In the “Noticed by Muggles” Department, The Institute for the Future of the Book notes (approvingly, I assume) that the University of Pennsylvania library catalog is offering user tagging. My murky brain wonders if other libraries are doing this…
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Launched after a discussion with a passionate young librarian who cares. Please challenge, change, add to, subtract from, edit, tussle with, and share these thoughts.
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All technologies evolve and die. Every technology you learned about in library school will be dead someday.
You fear loss of control, but that has already happened. Ride the wave.
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Folks here and there have observed that Michael Stephens and Jenny Levine are doing a bang-up job leading instruction in an innovative Library 2.0 Boot Camp, complete with blogs, wikis, podcasts, and bards, but as Greg over at Open Stacks notes, something is a twee awry with the technical environment they were provided. [...]
Part of being on the bus is understanding we’re not driving it alone any more… or as I’ve said in the past, information is increasingly a conversation.
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Sarah “Librarian in Black” Houghton blogged a response to a message I posted to the California Library Association list as my contribution to a discussion about the Pew Internet and American Life report announcing that the Web for many people is increasingly a leisure destination. Good response from her, but I am repeating my post [...]
