Co-op - Custom Search Engine. My Top-ten Library 2.0 “No-brainers” for Public Libraries « The Other Librarian. This is fairly straight-forward post. I was thinking about Library/Web 2.0 applications, hearing about projects that seemed to some to be a bit dubious or misguided and occassionally finding people being a bit dismissive in general about Web/Library 2.0. I have sympathy with some of the Web/Library 2.0 skepticism. Not everyone has the resources, inclination or knowledge-base to develop high-powered services on Second Life or to design library based mash-ups and the like.
So, I thought I’d distill library 2.0 into 10 projects that I say are pretty much “no-brainers.” Low riskLow costLow effortSure to provide added benefit to a good number of userspretty much just common sense service enhancements ANDnot likely to ruffle [needlessly] many technophobe feathers In my view, if you do these 10 things (or some reasonable facimile) you have satisficed the Library 2.0 moniker sufficiently to say you are “L2.” Here they are: 1. Why is it L2? Why would my users want it? 2. Why is it L2? 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. The Technology Place for Nonprofits.
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