Library 2.0

The concept of Library 2.0 (English Library 2.0 ) is not yet clearly defined and includes partly controversial concepts and ideas about the future design of libraries. Consensus largely that the library is 2.0 fundamentally aimed at the user and his ideas, wishes, expectations.

Generally

There is agreement also predominantly to the effect that the library 2.0 relies on specific, the so -called Web 2.0 ascribed to fundamental principles such as participation, collaboration, interaction and easy two-way communication. These were the wide spread feedback efficient and geared to networking communication technologies, especially by the so-called social software into a standard communication phenomenon on the Internet.

One obvious reason component of the Library 2.0 is how to link the library user in the design and development especially of digital services. The principle platform includes interactive user interface and open communication and networking options.

Supporters of the concept believe that the traditional services offered by libraries are complemented by new forms with the Library 2.0.

In the library 2.0 library services are frequently evaluated and updated to meet the changing needs of library users. Library 2.0 also means user participation and feedback in the development and to incorporate the maintenance of library services. The active and empowered users is an important component of Library 2.0. If information flow in both directions - from the library to the user and by the user to the library - can develop and improve at a constant and rapid basis, library services. The user is participant, co- creator, builder and consultant - whether the product is virtual or physical.

History

The English term " Library 2.0 " was coined in 2005 by Michael Casey in his blog Library Crunch as a direct offshoot of the term Web 2.0. Casey claimed that libraries, especially public libraries, are at a point where many elements of Web 2.0 by value for the library system. This applies to both the technically based, and for the non-technical services. In particular, he described the need to introduce to libraries a strategy for constant change which promotes a participatory role of Bibliotheksbenutzerns.

At a scientific conference, the term Library 2.0 was first mentioned on the " Internet Librarian Conference " in October 2005, as did the idea in conjunction with typical library Sites Michael Stephens of the Public Library of the Saint Joseph County.

The debate about Library 2.0

The Anglo-American Debate

The debate about the Library 2.0 has its origin in the Biblioblogosphäre. Some librarian bloggers argue that the costs associated with the concept of basic ideas are not new, but it already are part of the service philosophy of the library reformer of the 19th century. Others require specific examples of how they can come by the library to the library 2.0. The date probably most detailed and critical analysis comes from Walt Crawford, who, it turns out the weaknesses of the concept with the " Sixtytwo Views and Seven definition " of what is described by the slogan Library 2.0.

Advocate of Library 2.0 as Stephen Abram, Michael Stephens, Paul Miller argue that certain aspects of Library 2.0 in themselves are not new, but the convergence of an expanded understanding of service and user orientation with technical and conceptual elements from Web 2.0 to new forms of library services leads that are so comprehensive that it will represent a new quality of library activity in the result. Accordingly, they call this phenomenon in analogy to Web 2.0 and based on the numbering of software generations Library 2.0.

The debate in the German-speaking world

A critical level of individual engagement that extends to the development of the Anglo-American librarianship or in the local library science concerning recourse, has barely recognizable in the German-speaking countries. The phenomenon is, however, - although not always under the name library 2.0 - increasingly rezipiert.

The debate internationally

The concept of Library 2.0 undergoes inter alia, also in the Scandinavian library system a lively reception. To find, for example, in Stockholm Biblioteksdagarna 2007 under the motto " Library 2.0 " instead.