Wikis

I like the idea of letting our customers add their own comments to the OPAC. You could do a review with ratings for any book, like Amazon, or just associate your name with a book. This could let you see if you have read a title before, find someone who reads books that you like THAT WE OWN, and put holds on these books. We could add tags to books and let our customers search in this manner, which would help when people are confused by the library of congress subject heading - like a keyword search, but using words that make sense to YOU. I would love to have our library give this a try.

Library 2.0

I don't yet know what I think of Library 2.0. I like the idea of receiving as much information from our customers as possible and being sensitive to change. It sounds to me like the library would like to become more active in the social networking idea. I read "The Central Problem of Library 2.0: Privacy" by Rory Litwin and found that I agreed with the following statement:

"Their decisions (Millennials) concerning privacy on blogs and social networking websites are motivated largely by an interest in being seen, noticed, admired, and potentially in gaining a degree of fame within their milieu. While this is a motivation that’s strongly present in any adolescent, an opposite, limiting motivation to protect oneself by keeping personal information private is a motivation that, by contrast, may have to be learned from painful experience. This should tell us that the Millennials may not have reached the time in their lives when they will have learned to place a high value on their privacy."

I have learned to value my privacy. I'm not thrilled about sharing my ideas on blogs, letting others view my library thing or sharing my sites from My Delicious. This probably makes me anti-social, but I have enough trouble taking care of family, friends children and a full-time career to want to share my thoughts with anyone but those in my close circle.

I really want to see specifics about Library 2.0. What are people doing that is considered 2.0? Show me some examples.