My blog experience

library 2.0

Being in the information world for 18 years now and the big question remain unanswered why we took long to migrate from traditional library to library 2.0

Today s lesson brought about issues of importance in dealing with Library 2.0 the following topics were discussed in full length. The presenter Dr Zinn showed that the library 2.0 has brought some changes in the way the libraries used to provide services. The following topics were covered on today s session.

•     User participation/collaboration
•          Reaching new users
•          Constant & purposeful change
•          Embracing new technology
•          Not just a technology shift, but also a cultural shift.
•          Library services taken to the user

This embedded video gives us a two worlds,the first being the traditional library in the 1900 to around 1950 how libraries were so confined to the four walls where everything was paper based.users of the libray had to go to the physical building to get service.from the late 70s 70s and 90s the intoduction of both computers and internet based methods were introduced and to day we have established the learning resourced centers which connects people around the world and improves the sharing of information. 



On today s blog few experiences are going to be shared, this will range from the  first-hand experience of creating a Blog, the lecturer introduce the group on  how to create links on the blog, to attach videos, to add images and to create RSS feeds so that the things that are of interest towards each can be send individually based on the interest. Personally was fascinated by the LIASA and IFLA  RSS feeds of which the links were immediately created. This links have now became my knowledge capital as their are becoming the knowledge hub that works as a community of practice. 


QR Codes

We also looked into the QR codes and how they can benefit the libraries, it should be noted that QR codes have been around for some time now but are only fairly new in libraries and mostly in academic libraries. The South African library landscape has not yet taken a full advantage of utilising this QR Codes phenomenon.

The video  below will show some insight in the benefit of using the QR Codes in libraries