Library 2.0 Toolkit

Canadian Library Association Conference, Montréal, May 2009 Dean Frey, Director, Red Deer Public Library

The Library 2.0
Process Tool-Kit
Web 2.0 technologies

a new level of interactivity
in the Virtual World

Community Development processes

new (& old) ways to engage people in the Face-to-Face World

New Technologies

+ Process Toolkits

= Improved Library Service

Red Deer
a Proxy City

1. Red Deer, AB 
2. Waterloo, ON
3. Guelph, ON
4. Kingston, ON
5. Kelowna, BC 
6. Maple Ridge, BC
7. Grande Prairie, AB
8. London, ON
9. Calgary, AB
10. Langley, BC

Technology Toolkit

Open source tools: Drupal for web development

The webmaster’s toolkit: RSS, PHP, XHTML

Technology Toolkit

Audio-visual tools:
HD video / audio studio 
tools for a/v production & podcasting 

Wired staff 

Technical training

Intro
Community
Development
“Community development is about building active and sustainable communities based on social justice and mutual respect.” 

Based on values:
Social Justice
Participation
Equality
Learning
Cooperation

Information
Consultation
Deciding together
Acting together
Supporting independent community interests
David Wilcox's Ladder of Participation
Traditional models
Traditional Teaching Model
Teacher (Narrating Subject)
Students (Patient, Listening Objects)

Banking model of education (libraries)
Students (patrons, customers) receive, file, and store deposits

The Traditional Library Mode
Knowlegable Subject behind a desk
Imparts knowledge to a patient "patron" Object

The Traditional Literacy/Illiteracy Mode
Fixing a broken/passive object

Paulo
Freire
“Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.”

The 
restless, 
impatient, 
continuing, 
hopeful 
Library

For more information
Dean Frey – dfrey@rdpl.org
Visit www.rdpl.org
Read Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Penguin, 1972)

Face-to-Face
Community Development
Action Research
Appreciative Inquiry
Community Engagement
Responsive Design

Web Tools
Internet Protocol
Open Source Tools
Web Toolkit
2.0 Tools

Web Processes
Continuous Beta
Pretty Good Practices
Open Source Culture
Rapid Prototype Development
Crowdsourcing
Continuous Design

Traditional marketing models
Ad models
Content models
Media models (broadcast)

Web 1.0
Content is poured into standardized containers
Process Toolkit
Action Research
Appreciative
Inquiry
Community Engagement
Responsive Design
Community Development
http://www.electionforum.ca
http://www.artsparks.org
http://staff.rdpl.org
http://board.rdpl.org
http://www.digitalreddeer.ca
http://www.rdpl.org
Web 2.0
Social Software
Search
Google
Maps
Docs
Earth
API
Labs
Twitter
Blogs
Vlogs
YouTube
Embedded media
Mash-ups
Org-o-tron
Franny-Lip
Zorogifruct
etc......
Collaboration on the Web
RDPL
Web
Interaction/Synergy
artsparks
resources
Working Together project
www.librariesincommunities.ca/
Libraries developing with our community
"The Library will achieve success in ways that traditional social development agencies are unable to because the Library is seen as positive and available to the whole community.  The Library's mandate is not conceptually charged with a focus on problems or risk factors.  Its reach and ability to be wholly inclusive is enhanced by this factor."
wikipedia

yes, i said
wikipedia