The North Wing

For an interesting post on this topic of social networking tools and their use in libraries, see Paula Warnken’s blog on November 14th from which this quote is excerpted:

“What do those findings mean for those of us who invest heavily in online library resources?  How do we reach our students who feel self-sufficient in their online research skills and often circumvent library resources? They don’t necessarily use the library Web pages that we often design as a result of our own usability studies. There are no clear answers as we traverse the online information world and explore the implications and opportunities of Library 2.0. Librarians must be willing to question current practices and be open to new and different service venues, both real and virtual. We must all accept and embrace change. As OCLC’s report concludes, “The new Web is a very different thing. Libraries need to be very different, too.””