those whose needs we are meeting. In other words, we are offering services that are not wanted by a majority of our users. Library 1.0 is the current activity cycle of planning and implementing. We often prepare and plan for years, but when those plans are put into place and executed we have a tendency to walk away without performing constant follow-up. What we therefore need to remember is that Library 1.0 is a restrictive place, governed by strict hierarchies, rigid boundaries, and underpinned by change-avoidance.

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Library 2.0Library 2.0Library 2.0 is a term coined by Michael Casey on his blog, LibraryCrunch.

Jack M. Maness has identified following four essential elements for Library 2.0:

• User centered: Creation of the content and services they view within the library’s web-presence, OPAC, etc.

• Multimedia character: Contain video and audio components.

• Social rich: Both synchronous (e.g. IM or Instant Messaging) and asynchronous (e.g. wikis) ways for users to communicate with one another and with librarians

• Community service: It seeks to continually change its services, to find new ways to allow communities, not just individuals to seek, find, and utilize information.

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Library 1.0 Library 1.0 versusversus Library 2.0 Library 2.0

Library 1.0 Library 2.0

•Email reference/Q&A pages

•Text-based tutorials

•Email mailing lists, webmasters

•Controlled classification schemes

•OPAC

•Catalog of largely reliable print and electronic holdings

•Chat reference•Streaming media tutorials with interactive databases•Blogs, wikis, RSS feeds•Tagging coupled with controlled schemes •Personalized social network interface•Catalogue of reliable and suspect holdings, web-pages,blogs, wikis, etc.

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About WordPressAbout WordPress

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WordPress is an open source blog tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It's often customized into a content management system. It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. We customized it and developed the Library Blogs of Advanced Bell Institute (http://abclibrary.wordpress.com/).

Library Blogs of Advanced Bell InstituteLibrary Blogs of Advanced Bell Institute

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About wikispacesAbout wikispaces

Wikispaces is a hosting service based in San Francisco, California (USA). It launched in March 2005 and is owned by Tangient LLC. It is among the largest wiki hosts, competing with PBworks, Wetpaint, Wikia, and Google Sites (formerly JotSpot). Private wikis with advanced features for businesses, non-profits and educators are available for an annual fee. We customized it for developing Wiki page of Advanced Bell Institute (http://abclib.wikispaces.com/).

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Wiki page of Advanced Bell InstituteWiki page of Advanced Bell Institute

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Ranganathan’s Five LawsRanganathan’s Five Laws and and

Library 2.0Library 2.0The imperatives motivated by S.R. Ranganathan’s Five Laws in early- 1930’s and today’s Library 2.0 are the same – although methods for disseminating and accessing information have evolved over the years but our need for knowledge and inspiration remains constant.

Contd...

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Contd…Contd…Both environment support• User centric operation• Systematic arrangement of

information• Optimum use of information• Information consumption for all• Built proper communication system

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ConclusionConclusion• The new technologies of the Internet and the

Web have now opened up infinite possibilities and marvelous opportunities to effectively discharging library and information services.

• These newer technologies have very much capable of creating, collaborating and constantly updating (authoring), storing (uploading), preserving (archiving), retrieving and delivering (accessing and downloading) information open to all freely.

• Librarian should plan optimal use of these technologies to discharging effective library and information services to meet the inspiration of users in today’s world.

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Thanks for patient hearing

Any queries? Suggestions

Please ask/write:sharma_hp@hotmail.com or sg.libsys@gmail.com

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