2.0 and power

http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/09/10/whats-new-about-library-20-shift-in-power/

There have never been so many alteratives to libraries as information resources – from government documents to encyclopedic entries to opinions of other people – all online. When users reach for an information source, the convenience of these services often outweighs the quality of our library sources.

User choice is important but even more important to me is providing libraries and librarians with more resources. Our job is to understand enough about these resources to provide the user with competent guidance when they are faced with choices. It comes down to access…it doesn’t do any good to provide portals to unlimited information if there is no way to access it meaningfully. (see David Weinburger Everything is Miscellaneous)

Challenge: To use new web tools to increase the convenience of access to our information resources.

TGIF

I didn’t think I was going to make it to the end of the week. I sent my (new) student up to the stacks to retrieve call slips so I could finish reading LIS:768 blog posts and do a quick post here. This semester, I’m afraid, is going to be all about training (again).  Training is like housework, never gets done.  I am putting my training manual as a document on the web (somehow…I guess I’m not supposed to make it generally available…I need to talk to the IT guy).  I have also volunteered to help with the student training wiki that was started last year and then dropped due to lack of time.  B.W. was working on it.