Explore, Discover, Play: Opportunities @2.0 Rock Frankfurt’s Library Community

Helene Blowers at the Frankfurt University Library

July 6, 2007. Helene Blowers, Public Services Technology Director for the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, introduced Frankfurt’s information professionals and students to the fascinating world of Library 2.0 at the city’s University Library. Ms. Blowers highlighted the increased emphasis on collaboration, sharing and fun (!) in the new 2.0 world, and encouraged the participants to engage their younger audiences in places like Myspace, Facebook or Youtube. She also underlined the importance of empowering and educating staff to deal with all the technological and ideological changes in their workplace.

Ms. Blowers’ presentation on using hot technologies like blogs, wikis, pod- or videocasts to connect to younger audiences inspired the diverse group that included representatives of the German National Library, Frankfurt’s Universities Libraries, the city library, company libraries, and students. Her concept “Learning 2.0” as a tool for internal staff training became so popular that participants teamed up with other German colleagues to translate it into German and use it as a model for their own professional development. 

Presentation | German version of "Learning 2.0"