Maybe I’m biased, but when I took Brigid Burke’s Automated & Networked Systems class, I gained a hell of a lot of respect for John Blyberg* and the Ann Arbor District Library. Blyberg created the AADL OPAC using open source Drupal. You can read and see a bit more about what Blyberg and an AADL patron were able to do here:
http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/02/02/a-conversation-with-ed-vielmetti-and-john-blyberg-about-superpatrons-and-superlibrarians/
That kind of collaborative back-and-forth between patron and library is manifested in the library’s blogs. AADL has a series of blogs for services (http://www.aadl.org/services/blog) and the community (http://www.aadl.org/services/communityblog).
The AADL’s director also has a blog – http://www.aadl.org/directorsblog - where Josie is most definitely interacting with the community – check the diplomacy in this series of posts (http://www.aadl.org/node/11361#comment)!
I’m impressed. But here, check out The Shifted Librarian circa 2005: http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2005/07/14/the_perfect_library_blog_example.html
AADL deserves props for making their library interactive and intuitive.
*Blyberg rocks, especially if you are interested in open-source ILS – yet another part of library 2.0. http://www.blyberg.net/2008/08/16/sopac-20-what-to-expect/
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Wow, those AADL blogs are really fantastic...it somehow hadnt dawned on me that a library would have several different blogs, but it makes perfect sense. Good find, Tara! Have a Guinness on me!
Ann Arbor is pretty famous in the cataloging world, Brigid talked about them in my class last semester! But I'd not had a chance to check out their site, so these links were great. So much information, and I like how all of them have the same color/structure, even the first link which is a slightly different template; consistency is good to help people stay aware of where they are/whose blog they are reading.
Thanks, Tom & Amy - Guinness for all! :)
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