Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Exercise 15 - Library 2.0 - I'm getting more comfortable about the idea of Library 2.0 and and I can see that it's what most students really want. Especially younger ones. They aren't comfortable with Library 1.0 so it's up to library's to meet them where they are comfortable. Isn't that what we always do! As long as I've been associated with libraries we've been on the forefront of using technology. Sometimes it was successful and sometimes not. It's hard to know what is going to take off and be really useful and what won't. I'm thinking back to the large videodiscs and cd-roms which were a neat concept, but were so limited. There were too many hoops to jump through and most people want easy access and have it be easy to use. I am working on revising our library's virtual file (selected websites by topic) and thinking I may use something like Rollyo to mesh all the selected websites for one topic so a person could find great info on just that topic I need to play around with the idea a bit. Again the time factor. Right now my goal is to finish this 23 Things project.

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