LIS 9763

Welcome to the final week of LIS 9763! I know you are all busy working on your final projects, so we’ll keep things fairly light this week:

Welcome to week 13! We have just 2 weeks of class left -- I can't believe how fast this term has gone! Last week, you all inspired me with your insightful and thoughtful posts on marketing and evaluation. This week, we're moving into looking at and thinking about what libraries can & have learned from web 2.0.

With week 12, we have "officially" finished looking at the actual tools of web 2.0, and we're moving on to reading/thinking about and discussing some of the issues around implementing these tools in libraries and information organizations. Many of you have already unearthed some of these issues over the past 11 weeks and discussed them in your blog posts. This week, I'd like you to take a step back and think about how you might market new 2.0 services and evaluate their effectiveness in an information organization.

First off, sorry for the late post this weekend. I'm still in Memphis at that conference I mentioned and the wifi situation has been dismal! Apologies.
 

Hi everyone -- just wanted to let you know that I'll be away at a conference from Thursday, March 19 to Monday, March 23. I'm not sure what sort of wifi/wired access I'll have, though I do hope to get online at least once a day. If you need anything, feel free to send me a message and I'll try my best to get back to you ASAP.

Welcome to week 10 where we turn our attention to gaming & virtual worlds. Digital gaming & virtual worlds are currently having a substantial impact on education and libraries, so our goal for

This week we're moving on to online social networks, where we will focus our attention on the ways in which libraries can use social networking tools for communication and outreach (and if they even should!). You can find all the readings, case studies, and activities for the week right here.
 
This week's reminders:

Just a quick note to let everyone know that I've marked all final project proposals. Check your google docs and you should see comments and a mark at the end of the proposal you shared with me.
 
Thank you all for the work you put into your proposals -- you're all full of great ideas! I'm already looking forward to your prototypes and papers!
 
If you've got any questions, feel free to leave a comment or ping me.

On to week 8! This week we're taking a closer look at folksonomies, which builds directly on last week's conversations around Social Bookmarking & Tagging. This week we look at the advantages and limitations of folksonomies & distributed classification, paying particular attention to how these trends impact libraries and library services (such as OPACs). All content for this week is right here.
Here are a couple of reminders for this week: