If I’ve understood the Step 2 reading correctly, in order to implement Library 2.0 at Jones we should set up a web site where patrons and library staff can upload their vacation pictures which will then be tagged with each vacation spot’s longitude and latitude (alternative longitude and latitude tags must be addable by members of the community) which will be used to
- find the place on google maps
- and be cross referenced to all books that contain information about any spot within a selectable 1…100 mile radius of any of the submitted longitude and latitude coordinates
- discuss the products of Argentina on-line.
We should also let patrons assign their own dewey decimal tags to items in the collection.
August 30, 2007 at 11:49 am
Okay, I agree that a lot of this Web 2.0 stuff is irrelevant to library services (Flicker, Twitter, etc.) Personally, I don’t get it, since I don’t really feel the need to share and broadcast my vacation pics to the world. Seems like a waste of time and energy as well. I have too much stuff to do in the real world!
However, I’ve been mentally relating this Web 2.0 stuff to libraryland in a much more general way, even on a theoretical kind of level. I see the whole idea is one of being more interactive – not having information flow just one way one the web site – from us to them. The new catalog has taken a baby step in this direction – patrons can now rate books with the 1 to 5 star system. It’s still pretty static, but it’s a baby step. But wouldn’t it be neat if patrons could write a review or comment on a book. Or even tag it, and have the tag clouds to supplement the LC subject headings, which can’t and don’t cover everything in a book, especially in fiction. That would be cool, especially when we’re trying to help patrons ID a book, and all they can remember is random details that probably aren’t covered by LC.
August 31, 2007 at 3:49 pm
“But wouldn’t it be neat if patrons could write a review or comment on a book. Or even tag it, and have the tag clouds to supplement the LC subject headings, which can’t and don’t cover everything in a book, especially in fiction. That would be cool, especially when we’re trying to help patrons ID a book, and all they can remember is random details that probably aren’t covered by LC.”
skyelass,
I actually think it would be very neat to try something like this and I would love to see if it really enhanced reference work. I can only speak from personal experience on this sort of thing, and, thing is, I’m pretty sure I don’t pay much attention to Amazon.com’s on-line reviewers. But maybe I’m wrong about that. Maybe I need to pay better attention to how much attention I pay the amateur reviewers.
Seth