academic libraries

I finally get a topic that I actually feel like I know the material for beforehand (in spite of my belief at the beginning of the term I had lots of Web 2.0 experience). :)

The debates for this week's readings were really interesting to me, not only because I'm a social networking site fanatic, but also because I generally consider myself a proponent of freedom of access and speech.

I liked the Georgia State subject area blogs (although on first glance it's difficult to see how they organized it), and I was thinking of the potential of libraries using blogs to evaluate their materials. I can see that this idea might sound disastrous because it might solicit negative feedback that would harm the reputation of the library.

My first thoughts upon starting these readings (after being made dizzy by all of the software mentioned in Roush's article) have to do with how to smoothly incorporate social software into library services. At the academic library where I did my co-op a lot of students were still at the “where do you keep the books?” stage well into the second term.