[Web4lib] Facebook (& Second Life)

[Brian Gray]

Your money analysis is too over simplified. If the web 2.0 tool is not
directly replacing a current tool or service, it takes someone to design and
maintain. Time is money in libraries when staff numbers are already
streamlined.

Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com
bcg8 at case.edu


On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Robert Balliot <rballiot at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Library 2.0 technologies only require *money* where skills are lacking
> to implement them or you are buying additional services  - server
> space, freedom from ads, land in SL, or special avatar<http://oceanstatelibrarian.com/images/tardis.jpg>costumes.  The same
> thing holds true you have to hire someone to do a library website.
>
> In a purely economic sense 2.0 could require *money* with overtime.
> However, that line item is rare where you have hoards of
> hungry grad students.
>
>
> R. Balliot
> http://oceanstatelibrarian.com
>