Comments on: Online Community and Libraries, Parts III & IV http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/09/11/online-community-and-libraries-parts-iii-iv/ Writings and ruminations about emerging technologies, Web 2.0, information architecture and libraries. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:33:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Lawrence Liu's Report from the Inside http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/09/11/online-community-and-libraries-parts-iii-iv/#comment-391 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 06:11:10 +0100 http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/09/11/online-community-and-libraries-parts-iii-iv/#comment-391 <strong>Insightful and thought provoking commentary about online communities</strong> Some people have told me that I have a tendency to talk about online communities and social networking Insightful and thought provoking commentary about online communities

Some people have told me that I have a tendency to talk about online communities and social networking

]]> by: Joshua http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/09/11/online-community-and-libraries-parts-iii-iv/#comment-387 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:39:26 +0100 http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/09/11/online-community-and-libraries-parts-iii-iv/#comment-387 Hey Ellyssa, Really amazing article! It was great meeting you at the meetup yesterday, thanks for all the information about working in libraries and the fascinating new perspectives to consider about the role of libraries in the internet age. I hadn't even known about web 2.0! This is really neat. I will come back and read the rest of this artcile when I have time. Meantime I'm wondering what implication this has for poets, people attempting to find their way through the jungle of uninspired poetry and things that just don't match one's personal tastes and brain style to the things that do...just a random thought. Thanks again. BEst, Joshua Hey Ellyssa,
Really amazing article! It was great meeting you at the meetup yesterday, thanks for all the information about working in libraries and the fascinating new perspectives to consider about the role of libraries in the internet age. I hadn’t even known about web 2.0! This is really neat. I will come back and read the rest of this artcile when I have time. Meantime I’m wondering what implication this has for poets, people attempting to find their way through the jungle of uninspired poetry and things that just don’t match one’s personal tastes and brain style to the things that do…just a random thought.
Thanks again.
BEst,
Joshua

]]> by: Mark Robertson http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/09/11/online-community-and-libraries-parts-iii-iv/#comment-383 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 02:19:31 +0100 http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/09/11/online-community-and-libraries-parts-iii-iv/#comment-383 I welcome your suggestions about how we might "help users sift through the mess" of content in new 2.0 media like blogs. Much of the literature on the library's role in 2.0 fails to really distinguish two very different kinds of involvement: 1) the use of 2.0 tools by the library to facilitate library functions (eg. using blogs or wikis to communicate with our students about the library, or using Flickr for promotion), and 2) the involvement of librarians in helping our users access content being produced by 2.0 tools (eg. curating blog content, creating and organizing lists of subject specific RSS feeds). The first is about using 2.0 tools in operating libraries and their services; the second is about dealing with content. Your ideas about creating RSS lists and using OPML are interesting because it seems to me that so few people are really thinking about our role in dealing with new kinds of 2.0 content. We should also be looking at models of content curating and what our involvement in that should be. See for instance the exemplary <a href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/" title="Global Voice Online" rel="nofollow"> project. </a> I welcome your suggestions about how we might “help users sift through the mess” of content in new 2.0 media like blogs.

Much of the literature on the library’s role in 2.0 fails to really distinguish two very different kinds of involvement: 1) the use of 2.0 tools by the library to facilitate library functions (eg. using blogs or wikis to communicate with our students about the library, or using Flickr for promotion), and 2) the involvement of librarians in helping our users access content being produced by 2.0 tools (eg. curating blog content, creating and organizing lists of subject specific RSS feeds).

The first is about using 2.0 tools in operating libraries and their services; the second is about dealing with content.

Your ideas about creating RSS lists and using OPML are interesting because it seems to me that so few people are really thinking about our role in dealing with new kinds of 2.0 content.

We should also be looking at models of content curating and what our involvement in that should be. See for instance the exemplary project.

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