I had a quick look at NING - social networking...and located Palmerston North city library on this site. I have requested to join this group to see how it works. Funny I found several hundred libary groups within NING each set up for different reasons. Palmerston North was set up for learning 2.0 technologies. Will keep you keep informed.(if they accept me). Oh the pressure.
Like us, here at UCOL, The PNCC web filtering has blocked some of the WEB 2.0 technologies which need to be used. Fortunately we have been able to get most of ours unblocked (for periods of time) Is this censorship by IT...or by libraries. What about User education? Customer Service? Limitation to resources and knowledge?
Time for some serious rethinking on how Libraries can use these resouces and provide access to, and learning support, for our patrons. Will Libraries still be the gateway to knowledge resources and librarians the gatekeepers.
We need to educate the powers that be......in learning insitutions, public libraries and beyond to the value resources that are being SHARED by social networking tools.
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