Droom wordt werkelijkheid: Digitale Bibliotheek officieel van start

Met ingang van maart 2009 gaat uitgeverij Essentials van start met Digitale Bibliotheek, een nieuw vakblad gericht op bibliotheekprofessionals in Nederland en Vlaanderen.

Digitale Bibliotheek is bestemd voor professionals werkzaam in openbare bibliotheken, bedrijfs- en instellingsbibliotheken, medische, juridische en museumbibliotheken en bibliotheken in voortgezet en hoger onderwijs. Het blad behandelt onderwerpen als de inzet van web 2.0 en gaming binnen de bibliotheek; de inzet van open access; auteursrecht; digitale leer- en werkplatformen; opbouw en beheer van digitale collecties en relevante technieken en methoden op deze gebieden.  In Digitale Bibliotheek zullen ook artikelen geplaatst worden afkomstig uit de internationale vakpers. Het eerste nummer zal verschijnen medio maart 2009. Voor dat jaar staan 7 nummers gepland in combinatie met een internationaal georiënteerd bibliotheekportal.

De hoofdredactie van het vakblad is in handen van Karolien Selhorst, werkzaam als beleidsmedewerker Digitale Bibliotheek binnen de OB Vlissingen. Daarnaast verzorgt zij in samenwerking met Essentials workshops en masterclasses en publiceert zij veelvuldig in verschillende vakbladen op het gebied van kennismanagement en bibliotheken. Selhorst trad eerder toe tot de redactie van kenniseconomisch vakblad Intellectueel Kapitaal, maar wisselt deze plaats in voor de hoofdredactie van Digitale Bibliotheek.

Digitale Bibliotheek wordt naast Intellectueel Kapitaal (IK) geplaatst. IK zal zich nadrukkelijker richten op bedrijfsorganisatorische aspecten van kennismanagement. Digitale Bibliotheek (BD) wordt daarmee het eerste Nederlandse vakblad dat exclusief gaat over de digitale bibliotheek. Met deze fondsuitbreiding en het uitgeven van boeken en het organiseren van congressen focust Essentials zich nog sterker op content over de kennissamenleving en -economie.

Noot voor de redactie:
Essentials (Rotterdam) is uitgever van Intellectueel Kapitaal, Digitale Bibliotheek, Logopedie en Foniatrie. Daarnaast organiseert Essentials congressen, masterclasses en workshops op het gebied van bibliotheken, web 2.0 en kennismanagement; onderwerpen waarover Essentials ook boeken uitgeeft.
Voor meer informatie over Digitale Bibliotheek kunt u terecht bij Karolien Selhorst: karolienselhorst@essentials-media.nl

Online Information focuses on social networks

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Online Information focuses on social networks

Last week I had a wonderful time at this year’s edition of Online Information.
The 3-day conference was openend this year by Clay Shirky, the author of the book ‘Here comes everybody: the power of organizing without organizations’.

Shirky focused his talk on how the internet – web2.0 – makes group action a lot more easier. He sees different patterns: sharing, collaboration and collective action. A good example of ‘collaboration’ if the lemma ‘doctor who’ on Wikipedia, which has been edited thousands of times by thousands of users.
The funny thing about large scale collaboration is that there is no common average behaviour; there is only this little group of engaged users/editors who are really dedicated to the cause. Shirky refers to this as co-creation without coordination.

Shirky was also asked how he sees of the role of librarians in this world. In his view, libraries are happiness engines. it is easy to see librarians as hosts of books; if you, however, see librarians as happiness engines, the next question to ask yourself is: what would increase the happiness of the users? The answer is: helping the user to find the next thing to read, watch, etc.. For a more detailed report about Shirky’s talk, I refer to Jenny Levine's blog.

After the keynote, it was time for Jenny Levine to open the track 'New media channels and approaches for libraries'. According to Jenny, we are entering a new age of librianship, which she calls 'library 8.0' (participatory). This means the end of physical formats; everything is moving to the cloud.

In the past there were one way-libraries, in the new age we talk about the two-way library. Information is going constantly out, not only when librarians are sitting at their desks. To illustrate her talk she showed numerous examples of libraries using new media channels to communicate with their customers.

After Jenny’s inspiring talk, it was my turn to take the audience on a wiki journey. My presentation – implementing a wiki as a tool for knowledge sharing in a public library - can be viewed at Slideshare. A summary is available here. By the way, thank you Jenny :)

It goes without saying that a conference like Online Information spent a huge amount of time to what happens in the web2.0-field.  A very good talk was given by Christophe Langlois, author of one the most famous financial blogs Visible Banking. Langlois focused on the subject ‘banking2.0’ or how banks use web2.0 tools to communicate with both existing and new clients. He also showed a few examples of how banking clients gain power over banks by using social networks or web2.0 tools.

Another inspiring contribution came from Lee Bryant (Headshift). He talked about the power of using social networks internally. In 1st generation knowledge management, we focused on capturing and storing knowledge, now we should start adding a flavor of findability. Bryant also observes a new role for the information professional in the Enterprise2.0-world: from gatekeeper and expert of storing content to a facilitator of networks.  We should no longer focus on managing content, but on facilitating knowledge flows.

A project I have been following in the recent years is Ask Olivia. This is a online answering service for children, which is set up and managed by 51 Danish public libraries. Ask Olivia has two goals: to create an internet service for children and to develop new librarian competences.  Librarian Berkit Laerkes talked at Online about the effects and results of the project. In particulare the answering forum – children answer each other’s questions and are rewarded for this – has been a great success!  This is due to the fact that children want to be acknowledged as experts in a particular field. Berit also sees a new role for libraries: they should create possiblies for children to meet in the virtual world as well as in the physical world.

Conclusion: Online Information was not only very inspiring, but it was also the place where I got to know many wonderful people like Dick Kaser (Information Today) and Harriët de Man from the TuDelft.

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