Today was the first day of Computers in Libraries 2007 conference. A person from OCLC gave the best and worst presentation: she had a lot of hard numbers on internet usage and attitudes for the U.S. and some other countries (the report is due soon) but her fonts were hard to read from the front of a very large room. Some other things I picked up are:
- Users want to interact with the internet: allow them to comment, rate, tag, edit, or do something so they feel ownership and a part of a human community of your library. PLAN before you do web/library 2.0. Most social software is easy to setup, but it needs a lot of planning before you start so you know where you are going with it and how it supports your libraries mission.
- Don’t try to do or use every web 2.0 services, just a few which meet your personal/professional needs or the needs of your users.
- When you advertise it, don’t says “we have a blog” but rather say “we have a new way for you to keep up with the new databases, books, etc.”
- Librarians read and use the internet much more than the general public.
That’s all for tonight.
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