I decided to keep the the Week 13 element of evaluation for this week, since my thoughts on the evaluation of this course, Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and my own use of social software all connected together rather conveniently.

My suggestions for best practices when using Social Software
and Web 2.0 applications in a library setting:

Don’t just do
something because it is “hip” or “cool” to be doing it!

This week, I'm going to look at the more personal reflection aspects of these final weeks, mostly because the majority of my free time is going to finishing the project, and I'd like to do a discussion of social software in libraries and best practices justice.

A library’s existence relies on providing information in various media to its patrons.    New “media sharing” sites such as Flicker and YouTube are simply the latest tools libraries and patrons use to exchange information. Using these tools and the power of the Internet, the library can create online communities that share a love of learning.  

This topic is the one I have become the most familiar with, especially over the past few weeks working on the group Facebook project (which all of you should check out!). Personally, out of the networks discussed in this week's readings, I find Facebook to be the most interesting and also have the most options for incorporation into a library.

Folksonomies

Taxonomies were developed to apply an orderly hierarchal structure to knowledge. They rely on users to search for information, using specific terms, in a pre-determined order.