# 15 LIBRARY 2.0

Some of the information that I read regarding Library 2.0 was complicated to be, because I am not a librarian. I do not "research" on a daily basis as the trained librarians do. However, I did see some tie-ins to earlier "things" of the 23 things. Regarding bibliographic trends today and in the future, one article mentioned the inevitable duplication of records that would confuse and waste the time of both our patrons and the reference librarians. The article went on to mention the use of RSS feeds, that would allow users to "customize, package, and subscribe" to the content they are most interested in, and send it to their "prefered working place. Not necessarily limited to an actual visit to the library. Getting data from multiple institutions without a metodata creation to govern the overlap, would be much less efficient.
Another article, and one more basic and easier for me to understand, mentioned the obvious fact that we are forced to rely on the user's education. Since we could not possibly teach research skills to everyone who comes into the library, or accesses the library's data base, having a service available that uses the input of not only the library employees, but allows the patrons to use open forums and ask questions, along with giving their input into the planning for future services. The can also, speak to the userablity of the current services.

# 13 TAGGING

Tagging proved to be both interesting and somewhat overwhelming. I went to various sites and found that people have "tags" for a very broad number of topics, some of interest to me, but most not. Examples of ones I looked at were: Precious Moments, religions of the world, avitars, and iHCPL a Learning Experience. Whenever, I looked further, I found them to be very complex and the language used quite foreign to me and my limited profeciency with computer ese. The explanations were most likely easy to understand for someone who uses computers and their search possibilities on a daily basis. (I'm not able to do this as I am in circulation and not the reference desk.) However, I think if I were to need to research a given topic, or someone came to the library to search, having the capability of using the time and effort of someone before me who gathered links (tags) to a particular subject would be a godsend. They potentially could have thought and discovered related areas, that I may not have imagined.

# 12 Library Elf

Whoops! Looks like I wasn't doing as good a job as I thought. It appears I linked twice.

iHCPL a Learning Experience: Week 5: #12 The "Library" Elf will remind you!

iHCPL a Learning Experience: Week 5: #12 The "Library" Elf will remind you!

It was easy to establish an account in Library Elf. It remains to be seen if it works well.

# 11 LIBRARYTHING

http://www.librarything.com/

After I went to LIBRARYTHING, and opened an account, I then added 6 books that I have enjoyed reading in the recent past and 1 book that I am currently reading. It was very easy to add the books individually, but I wanted to add multiple books from a given author at the same time. I did not see a way to do that. So I had to type the author's name for each of their books that I wanted to add individually. This took alot more time.

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No. 9 FEEDS

Going to the feed choices that were listed was informative. Obviously, whenever you sign up for the ones listed, they are rather generic and all inclusive. An example would be: I have no interest in cats, but when signing up for the one feed "animal lover", they had cats and dogs articles checked. I would rather be able to limit the scope of my news feeds. Next I went to Feedster and just asked for Graves Disease, since a recent disagnosis makes this of interest. There were a few items of interest.

This exercise was interesting, but somewhat confusing. The various choices were not very hard to get into, but not all of them were as easy as others. I pretty much stayed with Feedster for
the time I spent there. But, I guess the various news feeds would be informative to patrons wanting the latest information regarding a variety of subjects.

# 8 RSS

I've subscribed to several news feeds, that appealed to me personally and professionally. Some of the catagories were very general and therefore will have much that will not necessarally be of interest to me. Example: Animal lover, suscribed me to sites of Dogs and Cats. However, I have no personal interest in cats, yet, will love to hear about any stories with dogs in them.

On that will be appropriate to me in my job, but not necessarily to me personally, was Book Lover. I read voraciously (spelling?), but in a limited type of literature. However, in the library, I handle all types of media. I am often asked questions regarding those that I personally would not read, yet professionally, must be objective and informative.

7 photo editing

Trip planner will come in handy whenever I plan my next vacation. There are many sites that I would like to visit, but haven't the time to drive around looking for the areas, or for reading up on the travel booklets available. Also, this would be a good site to direct patrons to, whenever they come in looking for the various travel books. They might need more information than can be found in the hard copies, or might need some country/location that we do not have readily available in hard copy.