LIBR 246-12: Web 2.0 and Social Networking Tools (Fall 2008)

Ipods and podcast are becoming very important and powerful learning tools in education.  According to this article,  written by Derik DeLong, iTu

I found this post on David Lee King's blog last week and have been holding onto it for this week's topic.  In his post, David talks about the various elements on his library's Facebook page, and what he would like to add. He also goes into what works and what may not be working on his page.  he even asked other library Facebookers what they do with their Facebook page.  This blog post may even help with ideas for this week's exercise :)

This article: Which Wiki is Right for You, offers a decent comparison of different wiki sites and pros and cons of each.  I believe that Meredith talked about many of these in this week's lecture.

Thingology (LibraryThing's idea blog) offers a post about how they allow users to "look at a book and see both the user-created tags as well as the librarian-assigned subject headings."  I think that this is a great way for libraries to use tags in libraries (alongside of the more formal subject headings).  The blog post linked to above offers a good discussion on whether or not using tags and subject headings is successful.  I would love to see even more libraries trying out user-generated taggi

Here is an article about how RSS feeds can be used for and by libraries.  Not only can you get your blogs and news feeds on an RSS aggregator, but you can also see when new DVDs are added, or perhaps just new catalouged items.  Of course your library has to make these feeds available in order for this to work.

Duke library has a number of different RSS feeds taht you can add to your aggregator.