06 February 2008

Thing 2- What is Library 2.0 anyways?

Library 2.0 is the library community's response to all the exciting and interactive things that have been developed for Web 2.0. I am really looking forward to exploring in-depth things like Facebook and Flickr and Wikis, and seeing how they can be applied to my professional life as a librarian. I am lucky that working at SELCO, I am given the time for exploring these new ideas through-out the work week.

Even though I am well versed in many aspects of the web and web developing )I worked for an ISP for 3 years in the late 1990s), many parts of Library 2.0 & Web 2.0 ellude me. I've used social networking sites in the past like MySpace, but have allowed my accounts to languish since I do not have time to maintain them, and in all honesty, I don't see their attraction to so many people. I hope that with participating in 23 Things on a Stick I will see the usage of all these applications as they relate to libraries and serving our publics. This is what I ultimately hope to gain from this experience.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

in which the Annoyed Librarian, from her perch in the Outer Void, discourses on Library 2.0 and other topics:

http://annoyedlibrarian.blogspot.com/search/label/Library%20Trends