A. Journal Articles
I. Articles in an Online Journal
1. Abram, Stephen. 2008. Social Libraries: The Librarian 2.0 Phenomenon. Library Resources & Technical Services Vol: 52 No.2 pg. 19-22. Retrieved last September 15 2008 at http://wilsonweb.com/
The author brings about the importance of web 2.0 in the libraries of the 21st century. The author reiterate on the fact that web 2.0 has brought about greater changes to the way information is handled. From simple clicking to drag and drop. Any one who has used smart ftp will know what I am talking about in regard to web development. He goes on to explain how best the web has become much easier to use, whereby people click, send email, drag and drop and all get a response. This article is as such vital because it discusses on the importance of web 2.0 in the libraries of the 21st century.
2. Aimee Fifarek (2007). The Birth of Catalog 2.0: Innovative Interfaces’ Encore Discovery Platform Vol 24 No: 5 Pp: 13-15. ©Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Retrieved last September 15 2008 at http://www.emeraldinsight.com
The writer discusses Web 2.0 technologies and development styles for the library catalog, specifically with regard to Innovative Interfaces’ Encore product. Just like any organization, libraries compete with businesses that seek to meet both the intellectual and social needs of today's “information consumer” (De Rosa et al., 2003). Web 2.0 has those features needed to achieve this objective and that is why it is being integrated.
The usefulness of this article is seen in that it explains web 2.0 technologies and how they can be integrated into libraries.
3. Andrew Harris and Susan Lessick. 2007. Libraries Get Personal: Facebook Applications, Google Gadgets, and MySpace Profiles. Vol 24 pp 30-32. ©Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Retrieved last September 15 2008 at http://www.emeraldinsight.com
Andrew and Susan go in depth to explain how applications, gadgets, and profiles that library has developed and distributed through the Facebook, iGoogle, and MySpace communities.Facebook applications for example are developed using the Facebook Platform.
This article has brought about the importance of some of the web 2.0 tools like MySpace and Facebook and how they can be used to disseminate information by schools or libraries and as such enhancing information literacy.
4. Benjamin R. Harris, Michelle S. Millet, (2006). Nothing to lose: “fluency” in information literacy theory and practice Vol 34 No 4 Pp: 520-535 ©Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Retrieved last September 15 2008 at http://www.emeraldinsight.com
The writers explain what information fluency is all about as well as the relationships between information literacy, literacy theory, and fluency theory. They suggest alternative conceptualizations for information seeking behavior. The advantages of information fluency are discussed; the first being the desire to create a “higher than the standards” philosophy of teaching.
Even though there are a few pitfalls, the authors are calling on careful note to be taken when these technologies are being integrated to make sure that they actually serve the right purpose for which they have been built.
5. David D. Oberhelman. (2007). Coming to terms with Web 2.0. Vol: 21. Pp: 5-6. ©Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Retrieved last September 15 2008 at http://www.emeraldinsight.com
One great importance of web 2.0 tools is the fact that it encourages dual communication. It does not serve as a forum for authorities to impart information to a passive, receptive audience but, it calls on them to be able to comment, collaborate, and edit information. He points to the fact that whereas Web 1.0 made use of Britannica Online and many other reference works. , Web 2.0 reference works are the shared products of many users' efforts. Sites such as PLoS One; that is; an interactive open-access journal for the communication of all peer-reviewed scientific and medical research which encourages feed backs and dialoguing among colleagues during any project development or revision processes.
The writer as such has brought about an in depth knowledge of web 2.0 and he goes further to bring about its difference with web 1.0
6. Henk Eijkman. (2008). Web 2.0 as a non-foundational network-centric learning space Vol: 25 pp: 93-104. ©Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Retrieved last September 16 2008 at http://www.emeraldinsight.com
The author brings forward the idea that web 2.0 is very important in education today. That is the advantages of web 2.0 in trying to get knowledge his paper aims at elaborating the importance of web 2.0 in higher education. He gives examples of blogs, wikis, pod and vodcasting (e.g. YouTube, FaceBook, etc.) Social networking has become part of our daily life and web 2.0 is there to guide us.
