Earlier this week I was lucky enough to join in a podcast recording with the new Library 2.0 Gang:
I’m often asked when we are going to bring back the regular Library 2.0 Gang podcast show, especially after the special we did on Roy Tennant’s Library Software Manifesto, back in December.
The great news is that the [...]

Here is my presentation from today’s roundtable meeting:

Library 2.0 & the HumanitiesNFAIS - Humanities Roundtable, New York, NY, October 22, 2007

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Michael pointed me to this interview with John Blyberg - I haven’t finished it yet because lunch is over, but I’m sure it’s worth a listen/looksie

Remember this video? Almost every Web 2.0 talk starts with this video now. Thanks to Stephen I now know that this professor has put together more videos.
Information Revolution
A Vision of Students Today (This is the latest and it’s awesome! A MUST SEE VIDEO. I lve the creation process too.)
Other videos are available [...]

I was having a chat with Chris Schwartz the other day about which technologies we should be looking at for our library. She asked me if I thought we needed to pay attention to Second Life - if this was really where our students were. I don’t know the answer to this without asking [...]

Tyler Rousseau has a great post over at Library Garden in which he asks:
But how did we get to this stage? Why do we have professional librarians who refuse to keep up with the professional and technological requirements? How did we reach a point where the patrons' needs were less important than the traditional way [...]

A post at Tame the Web by Juliette Loebl (an MLIS student) makes me a bit jealous!
I am not tech-savvy. I would never hire myself to design a professional-looking website, or create a complex database. Yet, during the last year and a half, in library school, I have had the opportunity to experiment with new [...]

Next I heard David Lee King talk about Library 2.0 “Setting up the New Stuff”. While I obviously have a feel for some of the basic technologies that David went over, I’m still glad that I attended this event so that I can share what I learned with you all.
David broke the talk into [...]

I’m currently reading The Long Tail (I know I’m behind the times) and loving it. I want to share a few things I read this morning on the way to work (for those who haven’t read the book yet).
The first was on page 64. Anderson is talking about how we can all be producers [...]

David Lee King has a great post (a series to follow) on Inviting Participation in Web 2.0.
I've attended and/or read this past year, the presenters/writers have been saying that Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 are all about starting conversations, building community, and telling our stories. But the writer/presenter tends to skip over what [...]

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librarytwopointzero has a comprehensive comparison of three social cataloging tools: Gurulib, LibraryThing, and Shelfari.
The conclusion?
I think you can see that Librarything is my favourite. I think, in comparison to the other two, Librarything really gives you that extra.

David Lee King has a great post about Making Time for Web 2.0. He has broken out his tips into 2 groups - one for admins & one for staff (but I think everyone should read both parts - it’s not that long after all).
One of the excuses that David (and all of us) [...]

I have been trying to buy my textbooks for classes for the last 3 weeks, but Drexel does not make it easy - in fact they make it down-right difficult. First of all they “require” you to buy your books from their bookstore - how? Well you search for your class and section (using [...]

What a great article by Michael Casey and Laura Savastinuk! Found on LibraryJournal.com, Library 2.0 offers up a great definition of Library 2.0:
The heart of Library 2.0 is user-centered change. It is a model for library service that encourages constant and purposeful change, inviting user participation in the creation of both the physical and [...]

So this morning I got into work to find that I couldn’t open any of the files on our Intranet! Uh Oh!! The problem is that I get to work at 7:30am and the IT staff doesn’t arrive until 9am or later. So I twiddled my thumbs and read some blog posts. Turns [...]

From OPAL-Online:
Thursday, June 15, 2006: Alliance Library System Online Innovation Institute Library 2.0 Extravaganza!
Speaker: Michael Stephens, Writer/Trainer/Teacher/Creator of the Tame the Web Blog
This special event is sponsored by the Alliance Online Innovation Institute.

Cost: Free for all Alliance Library System members; $25.00 for all other registrants. When you sign up you will be given the [...]

I am right now attending my very first meeting in the Library 2.0 in Second Life. It’s a meeting about what we want the library to be and how we can make it that.
The discussion started with the wish for us to be able to co-browse in SL so that we can show people [...]

My Second Life Avatar
Originally uploaded by talia679.
I finally signed up for Second Life. I wanted to check out the Library 2.0 in the game. It was really amazing!
I was part of the beta testing for Second Life when the game first came out - after the beta was [...]

A little while ago I posted about how I wasn’t sure how Second Life could be used by libraries - apparently OPAL and the Alliance Library System have come up with a way:
Alliance Library System and OPAL (Online Programming for All Libraries) are pleased to announce that selected OPAL programs will soon be offered in [...]

Paul Miller has posted a follow up to his presentation at CIL last week. He commented on our (the biblioblogosphere’s) doubts that vendors will ever live up to the dream he presented to us.
Change is hard. Change can hurt. Given where we are now, and where the wider world is going, change is essential. We [...]

It makes me sad. Well it makes me angry first, but then when that passes I’m sad. I was debating whether to say anything or not - considering how upset my last (seemingly innocent) post made people, but no one is in the library yet - so I only have you guys to [...]

Dave Hook has a good post over on his site about the controversy around the name “Library 2.0″.
If we’re going to come up with a name for these ideas, I’d prefer a name along the lines of ‘The Library 2.0 Movement’ or something else that implies continous improvement.
I think that’s a great idea - when [...]

I know that you’ve been wondering since I posted about the Future of Catalogs what my favorite session was at CIL this year - well, here it is!
Paul Miller is the Technology Evangelist for Talis - how fun does that sound?? Paul said “One day I’ll have a normal job” but why would you [...]

John Blyberg has a post about Library 2.0 Websites (worth a looksie) in which he calls for us to share our code with one another (among many other things):
We ought to be developing on open-source then turning around and making our work freely available to one another. We are libraries after all, we ought to [...]