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This OCLC membership report explores this web of social participation and cooperation on the Internet and how it may impact the library’s role, including: The use of social networking, social media, commercial and library services on the Web How and what users and librarians share on the Web and their attitudes toward related privacy issues Opinions on privacy online Libraries’ current and future roles in social networking

This international study, conducted jointly by OCLC and the Rutgers School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, will investigate factors influencing the selection and use of chat-based VRS study user and staff perceptions of satisfaction investigate why non-users of these services do not choose VRS seek to develop research-based recommendations for VRS staff to increase satisfaction.

The Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records (FRANAR)

To define functional requirements of authority records To study the feasibility of an International Standard Authority Data Number To serve as the official IFLA liaison to and work with other interested groups concerning authority files.

This Feed2JS web site provides you a free service that can do all the hard work for you-- in 3 easy steps: Find the RSS source, the web address for the feed. Use our simple tool to build the JavaScript command that will display it Optionally style it up to look pretty.

In this brief overview, I hope to illustrate some of the bstrategies and practices I've encountered in review writing--from my own experiences as a reviewer, from my students' questions and comments related to reviewing, and from several eminent voices in LIS who have written about reviewing--as well as what you can expect related to processes and communication between you and JWL. Review writing is one of the clearest examples of professional service within LIS, impacting continuing education activities, collection development decisions, and, indirectly, the surface of the publishing landscape for LIS serials, monographs, and software. There are, of course, individual benefits as well, but I'll get to those shortly. The discussion below is meant to illustrate several techniques that might be useful as you prepare your first few reviews, but with respect to any specific technique, your mileage may vary; feel free to adapt these suggestions to match your personal working and writing styles.

Network for students of Library and Information science.

For those of you unfamiliar with current on-line LIS education, most classes have a section devoted to on-line "discussion." The theory is that you are supposed to discuss, via posts, topics pertinent to the material covered in class. In reality, the boards just turn into a mass of people trying to say the smartest sounding, most cleaver thing they can possibly think of. I've rarely seen any "discussion" taking place on these boards

If we believe all the hype and rhetoric then we are essentially Information & Knowledge Professionals [1]in an Information & Knowledge Society[2] with an Information & Knowledge Economy [3]during the formative years of the Information & Knowledge age[4].

This manifesto is intended to propose that we do just that; that as students, faculty and staff we transform SLIS and create the kind of utopian digital learning organization that we all supposedly advocate. Let us apply the Web 2.0, Library 2.0, social networking, knowledge management principles that we are all in training to implement in society at large. Let us engage in the manifestation of a vision we all allegedly maintain:

A geeky guy is transformed by the library's resources into a rock 'n' roll star. (less)

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Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to provide an overview of the collaborative tagging phenomenon and explore some of the reasons for its emergence. The paper reviews the related literature and discusses some of the problems associated with, and the potential of, collaborative tagging approaches for knowledge organisation and general resource discovery.