I puttered around on the Charlotte Mecklenburg County Library site and was very interested to see that they are recruiting Teens to help them develop Teen Services in Second Life. Very 2.0.
We have created an emerging technologies committee and they are going to be looking around Second Life, to see what we might be able to do or if any of our patrons might be interested in finding the Orange County Public Library on their travels through the virtual world.
I've visited the Ann Arbor Public Library before - we are starting the re-design of our website, so we are looking at how we can create an effective e-Library and AAPL always comes up as a good example. I really like the immediacy of their site - things are quickly and easily posted, and library patrons get to contribute to the site. They are definitely engaging their public in conversations about information and services.
Denver PL always has something interesting to offer - I really like the idea of Podcasts on a site. We could do so much with these - there could be short research guides, training sessions, homework assistance, all kinds of things seem ripe for podcasting. And I think podcasting would help us internally as well - We do a lot of staff training and are starting to look at how we can provide a blend of training options.
I kind of think it all boils down to bringing the services to our public - no matter where they are. So to do that effectively we have to look at everything - our traditional services and all the new ways of providing service in our wired world.
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It would be fun, Stephanie, to have a branch podcast challenge.
I didn't know you worked with museums, too.
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