Saturday, August 18, 2007

Week 6

Added Del.icio.us to my computer.

Explored Technorati. The thing that struck me when I looked at the most popular blogs was the use of the term "favorited." This colored my opinion of the entire site.
Looked at the Learning 2.0 blog entries and found lots.

Read :
Library 2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 and Its Implications for Libraries. by Maness
The paper defines the terms in the title and explores what they mean for libraries. It was obvious that the author's conclusions were based on academic library experience. While some of his conclusions may also be applied to public libraries I felt they were too narrow to be of interest to me.

Into a New World of Librarianship by Stephens.
This article was much more interesting to me. His principles can be used by public librarians. I'd love to see a BCPL discussion at some level about user content development.

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