I do see a place for libraries in Second Life, to serve the people that use SL. These libraries would be special types, as opposed to public libraries. Right now, SL is popular with gamers and adults who enjoy leading alternative lives. So, how about a library that is specifically targeted at them? I don't see any library setting up a branch in SL unless they have a very specific niche that would also appeal to SL users. I can see SL a very appealing prospect for librarians who also like living second lives.

Better late than never. I used Google's custom search tool to create a single search engine for 28 consumer review sites for products and services, including some listed in the Librarian's Internet Index.

Consumer Reviews of Products & Services

This engine does not cover automobile review sites.

I had always wondered why no one created one before. : ) 

Amy

Here's my LibraryThing account: http://www.librarything.com/home/bookamy

It contains a very small percentage of books I have. As much as I love the concept of LibraryThing, I'm not really into cataloguing and use the service only occasionally, usually to find recommended books to check out. Instead, on Twitter I follow Tim Spalding (twitter.com/librarythingtim) who is the founder of LibraryThink.com. Tim usually has very interesting things to say about the book industry in general.

For those of you thinking how to get your organization started on social media, in this case Twitter, this document is one template for developing a strategy. It's clear, concise and through. Here's a description: 

Right now, the only social networking site profile I have that is public is my Linkedin account. I just signed up with Ning.

What are some interesting ways you could envision your organization using media sharing?

I believe what University of Pennsylvania Libraries did with their Penn Tags will take off and adopted not only in academics but also in public and special libraries. To lessen their dependence on Delicious - a third party service, UP was smart not only to put in place a delicious-like system on their own hosts, but also to look at open source systems to host the service, to make the entire service more efficient for their users and cost effective in the long run for the organization.

I've had this account for a while, so you will find many bookmarks.

http://delicious.com/booksheaf

Bookmarks collected for classes I took so far are listed under the LIBR number (without the "LIBR"). Those for this class, 246, is now listed under

http://delicious.com/booksheaf/LIBR246-11

(It was formerly tagged "246" but for this class, I replaced it with LIBR246-11 new one so you can follow it. Delicious' bulk edit features are very handy for this.)

What types of resources would you suggest creating utilizing a wiki as opposed to a blog? (Be specific).

A wiki is best if you want to develop a central repository for information and invite users to contribute to it or to store relatively static and niche information.

Here are two wikis I use today: