The “Library 2.0″ tag appears in this month’s Technically Speaking column by Andrew Pace, and I was struck by the interpretation he promotes of “Library 2.0″ as being solely defined by advances in technology. I won’t try to summarize Walt Crawford’s lengthy and largely critical review of the Library 2.0 discussion, but I will note [...]

Many of us who teach in libraries feel underprepared. Some of us never had a course in library school on how to do it. Some of us are so old there wasn’t a course on the books when we got our degrees. (I’m not naming names.) But hey, we take life-long learning seriously. And luckily, [...]

A previous post about “Social Bookmarking and Tagging at Academic Libraries” pointed ACRLog readers to “Penn Tags“, a social bookmarking community created by the librarians at the University of Pennsylvania for their user community. Michael Winkler, the Penn Library System’s web guru and systems programmer extraordinaire, left a new comment on that post. Realizing that [...]