Via the supernumerarypa blog I just found a book called
Social Software for Libraries by Meredith Farkas.
From the reviews it looks like a good nuts and bolts introduction to Web 2.0 tools that have a current place in Libraries. I believe Connotea is given a mention.
Of course being in a book format has advantages and disadvantages, and one of the people providing a review on Amazon sums it up nicely:
“If I had a criticism, it would only be “book versus web”, as the web is a river and a book is an island. Printing it ‘fixes’ it in time, and the highly dynamic web will outrun the content of this book in a few years, maybe sooner. Meantime, its succint, direct and practical nature recommend it as a map out of the bewildering tangle of what’s out there. Now is the time to buy it”
I’ve been following Meredith’s blog Information wants to be free for about three years—since before I became a blogger myself, actually (ancient history!). It’s been fascinating, although I am not a library professional, I’ve learned a lot, for example, in my early days of reading it, a lot about wiki technology.
At the moment she is highlighting a “comment challenge” – bloggers apparently need to do more commenting to be “good blogging citizens”.
Hi Maxine, thanks,
I’ve just signed up to Meredith’s blog now. I’ve been thinking a lot recently about perspectives on technology. I’m pretty immersed and sometimes like the proverbial fish I lose sense of the water, take so much for granted, but it looks like, from reading a bit about Meredith’s ‘comment challenge’ that her blog is a great advertisement for people to get their feet wet in the blogosphere.