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The Great Debate – Has library 2.0 fulfilled its promise?

July 16, 2009
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The Great Debate – Has library 2.0 fulfilled its promise?

This is the last session from ALA I took notes on. It went by fast and I tried to be as accurate as possible. Has library 2.0 fulfilled its promise? Modorated by Roy Tennant The panel consisted of : David Lee King, Meredith Farkas, Michael Porter and Cindi Trainor What is library 2.0 – Cindi – create spaces for people, value participation Michael – what libraries do to fulfill role as community anchors has to change, mentioned KBG text company, they will answer your reference question but you to pay for it Meredith – about being user focus, seeing creation of service as an iterative process, we need to stop making assumptions about users based on articles, assuming services are working without doing surveys David – using wikipedia as an example, it’s a wiki that allows people to edit and access and share info in a way that hasn’t been done before, Michael – library 2.0 is a buzz word more interested in functionality and what works, read some answers from Twitter to Question has library 2.0 fulfill its promise, see responses under #lib20prom Cindi relates library 2.0 to web 2.0 by Tim OReilly, allows us to harness our collective

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Is Library 2.0 and/or Web 2.0 really serving our patrons?

August 19, 2008
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I saw and participated in a discussion on this on one of my email lists last week. I thought I’d take more time to write out my thoughts and responses on my blog.  Sarah posted this over in MaintainIT but it looks like she didn’t open it up for comments so I’m going to. Here is part of the email I sent the list One of the problems I’ve seen with 2.0 is the library runs out and gets a blog or facebook page or whatever and declares themselves 2.0. They don’t consider who they are trying to reach, what they are trying to accomplish, how they will accomplish it or measure success. We need to take the same approach to 2.0 that we’ve taken to library services for years. Not every tool will work for every library and community. Some libraries have wildly successful film programs or extensive tools for small businesses, but not every library does. We look at what our community needs and what works best for them. The same approach should be taken with your web tools. My answer is yes.  I think there are many aspects of Library 2.0 (and web 2.0) that are providing

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Workshop Wrap Up

August 18, 2008
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Workshop Wrap Up

On Friday I finished the last day of the four day Becoming 2.0 workshop.  I’m not used to spending that much time talking to people, some days I don’t talk to anyone.  So at the end I was pretty tired, but that’s passed and now I’m just excited.  There were 17 “students” and everyone of them has at least one thing they were planning to start when they got back to their library and each one was different.  The great part of Web2.0 (or the Social Web) is that you can take what works for you and your patrons, and they are doing just that.  As part of the class we had them create blogs and I really hope they keep blogging so we can follow what they are doing.  I have to say that this was a great group of people they were all willing to share tips and tricks and suggestions with us and each other.  So thank you to all of them.  I’d also like to say thank you to MOREnet who never fails to to be a wonderful host! They really go out of their way to make everything run smoothly!   Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post

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Becoming 2.0 – What 2.0 can do you for you

August 12, 2008
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Becoming 2.0 – What 2.0 can do you for you

After much preperation the time has finally arrived!  This week I’m cohosting a Web 2.0 workshop sponsered by MOREnet and the Missouri State Library.  The topic – They asked us to talk about using Web 2.0 tools in your library!  Even better, my cohost and I created the whole thing using Google Docs.  How else are two people going to edit a presentation at all hours of the day and night?  These will not be on my slideshare account if you want to see them you’ll have to check them out on the wiki after the end of the week.  They wont all be up until the end of the workshop on Friday.  If you don’t have, don’t want or just aren’t signed into your Google account you can watch the presentation.  But if you want to get more from the presentation you should sign in.  If you log in with your Google account you can see the Speakers Notes.  You’ll be able to see the notes the speaker has entered for each slide, and in this case who is responsible for each section of the presentation.  Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Buzz it up Share on

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We are del.icio.us!

August 28, 2007
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We are del.icio.us!

With a “to do” list a mile long I feel as though I’ll never get anything finished. Technically this isn’t finished either as it’s meant to be a living page and it’s well on it’s way. My library is using our del.icio.us account to create our Weblinks page for our patrons. Robin set up the page using dishy and I’ve been busy adding links left and right. This is so much easier than maintaining a classic weblinks page, the Reference staff only has to know how to use del.icio.us and agree on a taxonomy for tags. No need to know html or use page editing software, which makes our website designer happy too. No creating each link manually or worry about ordering and descriptions. All I have to do it find the webpage, tag it with del.icio.us, assign my tags, add any descriptors I feel are necessary and voila it’s on our page. It’s just as easy to delete or update links too. As I’ve been browsing other Library’s Weblinks page for links to include on ours, I was surprised to see no one else using this method. I’m sure they are out there, I just haven’t found one yet.

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