Library 2.0

Inspiring glimpses into the future of the Library.

Library 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...steps along the way to the complete learning/information/knowledge experience. (Bold formatting doesn't seem to work)

I like the description of the actual library space as "emotional/irrational/theatrical/participatory" (TBC) - look at how users access, consume and create content

Moving from VR - vitual reality, to AR - augmented reality - the services of Library projected onto/into immediate surrounds - which means what exactly - a sci-fi dream with voice-controlled holograms floating in space?

'The Long Tail' - Amazon employee description: "We sold more books today that didn't sell at all yesterday than we sold today of all the books that did sell yesterday."

ie unusual and one-off items may exceed in demand the well-worn and 'popular' - message for libraries is to cater to the unusual, extreme, hard-to-get, just as much as the common/popular.

Library's 'incarnations' - storage, data retrieval, commentary and annotation.

New perspectives: the collection will be infinite - all there online
refinement of search engines, simplification of software, and user-ed, to lead users directly to the information they want
Library services to be web-based

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del.icio.us

I've started to explore this site and have my own account: http://del.icio.us/frostypines

The big selling point is that you can carry your tagged sites around with you but I don't see how this is done unless you instal the delicious buttons on every computer you use. So how is it anything more than a Favourites that is stored on a website rather than your browser?

I have yet to explore other features like other users' Tags.

Tanya explains: You can view your delicious marked sites without having the buttons installed on your computer, you just go to the web address for your delicious site. Here is an example http://del.icio.us/bremertafe
I hope this helps.

Thanks again T!