Building Academic Library 2.0

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Academic Library 2.0 Keynote Speaker: Meredith Farkas, Distance Learning Librarian Norwich University, Northfield

A Conference sponsored by the Librarians Association of the University of California, Berkeley Division
Once a symbolic bastion of traditional accumulations of specialized knowledge, today's academic library operates in an information landscape grown increasingly variegated and difficult to traverse.

Paradoxically, at the same time, data, information, knowledge, cultural production, and scholarship are far more accessible, appropriable, and manipulable than ever before. New media attract widespread attention, more pliable technologies emerge with increasing frequency, and--most importantly--young generations of students and faculty with aptitudes, skills, and expectations borne of a world massively defined by the Internet and its progeny are populating the halls of academe.

The convergence of the once distinct technological and social meanings of the term "network" is evident in the rise of communities of remote collaborations among friends, acquaintances, students, and researchers. These developments compel academic libraries to consider how best to apply new technologies to suit users' demands and to satisfy their institutional and educational missions.

The Academic Library 2.0 conference will address the phenomenon of academic libraries taking affirmative steps to deploy technologies and services that facilitate users' virtually instant connection to diverse sources of knowledge and information, as well as to help users directly contribute form and substance to those sources.

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Uploaded: November 19, 2007 at 2:54 pm
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Video Comments:
Gypsybrarian (December 19, 2008 at 4:00 pm)
Thanks for posting. Meredith Farkas is such an admirable library professional. I love 2.0 discussions, especially when it's regarding academic library settings.
georgiapeachda1 (October 26, 2008 at 5:48 pm)
My ladyfriend is such a whorish lady all she does is put her darn photos on the online!
myoungatclarkson (February 29, 2008 at 9:41 am)
This was an excellent presentation and I am very pleased that I was able to view it from my office. I am a library director looking into improvements for our library. Nice job.
goernie1047 (February 3, 2008 at 8:04 am)
Thank you very much for posting this video. I am a library director and exploring Library 2.0 resources as alternatives for improving our contact with the academic community. Completely agree with Ms. Farkas, there was never a Library 1.0 because it has been an ongoing process of development. I have been in this field since 1974 and have lived it.
Congratulations. We will be exploring examples suggested.

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lkamsin (January 16, 2008 at 3:40 pm)
Brilliant! Thanks for posting this & making it accessible to those who couldn't be there.