Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Social networking sites

At first I thought it was kind of silly for libraries to post to these sites. For as long as I can remember the young have been "creating" trends, and therefore culture (or something like that) and the old have been thinking the young to be silly. That makes it obvious that I am not only not one of the young anymore, but I'm going to have to stay on my toes not to turn into one of the old (I hope it's not already too late).
Most people think of patrons as being customers of the library. I would like to suggest that a patron is any citizen, and we need to be where the patrons are (within reason of course). There are patrons using these social sites quite regularly; that's where they are; we SHOULD be there for them. I don't know if I will use these sites after I've finished with 2.0, but just because it's not my scene doesn't mean the library shouldn't be there for people who dig it.

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