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We'll explore these ideas and offer solutions for those struggling with new models of service, technology, and a decidedly opaque climate.

Now social bookmarking and tagging tools help librarians bridge the gap between the library's need to offer authoritative, well-organized information and their patrons' web experience.

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

A blog is a species of interactive electronic diary by means of which the unpublishable, untrammeled by editors or the rules of grammar, can communicate their thoughts via the web.