Library 2.0:Creating a Borderless Library

Michael SauersTechnology Innovation LibrarianNebraska Library Commission

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Are we locked-in to the old ways?

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Perpetual Beta

• Rapid development• Rapid implementation• Constantly test the waters• Don’t be afraid to fail

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Online applications

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Grab the Long Tail

Marketing

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Give yourself

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Give your customers the

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Be Social

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Go where the users are

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“Ivanhoe library does not have a conventional reference desk. Instead they use a portable tablet which can be carried around the library by roving reference staff.”http://www.flickr.com/photos/yarraplenty/521189422/(used with permission)

Is it easy foryour users tocontact you?

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• A 2005 report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project called “Teens and Technology” found that teenagers preferred new technology, like instant messaging or text messaging, for talking to friends and use e-mail to communicate with “old people.”

• E-mail is “too confusing”http://www.flickr.com/photos/couleursgm/244737979/

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Break

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Down

Barriers

Cherry Hill Public Library, Cherry Hill, NJhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/194802572/

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Can your users find what they’re looking for?

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Searching for new content types?

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Is your librarya Nanny State?

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“It’s the simplest lesson of the Internet: it’s the people stupid.

We don’t have computers because we want to interact with machines; we have them because

they allow us to communicate more

effectively with other people.”

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Michael SauersTechnology Innovation

Librarian,Nebraska Library Commission

msauers@nlc.state.ne.uswww.travelinlibrarian.infodel.icio.us/travelinlibrarian