Web 2.0 ideas

OCLC's articles had some every interesting ideas. One of the ideas I found interesting came from the article, "To Better Bibliographic Services", John J. Riemer states that we should use better relevance ranks by bringing in such information as circulation activity or sales data. I think this is a very good idea to bring more variables into our relevance rankings as long as we can still create individual search by such categories as subjects.

I also found two interesting ideas in the article, "Into a New World of Librarianship", by Michael Stephens. One was the idea that libraries could be more transparent in its decision making. Obviously we cannot be all things to all people but letting patrons see where we are headed and receiving their input could possible give libraries a better reputation and better functionality.

I like what the tools and ideas of Web 2.0 can produce but I also liked to here Mr. Stephens statements against "technolust". I think it can be easy for anyone interested in technology to want to try anything new regardless of how our patron's would actually use it. I think there is the challenge, to embrace these uses of technology and understand where they can used most effectively.