[Web4lib] OCLC _NextSpace_: Libraries and Social Networking

[Gerry Mckiernan]

***APOLOGIES FOR RECEIPT OF DUPLICATE POSTINGS***
Colleagues/

I've discovered that a Fall issue of _NextSpace_, the OCLC Newsletter,
has an excellent article on "Libraries and Social Networking". 

The piece consists of a Q&A with Nine Notables:

Lori Bell (Alliance Library Systems, Second Life Librarian and Director
of Innovation), Edward Castronova (Indiana University, Associate
Professor of Telecommunications), Paul Jones (ibiblio.org, Director),
Hemanshu Nigam (MySpace, Chief Security Offfice), Kitty Pope (Alliance
Library System, Second Life Librarian and Executive Director), Fred
Stutzman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ph. D. Student),
Stuart L. Weibel, Ph. D. (OCLC, Consulting Research Scientist)

The Questions:

How do you define online social networking? Examples of how it*s
working well and not so well?

What are the impacts, overall, do you think on industry, education and
cultural institutions? 

Specifically, how do you see it affecting libraries/museums? Right now,
and in the future?

How can libraries best work to shape the next wave? Should they? 

Do you see social networking as a serious, long-term cultural and
business phenomenon? 

I have excerpted portions of the Q&A in my _Friends_ blog at 

[ http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/2007/12/blog-post.html ]

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Season's Greetings!

AND

Happy Monday !

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu 

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