Thursday, July 26, 2007

This is ironic since I just posted about the need for libraries to change...but I hope we never lose the beauty, feel and comfort of a good book!

ME

Web 2.0, Library 2.0 & the Future

Week 6 Thing 15
I found all of these articles very interesting because I have felt and continue to feel that the library must make major changes in order to be relevant in the future. As Rick Anderson wrote in his article, Away from the Icebergs, libraries do not have a monopoly on information anymore. In order to survive libraries must become the one stop shopping place for access to info...I loved John Reimer's To Better Bibliographic Services. He calls for a "comprehensive menu of choices in a single place." Looking for info? Let the patron access book buying services, access information/books from all libraries (public, educational institutions, etc) as simple as entering a search term and pressing a button, have RSS services pushing info patrons want directly to them. If the library does not make information available, easy to access and interactive...patrons are going to go someplace else.

I think Library 2.0 means nothing less than our survival.

ME

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Technorati

Week 6 Thing14
Per Learning 2.0 Technorati is "the leading search tool and authority for blogs." I found it confusing, unhelpful, way more info than I want or need. Some of the popular sites were of questionable taste. I did find an interesting political blog but on the whole there are easier ways to find poltical blogs. Frankly...I don't care about all these people and their endless blogs about everything and anything. I am on INFORMATION OVERLOAD! I am shutting down now.

ME

Minnesota's North Shore

Just reluctantly returned from the "land of sky blue waters'! Back to work on my 23 things!

ME

Tagging and Del.icio.us

Week 6 Thing 13
I think tagging can be helpful if it is reasonably accurate...I went to a library website that had tagging for Harlan Coban books and some of it was pretty esoteric...not sure who was allowed to do the tagging.

I found it very hard to get into Del.icio.us...just another website that needed another login. However, once I sat down and really looked at it...I found some very helpful information.
As a reference librarian I am asked a lot about Maryland divorce law...Del.icio.us provided some excellent sites I was unfamiliar with and which would be very useful. I can see using Del.icio.us to organize and make available very quickly these sites and others on a wide range of topics. These could be accessed by librarians and patrons. On a personnal note...it popped up some wonderful vintage fabric sites I have never seen!

ME