Library Video tour example (SUNY Potsdam)

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Value-added libraries

Today I have been thinking a lot about book discussions and libraries, particularly academic libraries.  My library is sponsoring a faculty book discussion next week, around the book The View From the Center of the Universe, and it got me thinking about why my library doesn’t do more book discussion projects.  Time is, of course, [...]

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Library 2.0 is about power shifting

Kathryn Greenhill writes about the shifting of libraries’ power and Library 2.0 on her blog, Librarians Matter.   Kathryn makes some valid points about this shift in power:  users creating their own idea of a library and the power of libraries to take risks.  I think for years we were so bound by tradition and the [...]

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Successful blogging

Meredith Farkas writes about successful blogging over at Information Wants to Be Free:
“What makes your blog a success depends on what your goals for it are. Why do you blog? Looking at the responses I saw in the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere, I didn’t see anything about having the most subscribers, having the highest Google [...]

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Web 2.0 apps for students

Great compilation of 2.0 tools for students.  The tools are aimed at mostly college students, but I suppose the list could be adapted for elementary and secondary ed students.  Tools like Zoho Office Suite which has a whole cadre of free word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications.  JotCloud and ShortText for taking notes, Facebook and [...]

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Blogs, Podcasts and Wikis @ RRLC

Today I teach the Blogs, Podcasts and Wikis workshop at RRLC in Rochester.  Participants are from the Rochester, NY region and come from public, special, academic, school and medical libraries.  Tell me what you hope to gain or learn from this workshop!

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Library 2.0 in your neighborhood

I found this piece while googling library elites for a podcasting talk I gave today.  David King wrote about Mary Madden’s recent blog post on the Pew Internet and American Life Project’s website: “This is Library 2.0“.  Mary gave a presentation in  King’s Kansas “neighborhood” and made a delightful observation:
While books are still obviously the [...]

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Michael Casey article

Most readers have probably seen this article by Michael Casey and Laura Savastinuk about Library 2.0, printed in the September 2006 issue of Library Journal, but I had not read it until today.   Much like Laura Cohen’s 2.0 manifesto, this article provides a good starting point for those new to the Web or [...]

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Public library with a Web 2.0 mission

This very cool story about the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County gives me hope for libraries and relevancy in the 21st century!  The IT director charged her staffers with finding and using Web 2.0 technologies in the course of their jobs.  The results? They developed a program called Learning 2.0 which is being [...]

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An action plan for Library 2.0

Laura Cohen has written an article in this month’s American Libraries magazine about “A Manifesto for Our Times”, in regards to the posting she wrote on her blog, Library 2.0: An Academic’s Perspective. The post is about her “rallying cry” to librarians embracing the 2.0 ethic and how Library 2.0 is a “…response [...]

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