Brugernes syn på biblioteket og web 2.0

Jeg er netop faldet over en 280 sider lang rapport fra amerikanske OCLC, som har interviewet biblioteksbrugere fra Canada, Frankrig, Tyskland, Japan, Storbritannien og selvfølgelig USA samt nogle amerikanske bibliotekschefer om deres syn på og anvendelse af sociale webservices.

Jeg har indtil videre kun skimmet "Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World" på skærmen, men jeg synes, den virker så interessant, at jeg ikke kan vente med at gøre opmærksom på den, til jeg rent faktisk har læst den.

Et lille uddrag fra konklusionen kan sikkert skærpe appetitten:

"Internet use has not simply increased, it has infiltrated our lives, offering more and more services at more and more service points. Use has grown for almost every Internet service we measured in this survey—well, almost every service.

The percentage of Internet users that have used a library Web site has decreased. Library Web site use declined from 30% of respondents in Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. in 2005 to 20% of the general public in these same countries in 2007, a 33%decrease.

(...) The more intriguing question is—what are the services and incentives that online libraries could offer users to entice them to come back or to visit more often or even devote some of their own time to help create a social library site?

The survey results offer some clues."

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