You tube

Well I search around on YouTube for a while and did not really find anything worth adding to my site. While I find this interesting and all, there is a bit of " I am wasting my time with this" going on

web 2.0

Looked at the short list of winners and recognized one of the music ones mentioned by one of our past student workers

http://www.pandora.com/

I really like this site--you enter the type of music you like and the site helps you find other artist similar to it. Good way to find new music.

How related to library--don't know really.

#18 and #19

Web-based apps--seems like they could be very useful. Checked out Thinkfree from Google Docs and Spreadsheets and also browsed around Zoho a bit. Think they would be great for collaboration and to get away from individual computer based applications.

Added to OULibrariesLearn WIKI

okay, think I finally go that right.

16 and 17 WIKIS

Wikis--they seem to be everywhere and for everything!

#15 Library 2.0

1. Read two or three of the perspectives on Library 2.0 from the list above.

2. Create a blog post about your thoughts on any one of these?

I read several of these and decided to comment on the first one: Away from the “icebergs”. I was struck by this important fact As a Web 2.0 reality continues to emerge and develop, our patrons will expect access to everything – digital collections of journals, books, blogs, podcasts, etc. You think they can’t have everything? Think again.

Many libraries, including OU Libraries are still stuck in the just-in-case mode of collection development. I know that things are changing and we are trying to move to a more technologically-friendly and easy-access collection. However, we also need to work on building the infrastructure before we can really offer our patron access to many of our amazing (and not so amazing) collections. Yes, we have some amazing collections that we can and should be putting out there in many forms that the whole Web 2.0/Library 2.0 are trying to promote, but we need support--from the ground up. I do hope that we can move from the just-in-case type of library into the new digital ages sometime soon.

#14 Technorati

Well I did a keyword search in the exact phrase for all Blog and one of the first items to come up for me was this one

http://joblogment.blogspot.com/2007/07/library-20-whats-next.html

which is believe is one of Alden library users blog (Jo's I think).

Honestly, I am not sure how useful this type of searching is for me, in either my professional or personal life. I am not all that interested in reading running commentary on subjects I find interesting. I think there is a lot of reading about irrelevant stuff, just to get to the one thing you might find interesting, know what I mean.

Maybe I am just not getting this one...............