Openbare bibliotheek ten tijde van Google

1. 28-10-2009
Things change
Public libraries
&
in times of Google
People change
European Congress on E-Inclusion 2009
Education Leisure
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Digital magazines Living books
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• www.flashpageflip.com
Music
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Public libraries change
December 28th 2007
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Inequality at the origin Public libraries evolved
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Andrew Carnegie
1835 - 1919
Current inequalities
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Low literacy (not able to function properly in society): 18%
30% no computer at home
40% no broadband
Sociological survey: 30% are non-participants – alienated
not participating in culture, not engaged in volunteer
organization, no or poor social network around them, no political
participation (protest voting)
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Plenitude
“We are used to deal with scarcity. That
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has been our human lot since the
beginning of history. Now we face
plenitude.”
Change - continued: Richard Lanham
internet and cultural shift
Cultural shift
Internet is a social medium
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• “The Internet models the larger cultural • Finding new friends
conversation, and when something is put up • Form a gang
there, people naturally consider it not as a
• Brag, impress
product but as part of a conversation,
whether it be the exchange of embroidery • Exchange stories
patterns or pop songs.” • Share media
• Play
Richard Lanham • Fight
• Bullying
• …
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Cultural shift Challenge
Internet is: Almost all core functions of public libraries are effected
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• Where you find information by Internet
• Accessible, independent of time and place
• Where you decide what to read, when to game, Reformulate the mission of public libraries
which film you want to watch • In radically changed environment
• Where you take part in ongoing cultural • And identify today’s social issues, the libraries have
conversations. to provide solutions for
Is an issue for all stakeholders
• Not a debate within the library sector alone
….it very much resembles a public library • Not a national debate alone
Mission Instrument for policy
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public library is
“Books, the physical books themselves, were [always]
incidental to the real library mission, which was the
• Correction of the market
dispersion of knowledge.
– Access to a divers and living culture
… Their final loyalty is to knowledge, to the free
> rich cultural conversations
marketing of ideas, to the cultural conversation.”
– Access to information and knowledge
> neutral, objective, professional
Richard Lanham
• Co-responsibility for an inclusive society
– Supporting local community life
– A ‘place’ within the local community
– Bridging the digital divide
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Value for the public
• Divers and rich collection: quality titel
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– Inspiration, entertaining, reflection
– Learning, socially more empowered
• A shared symbolic environment: identification
– Stories, information, knowledge
– Creating opportunities for people and communities to
connect to each other
• Being local
– Knowledge of local community, for the local community
– Being a public place (here the public is taking the lead)
• A partner for an inclusive society
– Access and skills
Cabrio
INTEGRATIE
This man was
looking for The
Red Hot Chili
Peppers and
found much
more…
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Local
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Libraries have issues
bring the
bring the
inside out outside in
Hybrid environment (plenitude & immediacy) (syndicate)
(import, organise)
User generated content For ever in
development benefit understanding
Life styles & niches expert
generated
content
What about my books?
user
generated
Copyright marketing
content
privacy generation C
Non-participants
identity
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Staff Inclusion as a challenge
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• Accessible technology: broadband,
infrastructure + content & services
• And beyond: competencies, skills
• Partnerships with education, information
literacy
Aim at mobilizing people
• Be part of, and enrich the cultural
conversations going on (digitally)
• Relate to people who lack stimuli in their social
networks, the non-participants…
Strengths > inclusion
• Aware of the need to change Beslissing IWT midden
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– Successfully integrated earlier technological september 2009
developments
– On a local level: in the front line
• Professional attitude
“For all people, and for people who need some
help in particular”
• Good infrastructure, on good locations
• Rich collections: so many items, so many
opportunities to connect to people
A place for learning, bonding,
discovery, leisure…
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9. 28-10-2009
Richard Lanham
The Economics of Attention
(2006)
Ray Oldenburg
The Great Good Place (1989)
Frank Huysmans
The future of the Dutch public library (2008)
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