MLibrary2.0 - Kristin Antelman & Jessamyn West
Kristin Antelman, from NCSU spoke about the next generation catalog. Again, we have to help patrons find what they didn’t realize they needed. Many of the OPAC’s she talked about are also in this del.icio.us list.
Jessamyn West, from librarian.net spoke more generally 2.0 technology. Slides and a great list of links from her presentation are on her website. Library2.0 isn’t about what you have, its about how you use it. And having the tools, experimenting with technology will only be successful if everyone is on board and willing to fail. Accommodating the needs of the patrons and saving them time also means that we will need to spend more time. But we have to make it easy - and there are many ways to do that… besides making things generally easy to use, we have to go where the users are. ALL college kids are on facebook. And if all of our patrons are on facebook, we should be too.
