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No.7
ISSN: 1559-0011
September 2007

Contents

President's Report

Libraries and social networking

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Advocacy: Social networking encourages teen library usage

Tips and Tricks: A del.icio.us directory

Labs: It's cloudy in research but with little chance of rain

A WorldCat community

Research: Exploring the potential of registries

By the Numbers


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Selected quotes from, Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World

Please describe the top two most interesting activities that could be included in a library’s social networking/community site.

  • “Set up interest groups such as nature study, gardening, health etc., and help people find and share the best resources that support each activity.”
    72-year-old from the U.S.

  • “History of the town {city} and its people.”
    57-year-old from Canada

  • “Mini-conférences sur des thêmes pouvant créer des liens entre les citoyens et le livre mais aussi entre les citoyens eux-mêmes.” (Mini meetings themes that could create links between the citizens book, but also between the citizens themselves.)
    48-year-old from France

  • “Informationsseite über allgemeine, das Zusammenleben betreffende Fragen” (Information site about general, community-oriented questions.)
    47-year-old from Germany

  • 検索したい事柄に関する情報提供の場  (A place to put out information related to things that you want to search on.)
    33-year-old from Japan

  • “I would like to share book reviews. I hate reading a book that I thought would be great and finding it a dull read. Especially from an author that I like.” 54-year-old from the UK

  • 個人の創作した文章などの閲覧  (Looking at personally created writings and so on.)
    29-year-old from Japan

  • “A club to read and discuss new books.”
    72-year-old from the UK

  • “Recherche et créativité” (Research and creativity.)
    53-year-old from France

  • “Maybe a role play of a certain scene in a given book.”
    16-year-old from the US

  • “Get book clubs started and organized.”
    67-year-old from Canada

  • “Kennenlernen anderer Bibliothekbenutzer mit gleichen Interessen” (Meeting other library users with similar interests.)
    24-year-old from Germany


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