Social Software in the Library
July 29th, 2004I only had a minute to peruse through Social Software in the Library (an article released a few days ago on LLRX) due a lack of forward planning on my end (I fell behind and my laptop hasn’t worked for the past few days), but it seems really interesting. I’m loving this paragraph:
“This is a critical time for both the social software industry and librarianship. On one hand, businesses, educational institutions, and government agencies increasingly are turning to social software to communicate with customers, students and constituents because other media channels have proven less effective. On the other, the increased availability of these tools suggest to the uninformed that a librarianÂ’s role is diminished or unnecessary. But librarians can use the social software movement to their advantage: librariansÂ’ proper adoption of social software not only can help the organizations for which they work, it can help boost librariansÂ’ credibility and value as information agents at a time when the value of librarians is being questioned.”
Also, I’ve subscribed to K. Matthew Dames’ weblog (shared with Stephen Arnold), which I should have done a long time ago.