Further to the last post, Bloglines seems to return an "Internal Error" message rather frequently, but re-clicking the link will sometimes bring up the site. I have many mouth-watering recipes from one of my RSS feeds!
Wikis this time. Enabling the opac as a wiki sounds like a useful idea. Patron reviews can assist with reader advisory services. I suppose someone needs to monitor the entries though, library tasks are changing are they not?
Blogs seem to be of the moment (eg. promoting current events) whereas a wiki is more of a reference tool. Sharing information and ideas globally online is very powerful, and a little overwhelming, until I remember that is what books do too, just not online.
Library tasks are definitely changing - but we've always been an industry that embraces technology ... some of the first computers in councils were in libraries!
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