I’ve been working on proposals to my library on how we could use blogging in our daily operations. It started because I thought we should have a blog on our website for the public to read and comment on. My supervisor started asking me questions that led to me realizing that yes, we could use an internal staff blog as a better way of archiving important informations, cutting down on mass emails, paper memos and word-of-mouth info chains.
But it hadn’t occured to me use blogging as a library OPAC. Until I read Jenny Levine’s ALA Techsource post “Library 2.0 in the Real World.” Jumpin’ Jupiter! What a brilliant idea! An OPAC that allows for folksonomy tags, comments, easy revisions and updates! An OPAC with pages that can be permalinked! An OPAC that easily incorporates other Web 2.0 techniques! Librarians blogging reference questions that make searching the OPAC easier!
My mind is blown. I feel like a halfwit lab assistant watching the mad scientists at work.
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