Shared, Trust, or Referral Library?

August 14th, 2005

My concern with utlilizing social networks (online and off) in libraries continues as I read about their importance in the ever-changing world of how consumers relate and work with one another to locate information (online and off). Libraries shouldn’t fall behind. Take a look at the following quote from an an article from Time.com:

“A growing group of companies is trying to figure out how to turn the cacophony of personalized information into usable form — and viable businesses. They call it the Shared, Trust or Referral Economy, and it is the current obsession of every Web company from Amazon to Yahoo!.”

Should libraries try to get involved? I think so.

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