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I was struck - though not surprised - by the 200+ communities that sprung up on Facebook immediately following the April 16 Virginia Tech shootings. I've been looking at some of them. Clearly Facebook is playing a major role as...
We all know the importance of radical trust as a component of Library 2.0. Most of the discussion I've seen about this concept relates to the radical trust of library users. I've discussed this, myself. But what about radical trust...
I've been pondering the Top Ten Assumptions for the future of academic and research libraries released about a month ago by the ACRL Research Committee. On reading it, my reaction was, Is that all? I was hoping for something more...
The other day, I wrote an entry about concepts of Web 3.0. In it, I mentioned that "...of the most important tenets of Library 2.0 is the one that transcends Library 2.0. I'm referring to the notion that libraries evolve...
Don't panic. I realize that my blog is nominally about Library 2.0. However, one of the most important tenets of Library 2.0 is the one that transcends Library 2.0. I'm referring to the notion that libraries evolve as our users'...
Oh yes I surely do. Web 2.0 is an exciting place for librarians to be. The number of choices we have for hosting our 2.0 activities is amazing. And that's the problem. Let's consider the options for keeping up with...
As an academic librarian, I've been trying to get a handle on the emerging parameters of social scholarship. This is the practice of scholarship in which the use of social tools is an integral part of the research and publishing...