Week 6

Tagging

Wow, Delicious.com is great! So often you forget which search terms you used to find something on Google - and I have on occasion not been able to find some obscure sites again - so this is great - once bookmarked, you can access it anywhere. Tagging also helps you to easily separate social from work related sites. I've registered and am converted!!

Technorati

A keyword search for the phrase "Learning 2.0" resulted in 436 hits A tag search resulted in 640 hits, however a tag search for the phrase search for "learning 2.0" resulted in only 176 hits. Web 2.0 under the directory listings bring up a different set of results again.

Moral of the story - there is a lot out there and you will need to be a bit more specific with your search criteria when you're looking for a particular blog or a blog on a particular subject. I like blogger Central with rising blogs of the day. There were 8,038 posts tagged "library" Wonder if we could convince them to add "libraries" as a directory heading??

On Library 2.0

The article on "Icebergs" and "Into a new world of librarianship" really inspired me. It made me excited about the future of libraries - the way I felt as a student when I was doing my postgraduate library studies. It's supporting my drive to get rid of our "just in case collection" but have also made me rethink user education. We should not need to have to provide extensive training in library resources. If everything else informative out there is so easy to use - why will people use complicated library databases? Of course they will not!

I'm making these two articles compulsory reading for all staff - they provide some useful guidelines:

Librarians 2.0 plans for their users - Librarian 2.0 embraces Web 2.0 tools - Librarian 2.0 controls technolust - Librarian 2.0 makes good, yet fast decisions - Librarian 2.0 is a trendspotter - Librarian 2.0 gets content