Jan 20
About
The main goal of this project is to deepen the understanding of the interactive information source called Web 2.0 focusing on knowledge, experience, collaboration, and creation of new contents. The role of the information professionals and the libraries (Library 2.0) in this new dimension of the information chain is crucial. We need to put libraries in a stronger position allowing them to respond more quickly and flexibly to user needs, and to new challenges and development. Through this project we aim to develop the skills needed to manage the new information platform and foresee the development of needed competencies in the information society. The new techniques demand computer, social, and network competencies and may result in new kind of digital divide as well as creating new forms of information overload. We need to shift our understanding of the information society. It is not only a question of shaping order in information chaos but understanding how individuals shape their own personalized information spheres.
1. How are Library 2.0 techniques affecting local, national, and global patterns of society?
2. Why are people engaging in structuring and shaping the contents on the Web? Which are the motivators and barriers to using Library 2.0 techniques? What are the implications for the quality of information and contents?
3. What are the new skills demanded for managing social technology? What are the possibilities and challenges for the libraries developing Library 2.0 technologies? How does it affect information behavior, use, and work?
4. What kind of tools should be developed to evaluate the new, participating Web and information network?