2nd Thing - Learning about Library 2.0

The libraries of today are nothing like the libraries I remember using as a kid. I actually am pretty proud of our little library and how advanced it is compared to other libraries in our region. The librarians who work at this library are the very type of librarians who would be able to instill Library 2.0 to other staff and our patrons. Many of us just started working on 23 Things and the buzz and excitement created by just learning about Avatar and setting up a blog was so much fun to watch. We all are sharing our blog pages with each and are all excited to learn about the 23 things.

As for Library 2.0 our library already does provided some new activities for our patrons, for example we have a monthly game night at our library. I have heard staff talk about adding a blog to our website as well as wikis and other web tools, hopefully after we all complete 23 Things this will be a goal we will complete in the future.

On John Blyberg's blog he quoted Sarah Houghton's definition of L2, in it she mentions libraries having a "collaborative photo site". This was interesting to me since we have a character storytime, where someone dresses up as a favorite children's character. We read stories and have special crafts around the theme of the character. There are always so many cute kids who show up for the event, they will take pictures with the character and make a special crafts. We have a digital camera for use here at the library and I am able to get pictures of some of the kids and I have always wished there was a way to post all of the pictures for the community to see. Having a collaborative photo site would be one way to be able to share all of these priceless pictures with everyone. But a question I have about posting pictures is "Do we have to have parents sign a release form in order to post the pictures?" This would be such an nice way to promote the library but I feel it is something we could not accomplish if we would need to keep track of release forms from parents. Does anybody else post pictures and if you do, how do you do it?