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As I look back on this semester in Library 2.0, I’m amazed at how much I have learned.  At the beginning of this course, I thought I had a fairly good handle on emerging technologies, and could figure out their use in a library situation.  I’m very glad that this course has not only affirmed [...]

From fandom to marketing, stormtroopers to knowing the worth of your library, my research paper intends to show how librarians and libraries can turn nonusers into users, and those users into fans.  The first part of the paper deals with the issues of fandom, particularly as they relate to the context book I read this [...]

I miss tweeting rapidly in class already, but hopefully the following will help alleviate the withdrawal symptoms.
This picture came up on my boyfriend’s Google Reader feed, and I had to share.

Enjoy! 

I decided to make two separate policies, one for employees and one for patrons of a general public library setting.  It’s very difficult to tell patrons what they can or cannot do on social networking, even in the library where there would be public computers.  The employee list is more stringent, yes, but I believe [...]

I explored what I’m going to do for my paper here in this post .  In trying to search for support for my ideas, I came up with the following sources, as well as lining up a couple of interviews with real-life librarians, and conducting a Facebook poll .  (You do have to log in to Facebook to access [...]

Photo from Flickr – Leaving the Newberry Library For my brand monitoring assignment, I chose to take a look at a library that has always meant a lot to me; the Newberry Library right here in Chicago.  I followed the online conversation about this library for a period of about two and a half weeks, and [...]

After I completed my context book , I was struck by the ideas of fans.  In actuality, I was struck by the whole book, but I quickly realized that would make about a 60 page dissertation, rather than a 12 to 15 page research paper.  So, I’ve decided to focus my attention on the first part of [...]

Yeah, my title kind of says it all, I think. I wanted to run something by all of you…I think that my posts have been slightly more personal, and not as stuffily professional…does anyone mind that?  I can certainly rectify that if need be. Anyway, on to the actual post, I suppose.  I, like [...]

So, I’m not going to lie to you.  I picked this book up because it had a stormtrooper on the cover. I could say I was intrigued by the subject, or thought it would make a good research paper topic, but those things came later.  The first thing that grabbed my attention was that stormtrooper. [...]

As many of the readings have stated for this week, hyperlinks are, by nature, messy.  The Web itself is messy.  Therefore, by extension, wouldn’t a hyperlinked library be messy? God, I hope so. …Let me explain. I came across an interesting statement in chapter 5 of The  Cluetrain Manifesto that read as follows: “Hyperlinks are the [...]

In a way it was idiotic. He was treating these books like they were holy relics. It wasn’t like he would ever actually read them. But there was something magnetic about them, something that compelled respect, even the silly ones, like the Enlightenment treatise about how lightning was caused by bees. They were information, data, but [...]

When perusing the material on transparency in libraries, most of it written by the duo of Michael Casey and Michael Stephens, I couldn’t help but notice that, while some of the articles came from a Web 2.0/Library 2.0 perspective, all talked about a responsibility to the users that I have seen time and again in [...]

My first experience with a virtual community was when I signed up for a Livejournal in 2001.  At first, I thought that it wouldn’t be as communal as it turned out to be, but I was quickly inducted into how this community worked.  True, I had my own blog, but I also had friends who [...]

“Henry Higgins, a Hillingdon coun-cillor, said that patrons were also attracted by greater book diversity and Nintendo Wii video games that can be played on site. Mr Higgins said: ‘We looked at it and thought, why would anyone want to borrow a book from somewhere that looks dusty and antiquated? So we changed things.’” (Hamilton, [...]

Well, after reading up on all of the Twitter, my brain feels nigh on explosion. But, in a good way. I thought I was entirely conversant with most social networking technology, but some things about Twitter I just learned today, like the function of hashtags. Interesting. I seem to not have said much about myself [...]

Morning of class seemed to go very well, and fast.  I was impressed that what was described as the “longest lecture ever” went by in no time.  Got lots of good notes.  I’m thinking that it might be more efficient to download the PDF of the Powerpoint to my home computer, and not my flash [...]