Greetings Everyone –

On behalf of my group members – Adrienne
Walker, Jodi Levin and Mary Poupart – I would like to extend an
invitation to you all to view our group project.

Posing as
library staff at a fictitious public university in northern California,
we created a lifestream of library content on FriendFeed.  Our goal was

Though I have just started experimenting with social search engines and custom searches, I am extremely excited about the possibilities for this application in a library setting.  Not only do social search engines allow you to customize the search parameters in regard to which websites will be searched by the engine, but some of them also allow you to generate an embeddable widget.  These two things make for a powerful tool that is just waiting to be utilized by libraries.

Hi Everyone -

Please check out my LibraryThing page: http://www.librarything.com/profile/phoeft

Also, I have created a vegetarian & vegan recipe search on Rollyo: http://rollyo.com/phoeft/veg_recipe_search/

Just found this podcast from ACRL about Facebook and SNS in academic libraries - thought you all might like to check it out.

The question of whether or not libraries should be establishing a presence on social networking sites is a hard one to answer because there are so many variables that have to be taken into account.  Each library has their own issues in regard to what kind of web presence they already have, what kind of users utilize the library, as well as the staff hours that can be devoted to maintaining a social networking presence (if staff hours are not available then this is all a moot point – social networking demands continual interaction).

Hi Everyone -

Please check out my Facebook & MySpace pages.  

I don't really use MySpace that much anymore, but I am active on Facebook.... 

Media sharing applications like Flickr and Youtube are excellent tools which can be utilized by libraries in a number of ways.  By now we are all familiar with the fairly straightforward examples of media sharing, like creating an online photo album in Flickr, but there are also other ways by which libraries can benefit from media sharing applications.  In particular, I am thinking about how libraries can utilize media sharing as a tool for

Hi Everyone -

Please check out my Flickr account as well as my favorites.  Also, please check out my Youtube account as well as my favorites.

I am a strong advocate for libraries that allow patrons to tag their OPACs.  This does not mean that I want user tags to become the primary method for content classification, or information seeking strategies.  Rather, I think user tags should act as a secondary resource for both of these things.