Categories Web 2.0 & Library 2.0

http://www.libraryforlife.org/subjectguides/index.php/Main_Page Our Reference Librarians and Web Developer are hard at work on this new project! And let me be the first to say they are making great strides to move SJCPL toward Library 2.0! What you’ll find is librarian created subject pages in the grand tradition of Kansas City PL via a Mediawiki installation. All of the staff have been trained and are creating pages in their areas of interest and expertise. It gets me going! Our library users will be able to get logins and post under the TALK tabs. Let the conversations begin! Give it look sometime and […]

http://www.librarycrunch.com/2005/11/3_degrees_of_separation_librar.html Rochelle’s post gave me so much to think about (and it broke my heart a little too) but poster work must come first. In the meantime, Mr. Casey of LibraryCrunch totally gets it! Please read and comment!

Want another reason to add one of the best Library 2.0 blogs to your feeds? Michael Casey’s LibraryCrunch is feed of the day at Feedster! (and check out this HOT post about wireless devices and libraries!)

Wired News: Tags Sort Out Music Mess Nice piece at Wired about tagging music collections: To compensate, programmers invented tags, which are pieces of text and graphics that live in the MP3 file and can be parsed by most jukebox players. Tags that are complete and well-organized make it possible to find the perfect song to fit the mood of your intimate dinner party or Dionysian rager. Anything short of that and your guests will long have departed by the time you’ve located the tune. Soon enough, my hobby as a music collector morphed into one of a librarian.

http://techsource.ala.org/blog/blog_detail.php?blog_id=96 Jenny looks at The Social Customer Manifesto, points to Blyberg’s outstanding ILS Customer Bill of Rights and proposes The Online Library User Manifesto. They all are incredible. I am particularly fond of: I want to help shape services that I’ll find useful. That’s the “involve your users from the get-go” part I mentioned here: “Are you planning for a new building or for a new technology initiative? I’m sure your technolust is in check, but are you involving your community from the get-go? Is the project/plan blog keeping folks “in the know” about how their tax dollars, student fees, […]

Please think seriously about internally blogging the plans/meetings/notes/minutes for any BIG PROJECT that is in the planning stages. This is simple buy-in as well as a way to test the waters of social software. It will keep your staff informed every step of the way. Ask for comments as well and look to start conversations. I can’t tell you how important it is to give the staff a means to talk and that it’s okay to spend some time doing so. Then, move to external blogs for various services and users. Bring together some of your newer librarians with the […]

With all of this talk about Social Software, it strikes me how much stuff we actually put out online for others to discover, discuss and develop into their own stuff. It’s like a huge ocean of folks’ professional and personal information, that some have found to be useful and somewhat addictive! I’m amazed by the glimpses into our lives we put forth — especially with flickr. We see folks’ homes, spouses/SOs, families, children, cars, dogs, cats, vacations, as well as happy times and moments of intense heart-breaking emotion. Throughout the Public Libraries track at IL05, many of the speakers referred […]

http://www.blyberg.net/2005/11/20/ils-customer-bill-of-rights/ Please read John Blyberg’s ILS Customer Bill of Rights. It’s excellent and part of the discussion playing out concerning Library 2.0, relations with vendors and the future of libraries. I’m enjoying these conversations. Keep em coming!