Rollyo

Rollyo was fun, but I'm a little disappointed that someone who just wants to come in and edit my searchrolls is able to. Other than that, it's a great search engine I can customize to trusty sites!

LibraryThing

Wow! What a way to catalog books you've read and loved, authors' additional works, and your comments about them. You can spiff up your personal page with photos, links, and messages on what you think and how you think about your choices of books.

Summary

I have to admit I was a little skeptical, at first, about Web 2.0. However, I discovered that these free resources are an amazing way to collect, share, and organize information in an exciting way. