Exploring Ideas from Here Comes Everybody - Part 3: Conversations and Collection
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Every webpage is a latent community. Each page collects the attention of people interested in its contents, and those people might well be interested in conversing with one another, too. p. 133
Many library users want to have conversations about collections. Until very recently the outlet for these conversations was only available on non-library web sites. Part of what held libraries back from enabling this was technology but a bit part was attitude. Were librarians ready to embrace and enable contributions by our users. Could we trust them?
Related Resources:
- Why bother: the impact of social OPACs - John Blyberg
- flickr game: name that movie, and social OPACs - Aaron Schmidt, walking paper
- How OPACs Suck, Part 1: Relevance Rank (Or the Lack of It)
- How OPACs Suck, Part 2: The Checklist of Shame
- How OPACs Suck, Part 3: The Big Picture
Exploring Ideas from Here Comes Everybody
- Part 1: Libraries in an Age of Abundance
- Part 2: From Scribes and Scrolls to Librarians and Libraries
- Part 3: Conversations and Collections
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