Forum - Library 2.0 2008-09-24T20:27:37Z http://library20.ning.com/forum/topic/list?feed=yes&xn_auth=no&sort=mostRecent Introduce yourself! tag:library20.ning.com,2008-09-24:515108:Comment:83606 2008-09-24T16:39:09.844Z TG Hi! Thanks for having me! I'm the IT manager for an Air Force base library. We have a long-term goal to ensure we have global reach to support military members, civilians, and their families, 24/7. We aim to maintain the brick and mortar as required, but hope to transcend the physical barriers into cyberspace so we can offer library support and services anywhere a computer can access the internet. Introduction tag:library20.ning.com,2008-09-21:515108:Topic:83566 2008-09-21T20:43:48.112Z Dorothy H. Good Afternoon! I'm joining Library 2.0 in order to both try out social networks and to find other librarians who serve patrons with impairments that create barriers to literacy. I have posted resources on my page that I use in my professional position at a school librarian for the visually-impaired. Please add any that you use, as well. Introduce yourself! tag:library20.ning.com,2008-09-20:515108:Comment:83557 2008-09-20T16:00:26.475Z Andi Sibley I've been LMS in my independent elementary school for eight years and now I am working on finishing my MLS at Clarion U. of PA. I am interested in finding out how others are using Ning and other Web2.0 apps in school libraries. Glad to find this group! Improvement is needed for customers services at our Boston Public Library and change for BPLs organizational culture. tag:library20.ning.com,2008-09-19:515108:Topic:83545 2008-09-19T10:10:17.197Z the zak Improvement is needed for customers services at our Boston Public Library and change for BPL's organizational culture. Churlish obnoxious arrogant employees make difficult the navigating of library collections, make difficult our library services' usability. Important BPL people that library users/clientele/customers/consumers depend on to interpret collections and services can be too tricky to deal with, too easily taking offense when questioned about their responses to library reference enquiries. Attempting to submit feedback, suggestions, concerns, questions about the quality of performance for library services is an exercise is diplomacy, feedback rejected, transactions deflected. A better customers services program is needed that gathers feedback, suggestions, concerns and questions at points of library services about performance qualities. Introduce yourself! tag:library20.ning.com,2008-09-19:515108:Comment:83542 2008-09-19T03:22:51.871Z Dianna Roberts Hello from Dianna Roberts. I work for an international consultancy with offices in New Zealand, Australia, the UK, Canada plus an office in Detroit. My main responsibility is to ensure that the information needs of the company are met and this includes management of the worldwide intranet. I am a 2.0 sceptic as I have yet to find any applications that would be of benefit in our situation which is why I have jointed this gang and am also working my way through SLA's 23 Things just in case I see the light! What is Library 2.0 tag:library20.ning.com,2008-09-15:515108:Comment:83479 2008-09-15T11:06:19.303Z Justine Juliet Ssempebwa Dear Julanne, Thank you for this update. Indeed i was green about Web 2.0. Hope it is the same program as Library 2.0. Am going to check it out more and establish how we can use it in our communictions. Is it open source of licenced? Best regards, Justine What is Library 2.0 tag:library20.ning.com,2008-09-15:515108:Comment:83477 2008-09-15T10:35:19.584Z Julanne Hennessy And the main way of figuring out web 2.0 in libraries, of course, is to explore this site! People write about how they use these tools on here! What is Library 2.0 tag:library20.ning.com,2008-09-15:515108:Comment:83473 2008-09-15T09:39:16.593Z Julanne Hennessy My take on Web 2.0, in a nutshell, is programs that enhance communication via the internet or intranet. WisISIS is a library management system if I remember correctly. While there do seem to be some examples of libraries enhancing their LMS with web 2.0 applications they are usually different things. Web 2.0 applications can have a lot of uses in libraries, eg, you might use a blog to communicate to staff or clients, you could use a wiki for collaborative projects because everyone can sign in an contribute data (I have heard of a library that writes research papers for their clients and all the staff contribute parts with one person doing the final write up), a wiki can be used for procedures and policies because all staff involved can sign on and change them as needed, I know of a blog being used for staff to write in when they attend a staff development activity, and they are certainly used instead of newsletter a lot now. They are the only quick examples I can think of. There's much more being done. What is Library 2.0 tag:library20.ning.com,2008-09-12:515108:Topic:83416 2008-09-12T12:08:53.805Z Justine Juliet Ssempebwa Dear Colleagues, I was in IFLA 2008, in Quebec Canada and Library 2.0 was the talk of the day. I would like to know more about Library 2.0 for purposes of information sharing and also to estblish how i can take it on in my information centre. How different is it form other library processing programs like WinISIS Describing Web/Library 2.0 to unwilling staff tag:library20.ning.com,2008-09-12:515108:Comment:83406 2008-09-12T01:15:23.207Z Kerry Oien I agree with your statement that it doesn't change libraries, instead, Web 2.0 enhances libraries.