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library 2.0 – a patron’s perspective

ae-j — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:42:37 +0000

You’re probably already well up on the theorizing and navel-gazing going on in the biblioblogosphere about Library 2.0. There’s been plenty of great discussion. My favourite slice? This post by Casey Bisson on a patron’s perspective on Library 2.0. Because it’s all about the patrons.

solutions

ae-j — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:38:04 +0000

You’ve probably heard of Writely and other similar web-based document creation and collaboration tools. Well, apart from being absolutely thrilled about finally having an easy way to create and share documents between workgroups or committee members across the country (or continent, as the case may be), last night I realized that these tools also fill a very immediate public-service need: instant wordprocessing for library patrons in libraries where no productivity software is available! (duh, I know). What a nice to change to be able to say to patrons, “no, we don’t have Word on our computers, but I can show you a way to take that Word file on your flash drive and edit it online.” Writely has a great set of features and includes much of the formatting functionality that Word provides (via recognizable icons), making the interface transtition a fairly smooth one (a comprehensive review of Writely is available at TechCrunch).

Who doesn’t love solutions?

teens posting

ae-j — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:58:20 +0000

Anyone out there run a teen blog for their library that allows teens to post to the blog? Willing to share your experiences? Do get in touch. A reader asked the question and after some rudimentary hunting, I was unsuccessful in tracking down any such blogs. But I’m not convinced that there aren’t any out there so I’d love to hear from you.