Library 2.0
Posted by jfobert on January 14, 2008
I felt “11 reasons why Library 2.0″ hit closest for home too me. For sometime we have been talking at our library about the need to meet the students where they live. This has meant blogs and IM tools. We were very successful with the IM utility but the Blog technology has not been used as effectively. Interdepartmental integration was discussed in the article. We have seen this in action. We have recently brought IT over to the library and had to “knock down some walls”. While we all see this as beneficial and are enthusiastic, we also have discovered what big differences there are in our customer service ideas.
L2’s impact on the authority debate has always concerned me. I guess we just need to educate our users. It was easier before when we could control the authority by not adding materials from suspect organizations. Maybe the time we save concentrating on our print collections can be spent producing tutorials and educating our users. What do you think?
