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Global Library 2.0 Week...

Let's self-organize Global Library 2.0 Week...July 22nd to July 28th, 2007

the goal: to have all Libraries around the world stop and spend time with web 2.0, web 3D, and new media applications and participate in whatever way they choose in the global networked world.

Whether it is simply teaching your staff how to blog, making your first wiki, running & broadcasting a community event, getting a 2nd life, joining or organizing a participatory network...or organizing an unconference, creating better library applications for mobile phones, come up with ways to intergrate citizen's media into your library...Participate!

Start here: http://globallibraries.ning.com/

So...why global library 2.0 week...?

First of all, it's a global world.

We are in a hyper-evolving, technically disruptive, open-ended global information environment -the ways in which knowledge and culture are being created, organized, preserved, distributed, and delivered around and within the world, are fundamentally different from the ways of the past - the ways around which many of our institutions were created...

As Librarians, we lead people, we manage resources, and we are stewards of the world's knowledge. We have a strong ethical and activist history. We are the people who protect citizens freedom of access to information and speech. And we have many responsibilities, and even more ethical obligations in this regard. Our future, and the future of libraries, lies in our ability to build and lead new models, new institutions, and new knowledge networks. And we need to build them...all over the world, we have started...Join Us.

Take one week, even just part of a week, and open yourself to the possibilites of the future...No matter what the size of your library, or its focus, you are now global...

Participate in the larger, global library and information community...

Whether you are a newbie, an uber tech geek, or somewhere in between...whether you are a librarian, an educator, a blogger, part of the citizen's media movement, a wikipedian, a lawyer, an I.T. guy, a student...and/or anything else...any age, anywhere in the world...

Take part. Participate. Create. Connect. Self-Organize. Share. Learn.

And if you are fully immersed in new media already...bring someone else on board...and spread the word...

Tag your media: globallibweek07.

Tags: globallibweek07, librarians, library2.0, networks

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Permalink Reply by joshua m. neff on April 14, 2007 at 7:46pm: Gosh, Bonnie, you sure are ambitious! I admire that. I think it's a terrific idea. I'll think of things I could do to participate in this.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Bonnie on April 14, 2007 at 10:04pm: Fantastic! ambitious- maybe, maybe not...inspired- definitely...i participated in the first podcamp in boston this past fall - it came together on a wiki and then spread around the world...powerful stuff...i believe our profession can globally self-organize itself in 3 months and will accomplish many, many, yet un-thought-of things...

People out there made an earth sandwich...we can do this...Spread the Word! Get your fellow librarians onboard...I'm glad you're going to contribute- that's awesome.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mindy Kittay on April 15, 2007 at 11:22am: I love the idea and would do my best to get some programming to support this in my new library.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Keith Schroeder on April 16, 2007 at 8:59am: An interesting concept that I fully support. It's too bad that it happens in the summer as it kind of leaves school Library Media Specialists out of the picture. . .; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jennifer Parsons on April 16, 2007 at 9:37am: Keith, even better, actually...because now school Library Media Specialists have free time to volunteer at public libraries and make a tie-in to public and academic ones.

I was wondering if we could really geek this out and have a virtual component to it-- either on Second Life, or perhaps something as simple as a blog or wiki, with open-source articles and/or programming on it.

Hmm. Let's see what I can do.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Bonnie on May 19, 2007 at 4:09pm: That would be awesome- a persistent virtual event during that week would be cool- maybe a virtual unconference of sorts...and wikis are great and simple for all to use...anything I can help you with?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by steve stone on April 16, 2007 at 3:31pm: Wow. I'll be travelling from Lexington KY to Budapest, Hungary that week (and on to Nyomat, Romania). I'll try to get to a Budapest library when I get there.

Good idea,
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Permalink Reply by Bill Anderson on April 16, 2007 at 5:17pm: Hi Bonnie:

Hello from Connecticut. You may already heard of this, but I've found Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Library's Learning 2.0 site to be a great resource for semi-newbie like myself. I've started my way through the 23 Learning 2.0 things to do. I sure this would also be a great outline for those setting up programming.

Main page for the program is at

http://plcmclearning.blogspot.com/

and the 23 things are at
http://plcmcl2-things.blogspot.com/; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by blgThree on April 16, 2007 at 8:33pm: I love the idea!

I facilitated an online discussion in the WebJunction forums on public access computing in international libraries. This was back in May of 2005, when Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 were just starting to heat up. The bulk of the conversation was contributed by our guest moderators. I had visions of numerous library staff from around the world joining the discussion, but it didn't quite happen that way.

Now that so many more libraries and individuals are connected online, it would be great to exchange ideas and challenges from across the globe.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Carolyn Foote on April 16, 2007 at 10:00pm: Bill, You beat me to it--I was just thinking the Learning 2.0 page would be a great place to start.

I do think this is a great idea, but agree with Keith that it leaves school librarians by the wayside somewhat. Since we are working with students to teach these tools, it'd be great to have it at a time that school librarians might be working! Just an idea.... Of course we can participate in the summer, but many are unavailable then!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Bonnie on May 19, 2007 at 4:03pm: I hope this will be the first of many such global participatory events as people and librarians all over the world continue to connect in new networks and collaborate in many, many new ways, venues, using differing mashups...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Bonnie on May 19, 2007 at 3:59pm: It would be great...i hope libraries will continue to build stronger global networks with each other and with all those who create, organize, and deliver knowledge, info, and culture around the world...we face many common challenges and hopefully common and rapidly evolving and morphing solutions...look forward to hearing more about what you are up to...; ▶ Reply to This