Comments on: 2.0 Ambivalence http://bensbytes.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/20-ambivalence/ Clips and Comments from the fringes of the Bibliosphere Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:49:42 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: jessamyn http://bensbytes.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/20-ambivalence/#comment-7 jessamyn Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:35:29 +0000 http://bensbytes.wordpress.com/?p=7#comment-7 I think one of the weirdest things about the 2.0 bandwagon stuff is how, for librarians thinking about these technologies, there's a real difference btween how we use them professionally and how we use them personally... or is there? For me it's easy my life is sort of an open book, but I'm totally understanding that other people may not want to be that way. So maybe you have del.icio.us links for your work, how do they interact wiht the ones you might have for home, or should they? I think for people who don't use the technologies much, the instinct is to dive right in, without reflecting on the fact that the professional use of this tool might be a lot dofferent than a personal use for it. I talk about 2.0 ideas sometimes and one of the things I think is an advancement for libraries is having staff be individual and contactable -- I often point to web pages that have photos of smiling staff as a very open thing to do. However, that has to balance with having staff who feel that they are a little *too* accessible if their contact information is online. At one public library I worked with, female staff didn't want to wear name tags because male patrons would be creepy about knowing their name and a little verfamiliar. I'm not totally sure what to do about things like that, but I think their concerns are real and need to be addressed in this post-privacy world we keep talking about. Thanks for the thoughtful post. I think one of the weirdest things about the 2.0 bandwagon stuff is how, for librarians thinking about these technologies, there’s a real difference btween how we use them professionally and how we use them personally… or is there? For me it’s easy my life is sort of an open book, but I’m totally understanding that other people may not want to be that way. So maybe you have del.icio.us links for your work, how do they interact wiht the ones you might have for home, or should they?

I think for people who don’t use the technologies much, the instinct is to dive right in, without reflecting on the fact that the professional use of this tool might be a lot dofferent than a personal use for it. I talk about 2.0 ideas sometimes and one of the things I think is an advancement for libraries is having staff be individual and contactable — I often point to web pages that have photos of smiling staff as a very open thing to do. However, that has to balance with having staff who feel that they are a little *too* accessible if their contact information is online.

At one public library I worked with, female staff didn’t want to wear name tags because male patrons would be creepy about knowing their name and a little verfamiliar. I’m not totally sure what to do about things like that, but I think their concerns are real and need to be addressed in this post-privacy world we keep talking about. Thanks for the thoughtful post.

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