Information Literacy beyond Library 2 0

Peter Godwin

2.0

Peter Godwin

University of Bedfordshire

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“Library 2 0 was nothing new really and the concept got Library 2.0 was nothing new really and the concept got confused with lists of trendy Web 2.0 tools.”

“The Web generation was an over hyped idea ”The Web generation was an over-hyped idea.

“Information literacy is always about academic librarians chasing after problems and creating a niche for themselves ”chasing after problems and creating a niche for themselves.

“Nobody knows the answers about social media : we don’t even know the questions yet ”know the questions yet...

Information Literacy beyond Library 2.0What’s the story?What s the story?

What’s changed now?

Wh h d d?Where are we headed?

What’s the story?

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So what was Library 2.0??

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They text and share music

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But they are reluctant to share

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Have academics engaged Have academics engaged with 2.0?

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Or researchers?Or researchers?

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Did it help?Or complicate?What did it mean?

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Wikipedia

LibraryThing

Screencasts

Podcasts

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Referencing (Zotero)

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Facebook

What’s changed

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I ’ b Bl kb h b kb h bIt’s about Blackberry thumb or crackberry thumbs......

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Mobile and social

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Where are we Where are we headed?

Is IL tooIs IL too academic?

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What’s happened to Information

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What are the important What are the important new tunes?

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“Students struggled with processing results and finding the Students struggled with processing results and finding the good, relevant stuff they need ... they may lack the skills for selecting the most relevant results they need for solving se ect g t e ost e eva t esu ts t ey ee o so v g information problems in their daily lives.”

How college students use the Web to conduct everyday life researchHow college students use the Web to conduct everyday life researchby Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg.First Monday, Volume 16, Number 4 - 4 April 2011http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/3484/2857

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“The eb pro ides little“The web provides little encouragement or opportunity for quieter, more attentive ways of thinking, such as contemplation, reflection, introspection. Those ways of thinking used to be considered the essence of the human intellect. Now they’re seen as dispensable.”

Nicholas Carr: The Age of Perpetual Distraction

Project Information Literacy, "Smart Talks," no. 6,

April 4, 2011

We will still be guides!be guides!

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Information Literacy beyond Library 2.0

It’s socialIt s social

It’s increasingly mobile

T h l i hift b t Technologies shift but people adapt uneqally

Th Ti f Lib i The Time for Libraries can be NOW!

Mobiles the ultimate portable computerMobiles –the ultimate portable computer