Thing #4

RPL Young Adults, originally uploaded by jayjager.

Thing # 3

Palinet's Feed Me: A gentle introduction to Internet feeds is pretty informative. It really helped me to ease into RSS feeds. I have Firefox and I never really noticed the live feed icon before. Using Bloglines was very easy. I quickly found quite a few blogs that I want to follow. The hard part will be finding time to read them. Well at least now I can find the blogs I was looking for. I think Bloglines will make it easier for me to review all the blogs I follow by keeping my access in one place.

Thing # 2

I think that the term Library 2.0 should be used to describe online interactive sharing of ideas and audio visual information. Using Library 2.0 to describe any act by a librarian that meets the needs of the patron seems too broad. Hopefully we have always strived to find new ways to meet the needs of our patrons. Emulating Barnes and Noble by adding a coffee shop, a wireless network, and better book displays in the library is good customer service, but is hardly revolutionary. While I applaud the recent steps more libraries have taken to increase their popularity I think it's just another step down the road of patron access that began as libraries became available to everyone not just the wealthy or the highly educated.