I can’t agree with you more on your summary of what Web 2.0 is all about to teh users. To quote you … Content isn’t enough -it is the added value that users will pay for. Another similar view from Roy Tennant … It is no longer sufficient to buy content and “mark and park” it. Volume count is irrelevant. We must recast our value proposition.

I also agree with your 2 propositions for Library 2.0 Even though some cast doubts on technological advancement, libraries need to adopt more effective approaches to make our services more relevant to users.

Bertha

Some blogs can host them or there is always YouTube!

Will look forward to watching it when available.

Thanks Bertha for the tip on Library Elf. It appears to be limited to the LMS it deals with, but I have submitted a query on the off chance.

Ann Arbor District Library is highlighted in Week 2’s readings. Jon Blyberg was the one behind Ann Arbor works; worth checking out his blog. There is also two pieces from him in this week’s readingsthis week readings. Ann Arbor uses Innopac; and SirsiDynix does provide RSS.

Library Elf is a Web-based tool for keeping track of what’s due, overdue and ready for pickup. It is independent of any library systems but can talk to various systems. Another way to enhance your communication with your users making use of the data of your library systems.

It would be good for 3CsT2 participants to listen to your podcast. Check out the following article and see if you could find a service to host your file:

Herrington J. (2005) “Hosting your podcasts.” O’Reilly Digital Media, 7th September, 2005. Available at:

Bertha

Second life is a curious creation. I only know one person that frequents and I know someone that designs and sells clothes for avatars. The idea that some people can make money out of it is incredible. I remember reading at the start of the year that there were a few property devlopers that had broke the million linden dollars.

It is one avenue that I don’t think I would happily go down.

You mentioned usability and information overload. While we, as information professionals, are feeling the stress of information overload, I wonder how we can put ourselves in the shoes of our users and help them make sense, as well as make use of the various information tools.

As regards folksonomy, I expected your discussion to be around choosing between controlled vocabulary and folksonomy. Having read all the posts so far, the discussion seems to focus on the inconsistency of folksonomy, esp. in the context of library catalogues. You said … we would not want everyone to have a say in how we index the library catalogue … Do you think letting users tag catalogue items, in other words, adding more metadata, would enrich library catalogues and information retrieval? Do you think folksonomy allows libraries to know more about our users and the domain of their interests from a different angel? As Chris has pointed out … help libraries keep up with the thesaurus. Do you think libraries can make use of those user contributed tags to improve our services and tailor them better for our users’ needs?

Your comments also relate to information literacy, a question for all of you in week 6.

If you’re the only person who has written the blog/wiki/whatever, then you own the copyright, unless you’re doing it on your employers time, or for them, or on what have you. That’s basically the same everywhere, so no change at that point.

If it’s a collaborative effort, then you could say that each person owns the copyright to their particular section or words. However, these are often going to go thru various iterations, so it’s certainly not clear at that point.

I guess if you’re the owner of a wiki/weblog/whatever and you encourage social editing, then you are still the ‘owner’ or publisher, so own the copyright on the whole, unless you state otherwise.