Summary

Okay so this has been a long haul but I think 2.0 was great and I learned some pretty cool stuff. I had been somewhat familiar with many of the 2.0 apps we studied but I found some interesting caveats which I will continue to use such as the flickr mashups and third party sites, the online image generator and developing and contributing to wikis. I feel that this is a great training resource and as more and more information is transferred and maintained electronically, it is important for us library employees to be familiar with these types of programs and applications.

Overdrive

I cant log in to overdrive because my pin is not working at the moment but I downloaded the Console and went through the tutorial.
Overdrive is a great resource that not many people are aware of. It is good to see patrons can download to itunes now as well.

Podcasts

I haven't really gotten into too much with podcasting but I have listened to a couple through searches in ITunes. I looked at the other sites JPL had listed and Odeo and Podcast Pickle were both easy to use.
I added an RSS feed to my bloglines account.

Lisa Hannigan

zoho writer

Zoho is a great resource for librarians to have up their sleeves! I wish I would have known about this when I worked at Highlands and got several resume questions a day. Like many have said here, it is difficult to explain setting up an email account as well as helping someone format a resume on a busy day. With zoho, a user may not need that email address just yet.

Also, word has a resume template but I found the templates on zoho easier to find and use.

Wikis

I love wikis and they are great tools to gain perspective and ideas from people world wide. It also gives people a chance to share information with people on specific subject matter.

I liked the Book Review and ALA New Orleans Event wiki's posted on the JPL blogspot. As librarians, book review wikis are especially helpful in that it saves time when looking up a specific book review. The wikis allow the reader to gain a conscise version of those hundred or so reviews that pop up.

Also, with events such as ALA its cool that wikis are available for people who are not directly in contact with the ALA so they can arrange travel, schedules, ect..

Basically wiki's are super helpful in my opinion.

web 2.0, library 2.0 and the future of libraries

I feel Rick Anderson makes a good projection in his article "Away From the Iceberg" where he states "If the profession is a boat, then I think we’re all rowing pretty heroically. But I’m not sure we’re paying enough attention to the potential disasters that lie in our current path". Personally I see this from time to time here at JPL in regards to our new developments in say, Overdrive or Database usage. These resources are great but sometimes I find they are intimidating to patrons. I feel with time, though, we can create new ways to teach access to these things.
Micheal Stephens article discusses the importance of making developments in libraries user-centered. This can be done, he says through open forums, ect..
This type of dialogue with the community can be achieved through more advertisement of advisory committees and communication with patrons.
I was at Magnet Mania a few weeks ago and have not done much high volume outreach. I was surprised to find that very few people were aware of Ride to Read and Overdrive but were very interested. Whenever it is possible, it's always good to mention these programs because they are pretty cool.