Beginning yesterday morning, I have yet to be able to link this blog on the "Favorite Blogs" page of the library wiki thingy. The "link" on the edit page is never available. I'm pretty sure that I've followed all of the instructions correctly--but no luck.
In the meantime, I've gone on to explore some of the web-based tools, and I'm becoming very enthusiastic about trying out some of the applications. I hope to use zohowriter to put something up for the world to read.
I have also been been exploring the 2.0 prize winners. I've bookmarked biblio.com, which looks like an excellent book finding tool. I've also bookmarked a mashup called Boxxet and will explore that for interesting lists when I have the opportunity. Having bookmarked all these things for later reference, I am beginning to rethink my decision not to sign-up for del.icio.us--so I've bookmarked that as well, just in case...
UPDATE: 8/28/07
I have just now gone back to the Wikipedia article on Library 2.0 and read through several of the "discussions" for which links are provided. Speaking primarily as a library client, rather than as a librarian (since I'm really not a librarian at this point), I find the following quote to be noting the most interesting and potentially useful aspect of 2.0--whether in the library, or any other venue in which information of any kind is being sought by users of the internet:
"With the exception of inter-library-loan programs, very little inter-library cooperation has existed. L2 is going to require that libraries pool their resources in order to achieve their goals. This is not a new concept, but I think it’ll probably be vital to the enrichment of our systems and programs. Take for example the type of development collaboration that is starting to take place between developers at different organizations. We’re going to have to find a way to harness the “peer-to-peer” abstraction in ways that can benefit all of us. Individually, we can’t compete with giants like Google (nor would we want to). But collectively, we have the resources and societal placement to provide vital services that extend beyond our local communities. We have the opportunity to make a global impact." [http://www.blyberg.net/2006/01/09/11-reasons-why-library-20-exists-and-matters/]
Like everybody else, I use google all the time, whether to support an argument (where one might have referred to the "World Almanac" in the past), or to seek information about current events, etc. It seems clear to me that scholars, researchers, students, and, of course, librarians, could all profit from a more focused, google-like, network which would pool the kind of information which individual libraries catalog and diseminate to their clients. I don't know enough about it to list specific items here, but I am convinced generally, that the benefits will be great.
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