Libraries and Web 2.0
Kendra K. Levine posted a thoughtful article on the state of Web 2.0 instruction in library school a couple of days ago. The point from her article that really got me thinking, however, was this:
I think it’s understandable that many people are leery of the “hype†because so many people talk about Web 2.0 applications in libraries, or Library 2.0, in a very superficial way. They say, “Isn’t this neat?†rather than say why it’s neat. Library Attack » Blog Archive » Library School- Not Web 2.0 enough?
Having just spent 2 days teaching a group of librarians not only what Web 2.0 is, but what it’s useful for (I hope), I’d like to take on this challenge! I’ll use the services that we covered in our recent class, and discuss each of them with an eye toward how they are really useful in a library setting. Hopefully, this will help some of the folks out there who think that Twitter, del.icio.us, Facebook, Myspace, Flickr, YouTube, Slideshare, Goodreads/LibraryThing and Blogs/Wikis in general are neat ideas, but aren’t sure how to implement them. Stay tuned, I’m ready to write!
March 4th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Of course I’m biased but I think we did a great job of showing not only how “neat” each of the tools was but how libraries can use them to serve their patrons better and how librarians can use them to make their lives easier! Even our staff does a great job in the LL2.1 lessons on tying them to patron and library use!
March 4th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Of course I’m biased but I think we did a great job of showing not only how “neat” each of the tools was but how libraries can use them to serve their patrons better and how librarians can use them to make their lives easier! Even our staff does a great job in the LL2.1 lessons on tying them to patron and library use!