At the suggestion of the Department of Research Services, the Ryan-Matura Library has recently purchased a subscription to LibGuides, a platform for the delivery of our subject guides. Subject guides have traditionally been a great help to those students who find out about their existence. There are so many students, though, who never stumble across [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Library 2.0’
Wow, LoC.
Posted in Controlled Vocabularies, Flickr, Library 2.0, Library of Congress, Tagging, collaboration, education, information, internet, participation, read-write, technology, web 2.0, tagged collaboration, Controlled Vocabularies, education, Flickr, information, internet, Library 2.0, Library of Congress, participation, read-write, Tagging, technology, web 2.0 on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not completely sure how to start this post. First, I guess with thanks to John Fudrow, else it would have been even longer before I found out about this development (how did I miss this?). My original title for this post was LOC + Flickr = Interesting, but then I saw that the LibrarianInBlack [...]
Is Library 2.0 as Overhyped as a
Posted in Library 2.0, collaboration, education, higher education, participation, tagged Academic Libraries, collaboration, education, higher education, libraries, Library 2.0, participation, participatory service, University Libraries on November 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Questions:
Does anyone care about Library 2.0 aside from librarians? (We librarians know they should…but do they?)
Why do successful uses of Library 2.0 applications/technologies seem more difficult to find than Web 2.0 applications/technologies?
What good is participatory service if nobody is participating…or, if only a few people are participating?
How much do comments, tagging, and user reviews help, [...]



