Evaluation

The Web 2.0 theme is about to hit Waverley Library like some sort of pre-coordinate firestorm!!

Information/Reference:

Waverley Library is bound to the idea of Web 2.0 as the definition stands in its most basic of parameters. However, with its limitation of < 30 personal computers this may be hard to recognize from the beginning and the library has in fact balanced this feature by merging new technology with existing library spaces.

Direct access to the internet, smart-boards, discussions, 'social' catalogues and confidence in using computers and devices have positive impact on a person's skill to participate fully in the society in which they live. Technology enthusiasts, coders and programmers will be given options to try new products through a tech loans initiative that will in turn drive curiosity or opinions about the library through the social media wave.

In addition Waverley Library is also motioning for the new Massively Open Online Course hosting (MOOC) which will cradle a huge potential for personal independence and correspondence across the board

Increasing acceptance of personal-service offers the library opportunity to move some systems and procedures online and make it easier for customers to interact with the Library and access services and resources they want and need.

Potential efficiencies include automated services reducing the need for staff intervention, digital verification and social media over print resources, and an improved library website for meaningful access to library information.

 Local Studies;

The council is doing lots of work to ensure that the community engage at high functioning within the  Waverley library community especially, as they seek to both strengthen and embody their collection.  
In a new social dimension, the library wants to assume a mixture of professional management as well as have great readers and clients alike looking for books to personally imprint in the collection in an effort to teach and expand on the fringe, underground cultures that should ultimately bridge the gap that current CDP(collection development policy) cant. This could represent a more metaphorical movement in the library, that is readers and members can physically review the meat of the collection in a way, by affecting titles inside any one other particular collection -- generating a living, breathing mood into the collection shelves.

Children's;

The children of the surrounding community in Waverley library are in high priority in terms of their journey within the positive correlation with the Waverley Together 3 council plan aimed at cultural change. The web 2.0 format has a distinct feature of a disconnect from the electronic world when children need to learn away from the computer or tablet screen. Waverley library encourages small children to describe in their own words what books are about aloud to their friends/peer groups in a learning group. This, considered could be analogous to the child scrawling out a brief summary about a book on an ipad as he/she is learning to read.