7. Jennifer Sharkey, West Lafayette. (2006). Towards information fluency: applying a different model to an information literacy credit course Vol: 34 No: 1 pp: 71-85 ©Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Retrieved last September 16 2008 at http://www.emeraldinsight.com
The writers present on how the information fluency model supports the integration of information literacy, critical thinking, and technology into curriculum. It shows how an appropriate integration of technology needs to be supported by information literacy and critical thinking. The utilization of the information fluency model will enhance the student’s knowledge and aid them in their research and to become better learners. Thus it can be seen that critical thinking is very vital to anyone who wants to be information fluent.
8. Kevin Curran, Michelle Murray, Martin Christian (2007). Taking the information to the public through Library 2.0 Vol 25 No: 2 pp: 288-297 ©Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Retrieved last September 16 2008 at http://www.emeraldinsight.com
The writers gives us an in-depth knowledge of what web 2.0 is by distinguishing it from 1.0 and bringing about its importance to the promotion of information fluency. Unlike library 1.0 which offers a one-directional service that takes people to the information, library 2.0 takes information to the people as it has brought library services to the internet making users more involved through user participation. They further go to tell us how library 2.0 has benefited from the services of web 2.0 as people can view online, borrow locally, request from afar and buy or sell as appropriate to their needs and circumstance.
II. Article in a print journal
9. Zainab, Abdullah Abrisah. (2006). Ascertaining factors motivating use of digital libraries and formulating user requirements using Zachman Framework. Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science University of Malaya.Vol 11 No.2 pp 21-38
The writers bring forward the need for a Collaborative Digital Library (CDL). They should be designed in consideration to user needs participants with various strengths needs and experiences, interests. Using zachman framework (www.zifa.com) especially as many students are ready and willing to make use of the digital library
B. Books
10. Taylor, Joie (2006). Information Literacy and the School Library Media Center: Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides in School, Westport c2006 by Joie Taylor
This particular book has essential implications to the improvement of teaching information literacy. The writer defines Information Literacy and shows how it is used in the classrooms (i.e. in education) AASL and AECT IL standards. Explains what an information fluent individual is; should be able to use more than one research process and be able to choose the one that best meet its topic. This is important because if one does not understand what Information fluency is, it will be difficult to use web 2.0 tools to augment it.
11. Teresa Y. Neely. (2006). Information Literacy Assessment. Standards-Based tools and Assignments. American Library Association
Teresa Y. Neely brings about the ACRL standards and its importance to information literacy being able to access information effectively and efficiently and using it ethically. She goes further explain them in detail and how they will aid us to be information literate.
C. Thesis and Dissertation
12. Mbabu, Loyd G., (2008). A content analysis of information literacy courses in master's degree programs of library and information studies. Retrieved last September 17 2008 at http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb
This research aimed at a content analysis of textbooks used for instruction of information literacy courses in Masters in Library and Information tries to differentiate between lower-level basic skills from upper-level more sophisticated skills. A studies program was conducted. The hypotheses was that these courses identified specific competencies of information literacy at various stages of learning and differentiated between lower-level basic skills from upper-level more sophisticated skills but the courses fell short of the scholarly expectations of clearly identifying between lower-level basic skills from upper-level more sophisticated skills.
13. Nestor, Mark H (2007). An information literacy workshop for faculty development at the Cranbury School Retrieved last September 17 2008 at http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb
This research aids teachers to integrate information literacy skills into their curriculum. Thus teachers had to be educated on how integrate Internet research skills into the Cranbury School curriculum so that they will be able to disseminate literacy skills to the students.
