Archive for the '2.0' Category
Why Do People Start Fights?
May 11th, 2008Kate Sheehan - “When people come to us ready to fight to get their needs met, they’re usually more interested in their needs then the fight.”
Ooooh. I like that. Thanks Kate!
Another Word For Plagiarize
May 9th, 2008Courthouse News Service: - “The publisher of “Roget’s 21st Century Thesaurus” claims that a competitor lifted items wholesale for an online thesaurus, and made millions of dollars from the plagiarism.”
Read the complaint
The Mayonnaise Jar and 2 Cups of Coffee
May 8th, 2008Communication Overtones - “When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 cups of coffee.
Beyond books
March 23rd, 2008GoErie - “You could think of it as an upgrade. You might even call it “Library 2.0.” Whatever the term, Erie County Public Library Director Margaret Stewart’s idea of how libraries have changed comes down to this: It’s “not your mother’s library.”
Library School- Not Web 2.0 enough?
February 26th, 2008Kendra K. Levine - “All in all, I guess I’m still uneasy about the future, but it didn’t take a report to tell me that. I guess I’m still trying to figure out the point of Web 2.0 in libraries for myself, and the library blogosphere isn’t helping.”
‘Web 2.0 in U.S. LIS Schools: Are They Missing the Boat?’
February 25th, 2008From Ariadne - “Noa Aharony asks whether library and information science schools in the United States are underestimating the opportunities offered by Web 2.0 applications.”
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Annoyed Librarian on TwoPointOhians
January 21st, 2008AL - “Librarians can be such sheep, always flocking together around the same fads.”
OK, one more quote, this one a classic:
“The twopointopians don’t have any founding documents worth returning to, so they wander in the desert trying to make sense of what they feel must be a worthwhile cult. Ugh.”
Sedona Library puts on its parent hat
January 19th, 2008Sedona.biz - “[A]ny student who is not using the Library for its intended purpose, any student who is using the Library as a hangout location will be told that they must leave the property. That means all the way down to the end of White Bear Road and Dry Creek Road.
Acceptable uses of the Library [...]
Library 2.0 Debased
January 17th, 2008John Blyberg - “I’ve been feeling, for awhile now, that the term Library 2.0 has been co-opted by a growing group of libraries, librarians, and particularly vendors to push an agenda of “change” that deflects attention from some very real issues and concerns without really changing anything.”
Um, yeah! I’ve been sayin’ that for a [...]
More Lists
December 24th, 2007The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education — 2007
Whose Making Content?
December 6th, 2007Tim Leberecht - “A new study from Nokia predicts that by 2012 a quarter of all entertainment will be created, edited, and shared within peer groups rather than being generated by traditional media.”
Keeping Up, 2.0 Style
December 6th, 2007A presentation by Anne Walsh. (via)
More From A Librarian’s Guide to Etiquette
October 25th, 2007Sal - “Make sure that you fool your bosses (who are a million times more technophobic than your grandparents) into thinking that you are ‘up on technology’ by making reference to Wikis and RSS content as if they really mattered”
Ha! Love it.
Who’s a User?
October 9th, 2007Wayne Bivens-Tatum - “Our job isn’t to make things easier for ourselves, but for the library users, and it’s easier to see that if we also, at least occasionally, are put in the place of the non-librarian library user.”
Clearly one of my favorite librar* blogs these days. Way to go Wayne.
Web 2. uh oh
October 4th, 2007Caroline McElwee - “It’s not simply a case of being shown what to do. Technology out-faces some older people. Since the newly revamped Walthamstow Library opened, I have regularly visited and left my feedback, but my most consistent complaint of lack of books continues to fall on deaf ears.”
Wait, I Thought It Was All About Technology
September 26th, 2007Jeff Scott - “If we look at the issue in a macro term, we stop thinking about a library and we begin to think about service. We then begin to think about what type of service is best for a community. The 2.0 part is how that service is communicated and implemented. How much control [...]
LOC 2.0
September 17th, 2007Matt Raymond - “As promised, the Library of Congress today launched an enhanced and, if I might say so, much spiffier homepage at LOC.gov.”
Why Me?
September 14th, 2007Annoyed Librarian - “Why is everybody always picking on me?”
Mashups?
September 6th, 2007The Krafty Librarian - “Where have all the mashups gone?”
What’s Next?
September 6th, 2007What comes after Library 2.0? Library 2.1, of course.
More Cream
September 4th, 2007Michael McGrorty - “The Two-oh folk are treading in the right direction, to be sure. The problem is that they are talking about themselves—and about other people who are willing and able to make the sort of changes, do the sort of constant reevaluative activity required, having begun from a sound base of skill [...]
Teens, Libraries and Web 2.0
August 17th, 2007Pew - “This presentation examines technology use by young patrons and suggests how the behavior and expectations of young internet users might shape the libraries of the future. Special attention is paid to the way teenagers have embraced social media tools, and the rate of adult adoption of various iconic “Web 2.0″ applications is also [...]
Two Point Zero Roundup
August 15th, 2007Ryan Deschamps - “Library 2.0 has done a lot for the library world. So, while the term and hype dies down or changes to something else, rest assured that change has occurred in big ways and that libraries are adapting to the world. They are not doing this through the institutions [...]
Using 2.0 Without Calling It 2.0
April 27th, 2007Jessamyn blogs about her talk in Suffern yesterday (It was so great catching up with her - she’s such a sweetheart):
“When I talked to the people in New York I talked more about cell phones and the ideas that libraries have already been doing a lot of 2.0-ish stuff and not even knowing it.”
Good point. [...]
Web 2.0 Lunch
February 19th, 2007What happens when the top 2.0 tools go to lunch? Hilariousness ensues.