photo sharing

Forgive me for not keeping up with you all. I have been commenting on a number of the blogs, so I have been following.

I really like what LC did with Flickr. I am wondering if it would be worthwhile to do something with special collections on Flickr. Not sure if the cost would outweigh the benefit. Perhaps if we had a special collections intern. One thing for sure, we have some great stuff in our collection and it would be great to let people know about it. If we start using social networking more actively, Flickr would be a great tool as well.

RSS

We are already using it to update the library homepage. I saw a speaker at ACRL who updates some of there pages with a micro-blog -ie. Twitter. RSS is very power. I think we will find many creative uses for it in our new subject guides. I use a custom RSS feed from PsycInfo that notifies me when articles on compassion are published. I also have a custom RSS feed from Twitter that notifies me when someone Tweets about the Pollak Library. I should really get a life.

thoughts on two.zero

I like the re-purposing/re-using aspect of 2.0. I think/hope we will see a great deal of that coming out of systems. The model for the new subject guides looks really promising in terms of re-purposing and re-using. But also collaboration because we will all be able to create and share items for the guides and other areas of the website as well. We already have some experience with collaborative folksonomy tagging on the databases a-z prototype. In other words, we are already doing or will be doing many of the these things. I guess the next step will be to invite more user interaction with some of these systems.