Changing Information Environment Seminar 28 January 2009 Facilitators: Judy Reading and Jane Rawson 2.00 Introduction 2.00 – 3.00 Discussion in small groups 3.00 – 3.15 Tea-break 3.15 – 4.30 Short group presentations (5-10 mins each) Vere Harmsworth Library experience of Web 2.0 Summary and discussion

Context Dramatic speed of development and proliferation of tools and online resources available to librarians, researchers and students Changing attitudes to information and access Changing role of librarian http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1415830,00.html Challenge and opportunities

Web 2.0 Web 2.0 = “an attitude not a technology?” (UKOLN presentation at OULS staff conference) COLLABORATION “The long tail” – many sites with low popularity = more popular than few sites with high popularity – PERSONALISATION Democratization of information? Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us http://youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE SocialOULS wiki

Topics: WIKIs Blogs Social networking sites like Facebook and others Social tagging like delicious.com and others Podcasts Virtual reality sites like Secondlife

For each topic: What is it? What is it for? How might it be used by both users and library staff? What are its pros and cons?

Contact details Email for any follow-up ideas to: judy.reading@ouls.ox.ac.uk jane.rawson@ouls.ox.ac.uk http://socialouls.wetpaint.com/