It illustrates the importance of information literacy especially among teachers who participated in the workshop because at the end of the workshop the course was recommended as a professional development activity for all the teachers of the Cranbury School. This goes to show that information literacy is very important especially as those teachers who participated in the course did a lot better after.
D. Magazines
14. Peter Godwin, Jo Parker. (2008). Information literacy meets library 2.0. (Reference & Research Book News) Retrieved last September 17 2008 at http://www.highbeam.com/
This article is from High Beam research which has been named as the "Best Online Reference Service" by the CODiE Awards; a premiere online library where you can find research, facts, and articles it has been written mostly for those involved in library sciences. The writers are members of the SCONUL Working Group on Information Literacy. They are involved with the collection of research papers on the methods and strategies librarians are current using to expand their services to include these new innovations.
The writers discuss on various topics such as Podcasting, information literacy, RSS feeds and how to use popular tools such as YouTube, Google and Wikipedias and how they are used to enhance the learning experience.
15. Rudman, Riaan J. (2007). WEB 2.0 THE INTERNET IS VERSIONING... 1.0, 2.0. Accountancy SA Article: 2 Retrieved last September 17 2008 at http://www.highbeam.com/
The author tries to explain the differences between Web 2.0 and web 1.0. Different people view web 2.0 in different ways since it has no currently set standard. He goes forth to bring some of the advantages of web 2.0:
Web 2.0 implies an improvement and better version of what has been previously available. It is used by businesses to improve on both internal and external communication through blogs and wikis. To improve on Marketing: whereby the rich users interface lets companies to use inexpensive devices such as podcasts or blogs to conduct marketing and promotional activities.
Business applications incorporated will enable faster and easier decisions. For example, Really Simple Syndication (RSS) services such as Newsvlne.com to source information from various sites at one location.
16. Robert Boeri (2007). Acrobat 8 and Content 2.0 EContent 30, no: 2 Retrieved September 17 2008 at http://www.highbeam.com/
The writer of this article is a senior enterprise content systems analyst for a D.C.-area firm. He points to the vital necessity of web 2.0 in making the web an application platform whereby people cooperate to create rich data. Languages like SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) and XML [(Meta-) Markup Languages] are used to repurpose and reprocess documents because they enable data to remain readable and sharable for decades.
The role of Acrobat 8 here is that it provides a key Web 2.0 feature: collaboration. Users have the option of sharing contents about PDF files on servers or via rich web-based collaboration. Acrobat 8 Professional also lets you combine documents from diverse applications with different binary formats into a single PDF file. Images, presentations, web pages.
E. Paper Presented at a Conference
17. Trevor Bond. (2007). 21st Century Classroom (Paper presented at Waimarino ICT cluster mini conference: August 30th 2007) Retrieved September 17 2008 from
http://ictnz.com/handouts/21st%20Century%20Classroom.pdf
He explains who a literate person is and he quotes from Alvin Toffler; “The Literate of the 2000s is not the person who can read and write, the new literate is the person who can learn, unlearn and re-learn.” He goes further to explain how classrooms or teachers in New Zealand are making use of the 2000s technologies in schools. The values of traditional literacy of reading, writing, and speaking can not be debated upon but, then, the digital and artistic literacy empowers learners. Communication, learning, and social life can never be separated from technology As technology has totally pervaded the world
F. Web Sources
18. Darlene Fichter (2006).Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and Radical Trust: A First Take. University of Saskatchewan Canada Retrieved September 19 2008 http://library2.usask.ca
Darlene Fichter gives a very short definition of web 2.0. “Library 2.0 = (books 'n stuff + people + radical trust) x participation.” He tries to explain the fact that libraries are made of people and stuff and for library or web 2.0 to be successful then we should render trust on people even though we know they might falter. I believe the reason he is saying this is because some people do not belief information from blogs wikis etc
From what Flitcher is saying it can be seen that for information to be fluent then people should be given a chance to communicate and interact with the libraries.
