Thing 15

Library 2.0 is indeed mind-boggling. In the 40 year range that I have been a librarian, there have been many major changes in libraries. I don't want to think of a time when the library will not contain actual books. To serve the public, we need to keep up with technology but not leave significant numbers of our public lost in the shuffle. Our patrons range from far more advanced than us, to people who can't even use the copy machine themselves. We need to serve a broad range of interests and abilities.
One small practical suggestion that I saw on the future of libraies was to have a link from our library web site to "check nearby libraries" Since we have a number of patrons who also visit Trumbull Co. and other libraries, this could be a useful feature.

Thing 14

Went into Technorati and tried "black lagoon" and got 8,257 hits: tried "librarian from the black lagoon' and got 39 blog posts, mainly recommending the book. By comparison Google had 212,000 hits for "librarian from the black lagoon" but I didn't see any blogs (I did not check every hit!) Very interesting!

I looked over #13 again and was able to hear the tutorial. Del.icio.us seems be be for people with a lot of time and a lot of interest in what everybody else reads, thinks and talks about.