Well, what a marathon. This has been quite an adventure, a huge learning curve and one that I have enjoyed. However, it has taken hours of work mostly from home. At the risk of repeating myself the more I learn the more I learn I don't know. What I have learnt is that the Mandurah Libraries need to embrace Web 2.0 whole-heartily and without hesitation. 'Make hay while the sun is shining', that is, while the knowledge gained by staff is fresh and many are enthused. We need to set-up on the Mandurah Libraries website a Blog with Facebook and Twitter accounts linked. A natural progression from this will be podcasting and youtube of library and community events. I would like to see an online Mandurah Libraries Bookclub and the perfect site would be via a Mandurah Libraries blog.
I see Web 2.0 as the new forum for linking the community, engaging and conversing with the community and being in the fore-front of disseminating local and library information. When you consider how many hits the library website already has, I believe that library users will embrace this method of communication and the word will spread. I cannot stress enough the importance of library staff actively participating in online conversation as part of their daily work based tasks.
This is my final waffle related to the Web 2.0 training, but I intend to waffle on a great deal via my Blog, Twitter and Facebook. Hopefully I will be waffling with you all again soon!
Well done!
ReplyDeleteI think I've said it before, but it's a sign of the dedication of Mandurah Libraries staff that so many have completed this course at home, in their own time.