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I've been thinking about Sarah Clark's posting The Dark Side of Library 2.0, Part 1: It's the Patron, Stupid!" over at The Scattered Librarian. I attempted to leave a comment, but for some reason it wouldn't post, and I saw...
You've had a few days to ponder questions I posed in Part 1 about the site Psychosocial Parameters of Internet Addiction. Being the savvy librarians and information professionals that you are, and naturally surpicious of my leading questions, you've surely...
I'm pleased that ACRL has invited me to edit a publication on Library 2.0 Initiatives in Academic Libraries. I'm even more pleased that the organization approved my idea to supplement the monograph with a post-publication wiki to provide updates to...
Web 2.0 - and by extension, its progeny Library 2.0 - assumes that users know that they're doing. They can create content, edit content, upload and share content, vote, rate and rank content, classify content, and comment on content. The...
Library as Place is a category on this blog. What about Organization as Place? Over the past few days, I've been reading numerous blog postings from the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle. Probably many of you have done the same....
I was very pleased to see Karen Coomb's article in the January issue of Information Today, "Building a Library Web Site on the Pillars of Web 2.0." Karen describes her work at the University of Houston Libraries to revamp the...
I've been thinking about the various barriers that inhibit academic libraries from launching into the 2.0 world. I've read plenty of articles and blog postings about this, as we all probably have done. We could all make lists of the...
The Institute for the Future of the Book has done it again. Last month, this group published a blog edition of The Iraq Study Group Report based on a customization of the WordPress blogging software. It was done in collaboration...
My dean has asked me to give him a list of recommended Library 2.0-related projects when my sabbatical ends in March. He deserves kudos for suggesting such a thing. It's a hopeful sign when your dean makes such a request....
A lot has been said about the importance of libraries in offering the human factor. We're not just empty search boxes or impersonal Web sites. We provide services with knowledgeable people you can talk to, explore a question with, look...