Library 2.0

In the section on "Away from Icebergs", I don't agree with the section on the "Just in Case" collection that we should rely on digital collections and learn to let go of books. I know some librarians who really know their collections, and there are just certain books they will not part with because they say they have been able to find answers in print form that were not available digitally. I do believe that there is much that can be accessed online, but can it be relied upon to answer all questions and be there when you go to look for it the next time? One librarian said at least he would have the book if a publisher went out of business.

While the ideas and concepts for making Library 2.0 work internally can be done, there's concern over whether the external factors will work; if online communities can be counted on to provide feedback and direction for input into user's wants and suggestions. This remains to be seen, and is part of the concern called, Radical Trust.

Blog about Technology

I am looking forward to the section on tagging and folksonomies because I have to do a research paper for school about labeling and ethics in the field of information architecture (technology).

I like to read people's personal postings to find out new bits of information about them.

Flickr Mashups

I went into the Trip Planner and found it to be very interesting. Since I had already taken my trip, I wanted to see just how many recommended sites came up that I had actually visited. I was also able to pull up some beautiful pictures of the Grand Canyon and Sedona, Arizona.

One of the areas I am finding challenging is learning how to "save pictures as" and transfer to a folder of all my favorite pictures. I am getting a lot of practice doing this, especially since I have accidentally removed some pictures that I wanted to keep.

I also enjoyed playing around with retrievr because I like colors and I got to see some very beautiful and colorful pictures just by "doodling".

Flickr

Flickr was fun, especially using the tags to find pictures. Also, in Flickr Color Pickr, if you scroll down this site to other fun stuff from Jim, and click on Whitney Music Box, there is music along with the motion graphics. Turn up the sound for some wild and mesmerizing animation!!

Blogline Account & Feeds

This lesson on setting up a blogline account and adding feeds was very challenging. Thanks to my co-worker, Robbie Allen, I am slowly navigating around the site and I found several useful feeds. I enjoyed the Bloglines selection of sites to be the easiest way to search. I also picked the Librarian's Internet Index for school work, plus the ALA TechSource Blog. Sometimes I had trouble copying and pasting the URL into the right section to add to my feeds. Only with time and training by doing, will I get it.