19. George Lorenzo. (2007). Catalysts for Change: Information Fluency, Web 2.0, Library 2.0, and the New Education Culture, (Clarence Center, NY: Lorenzo Associates, Inc., 2007), Retrieved September 19 2008 at http://www.edpath.com/stn.htm.
The writer defines Web 2.0 as a term for generating discussions that represent all of the very latest and reasonably foreseeable widespread functions and devices that people utilize in an online modality. He explains how web 2.0 holds the mechanisms and infrastructures for facilitating modern methods to create, share, publish and promote information. As such, thinking beyond e-mail and basic websites, to social networking, web services technologies, and the next iteration of blogs, wikis and pod casts. Web 2.0 is about the more human aspects of interactivity. It’s about conversations, interpersonal networking, personalization, and individualism.
He goes further present a comprehensive knowledge of what web 2.0 is and how Web 2.0/Library 2.0 world are influencing how information is disseminated and shared, and how knowledge is gained.
20. Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. 2005: 21st century information fluency project: Digital Information fluency Model. Retrieved September 19 2008 http://21cif.imsa.edu/
Here, the author sees Digital Information Fluency (DIF) as the ability to find, evaluate and use digital information effectively, efficiently and ethically. Brings about an information model on how to be able to locate information, how to know it is good and how to use it morally.
21. Judy Brown (2008). Web 2.0 tools Retrieved September 19 2008 from http://www.judybrown.com/tools.html
Judy Brown (once named one of the Top 100 women in computing by McGraw Hill's Open Computing magazine December 1994) sees web 2.0 to deal with a more engaging, personal interactive web, running applications on the web rather desktop. She goes further to bring forth various examples of web 2.0 and she has evaluated these applications and their uses. For example; Youtube enhances video; Slideshare enhances presentations and Flickr photos. All these are analyzed in her website. As an educationalist, she has brought about an elaborative approach to these web 2.0 tools and this goes a long way to show how they can promote and enhance information literacy in schools
22. Kate Watson and Chelsea Harper (December 2006). Using Blogs and Wikis to Communicate With Library Clients. Australian Library and Information Association Retrieved September 19 2008 from http://www.alia.org.au/
The authors of this article give a definition of what web 2.0 is. They cite from Michael Casey who sees it as an evolution especially as libraries that have integrated library 2.0 are making the users to participate in the services that they offer. They see web 2.0 as a mutual or two way area where information is being published and shared among the users.
23. Moira Bent (2007). The Seven Pillars of Information Literacy model. Society of College, National and University Libraries ©Copyright SCONUL 2007 Retrieved September 19 2008 from http://www.sconul.ac.uk/groups/information_literacy/sp/sp/model.html
The Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL) in 1999 came up with the Information literacy model. The information skills model attempts to show the relationships between the ‘competent information user’ at the base level, and the much more advanced idea of information literacy. The ‘pillars’ show an iterative process whereby information users progress through Competency to expertise by practising the skills.
24. Slideshare Inc. Slideshare © 2008 Slideshare Inc. Retrieved September 19 2008 from http://www.slideshare.net/
An example of how to use web 2.0 tools to share information to the audience. This incorporates Microsoft PowerPoint and makes it easier for the users to share and receive information or ideas and thoughts from one another. It is the best way of sharing presentations.
25. University of Central Florida 2008. What UCF Students need to know about Information Fluency? Retrieved September 19 2008 from http://www.if.ucf.edu/
The authors explain what information fluency is all about. Whereby people who are information fluent should be able to collect, evaluate and use information rightly; that is, ethically and legally.
According to UCF someone who is information fluent should be able to: “Articulate the problem in a selected context, recognize the need for information to address the problem, Identify the available information sources (domain.), Iteratively collect, analyze, and assess (evaluate critically) the relevant information, integrate new information with pre-existing knowledge and context, Draw conclusions, effectively communicate results and decisions and follow up on actions.”
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