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Good starting point for network building for librarians. How I wish I could get a local list going!!!!

A goood overview with some stunning exampoles of how libraries and librarians are using twitter.

# Name Michelle Pearse\n# Bio Librarian for Open Access Initiatives & Scholarly Communication at Harvard Law School Library

Information overload is so five years ago, but the problem it describes is all too real. Fortunately, there's hope yet for the savvy librarian: Twitter and FriendFeed turn information dissemination on its head, using friends and subscribers as a filter for the best, most credible, and most engaging information out there. As Clay Shirky said at the Web 2.0 Expo keynote in January, the problem isn't "information overload. It's filter failure."

Very practical list of tools tips and more