Great class today! A big thank you to our presenters--I know this workshop really got me thinking about how I am going to bring RA 2.0 home to my library. I'm hoping to turn "Book Bites" (our monthly book group w/ snacks) into "Book Bytes"--a blog, or maybe even a wiki!

I was hoping the gentleman who spoke up about RSS Feeds today might share his thoughts online with all of us. They sounded kind of cool and manageable for even the beginning 2.0-er.

Also, I'd love to hear more from the lady who suggested creating some sort of 2.0 book group guide!

Finally, I know we had at least two luminaries in our midst today (in addition to our awesome speakers). I would love to hear Cindy Mediavilla's and Joni Bodart's thoughts and suggestions.

From the presenters:

Thanks so much for the great feedback!  We were all so pleased to meet so many interesting people, all interested in RA and RA2.0.  We'll be figuring out how to develop this wiki in the coming weeks, but for the time being we wanted to add the information that all of you shared with us during the workshop. 

Traditional/1.0 RA Activities

Booklists

Databases: NoveList, Amazon

Bestseller Lists

Book Bites (book group)

Newsletters/Friends Newsletters

"If you like..." booklists

2.0 Activities

Booklists on wikis and blogs

Learning wikis for use in training and book reviews

Book blogs: by staff and by community members

Film (and other media/format) Blogs

IM advisory interviews

IM book groups

Using MySpace and FaceBook to create a library presence

There are three main things to consider when planning 2.0 activities: Goals, Limitations, and Resources

Possible Goals:

IM alerts when new books of interest are added to the catalog

Setting up an RSS feed to add content to library webpages/set up RSS feeds for library blogs

Work through "23 things" list of RA technologies from the Charlotte Library: http://plcmclearning.blogspot.com/

Work with community book groups to produce and share booklists

Possible Limitations:

"Dinosaur" attitudes

Limited staff time

Lack of/different interests

Fear

Different levels of knowledge/high learning curve for certain technologies

Firewalls/permissions/technological concerns

Possible Resources:

Staff with specialized knowledge/skills/experience

Role of facilitator should be familiar to librarians

Bosses: it's often a good idea to learn their interests and angles when enlisting their support for new projects

Desire for group training/Easy-to-set-up internal wikis