Last month the Dutch Advisory Committee on Library Innovation published its report “Innovation with Effect“. The report was commissioned by the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science, the charge was to draw up a plan for library innovation for the period 2009-2012 including a number of required conditions. Priorities that had to be addressed [...]
Tag Archive > web2.0
Open Stack 2.0
Last week my colleague Bert Zeeman published a poll “Open stack, get rid of it!” (in Dutch) with 3 options:
1. Yes, of course, should have been done long ago
2. Help, no, open stacks are the backbone of the scientific library
3. Nonsense, like always the truth lies in the middle.
I voted for option 3, which is [...]
Antisocial Networking
In his post “Twitter me this” Owen Stephens writes about differences in use and audience of Social Networking Sites. (Apparently at Imperial College London they had a similar kind of Web2.0 Learning programme as we had at the Library of the University of Amsterdam.)
Owen distinguishes audiences on several, intermixed levels (my interpretation): “young” (e.g. MySpace [...]
Turning the Pages 2.0
British Library’s extraordinary technology for viewing great landmarks of world culture online.