…well, not LINT…but the blogging software that runs it, Wordpress.
Casey Bisson, from Plymouth State Universty Library, has just received the Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration for his WPOpac, which uses Wordpress software to run the OPAC. You can see it in action here. Search to find your item, which displays as a post on [...]

News arising - forwarded from the RMIT students mailing list (and also from the ALIA Vic list) I have received the following information about a Victorian public libraries initiative which I thought should be posted here, where all the 2.0 crowd tend to gather.
Dear colleagues
What’s the best part of a conference? Most people agree it’s [...]

The American Library Association has contracted the Information Institute of Syracuse to develop a white paper about recent developments in Web-based innovations and their relationship to, and potential for use in libraries.
“The brief will put an emphasis on interactive and social web applications such as blogs, social networks, and include a survey of the general “Web [...]

I have mixed feelings about manifestos, but I really like this one from Laura Cohen - check out A Librarian’s 2.0 Manifesto.
(For what it’s worth, her Library 2.0: An Academic’s Perspective is one of my new favourite blogs!)

Only three short days ago the LISZEN search engine was made available. Using the new Google Co-op functionality Garrett Hungerford of the Library Zen blog has created a search engine that covers over 500 blogs in the area of Library and Information Science. Garrett used the list of blogs at the LISWiki to create the [...]

PROBLEM
I’m being a little bit too 2.0 right now.
A hallmark of 2.0-ness is admitting to users when you stuff up. I stuffed up.
I was trying to discreetly change my identity on lint from “Librarian Kathryn” and “Sirexkat” to “Kathryn Greenhill” - with no comment or attention. (Here’s why if you’re interested). When I [...]

A-gnosis = “non-knowledge” or “loss of knowedge”

LIBRARIAN 2.0 AND AGNOSIA
Stephen Abrams, in his article Web 2.0, Library 2.0, and Librarian 2.0: Preparing for the 2.0 World, saw Librarian 2.0 as striving to “Combine e-resources and print formats and is container and format agnostic”.
To me this means that, when asked for information, we:
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