Library Technology Reports, September/October 2007 vol. 43/no. 5 issue revisits Web 2.0 & Libraries. It is edited by Michael Stephens, Ph.D at the Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science in River Forest, Illinois.
Issues, trends and technologies are explored in the nine chapters of this journal. I'll be highlighting topics from each of the chapters over the next few weeks - if you haven't experimented with blogs, wikis or flickr, it's not too late.
Keep this quotation in mind as we look at Web 2.0 & Libraries: "Society has determined what the library of the past has been, and it is society that will determine what the library of the future shall be." Jesse Hauk Shera, The Foundations of Education for Librarianship (John Wiley & Sons, 1972), p. 135. Prophetic?
Chapter 1 - The Ongoing Web Revolution
"The Web has changed. It's rebooted and become more engaging, interactive, and participatory. We're still in the midst of that change...." Are libraries and librarians participating? Do you have ideas for making our new library catalog more interactive? Are you reading the blogs fellow staff are posting and making comments? Are you keeping up with the new trends in technology that our patrons are asking about?
Examples of LCPL blogs:
http://hobartlibrary.blogspot.com/
http://businesslines.blogspot.com/
http://regionroots.blogspot.com/
http://lcplweb.blogspot.com/
Take a look at what other libraries are doing:
Hennepin County Library's BookSpace - www.hclib.org/pub/bookspace
Foto Fun
http://plcmc.org/fotofun/default.asp
If you need more information, I have a list of Web 2.0 Resources. cs
