Wikis

As a children's librarian, I think especially appealing wikis would be those involving book recommendations and created for a local community and specific age groups there.

Library 2.0+

I only considered librarianship after the Internet started gaining popularity. It is impossible to have available in one small collection all the print materials that local customers might need. The wealth of online resources and giving guidance in Internet use were my ultimate motivations to start library school after 20 years of teaching kids. Although most of our local customers do not have Web access, such access is increasing.

I was in the second class at UT Austin for the new course "Understanding and Meeting User Needs." It amazed me that such a course was still evolving. I appreciated the warning about reliance on user education.

I believe in continuous improvement of what we offer. Field testing and concomitant modifications will surely be more productive than designing products simply based on anticipation of user needs and inclinations.

Regarding improved bibliographic services, I eagerly await such improvements. A few years ago I was happy to discover that WorldCat is much more effective than SAPL's OPAC at finding relevant SAPL materials.

I love the idea of library as "knowledge spa"!

My Flickr photo

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mysaplstaff/3114375120/ I was not able to embed the photo here.

Technorati

I like playing with words and enjoy seeing other people's wordplays, e.g. one post's knowledgeable vs. knowledge-able.



The list of related search terms is interesting and possibly very valuable.

Delicious

I'm so glad I watched the video! This was not what I expected of social bookmarking! I could have used this when I taught and had a more narrow focus for research. I don't foresee using it anytime soon.

Rollyo

I still like to see what our customers get when they use Google. I'm afraid having my own search engine could omit some valuable new or otherwise overlooked information sources.

Goodreads

I look forward to using this service in retirement when I have LOTS of time to read all kinds of things.