Library 2.0

While reading through the five perspectives on Library 2.0 the entry entitled Away from the Icebergs stood out to me because of its challenge to libraries to progress with the times of the information age.

One of the worst things and organism can do, whether that be a human being or an organization, is to become comfortable and stagnant in the traditionally way of doing things and fail to adapt to their evolving environment around them. This period of time is known as the information age because virtually any and all information is so easily accessible through the internet and other forms of media. While the library was once seen as a place with mostly printed information, it is now evolving into a source for all sources of information. Learn and Play is providing CML librarians the privilege opportunity to grow in our efforts to be able to give our patrons several paths to information.

Our CML website also provides a plethora of resources that aids our patrons in finding the information they need in more places then google and wikipedia. These resources provides the customer with more reliable options and causes them to utilize the library as their main source of information. We are the #1 library in the U.S. for a reason and this is mainly because of our dedication to providing more ways of accessing information through our library services.

While we have evolved more than most libraries there still remains a challenge to go even further and transition from obsolete sources of information to cutting edge sources. Our collection development process of ridding the system of books that are decades old and out of shape is a significant step in this process.

How can we further wean ourselves off of our dependency on the obsolete and rely more on the new wave of searching for information?

del.icio.us

I think del.icio.us will be very useful for me. I bookmark a lot of pages that i visit frequently or plan to visit again. I will use del.icio.us to put all of my frequnted websites that I hvae bookmarked on del.icio.us. It is kind of inconvenient to come to work and have to type the web address of the website I have book marked on my home computer but now I don't have to wast time doing that anymore. However, I will not use to to find other popular tags and anyone else bookmarked pages on a subject. I will just use it to bookmark all of my pages.

Finding Feeds

I just checked out technorati to locate a library related news feed entitled Library web chic. I just searched for "library" in the search field and looked through some of the news feeds that came back. Most of them were uninteresting to me so I just picked the lesser of two evils. Library Web Chich talks about how she is using different resources to better equip her library. She dicussed how she used Drupal to migrarte her library website into, Wordpress, iPhone, and Worldcat.

Twitter

I JUST FINISHED TRYING OUT TWITTER! I FIRST WATCED A YOU TUBE VIDEO EXPLAINING TO ME WHAT TWITTER WAS BECAUSE I HAD NO IDEA OF WHAT IT WAS BEFORE. I HADN'T EVEN HEARD ABOUT IT BEFORE LEARN AND PLAY. I OPENED UP MY ACCOUNT TODAY AND POSTED THREE TWEETS SAYING WHAT I WAS DOING AT THE TIME. I THEN FOUND A FRINED THAT WAS IN MY EMAIL CONTACTS ON TWITTER. I FOLLWED THEIR TWEETS AND THEN DECIDED AGAINST IT SO AS OF RIGHT NOW I AM JUST FOLLOWING LEARN AND PLAY. I WILL PROBABLY ALSO FOLLOW SOME OF MY CO-WORKERS HERE AT THE LIVINGSTON BRANCH.

I DID NOT LIKE MICRO-BLOGGING BECAUSE IT SEEMS UNINTERESTING AND A WASTE OF TIME TO POST WHAT EVERY UNIMPORTANT THING I AM DOING OR TO FOLLOW WHAT SOMEONE ELSE IS DOING.

LIBRARIES CAN USE TWITTER TO STAY CONNECTED TO CO-WORKERS AND SOCIALLY INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER.

HONESTLY I DON'T FIND ANY USE FOR TWITTER BUT IF I HAD TO USE IT I WOULD USE IT TO FOLLOW CONVERSATIONS ON MY FAVORITE SUBJECTS LIKE OHIO STATE FOOTBALL, CLEVELAND CAVALIERS, AND HIP HOP.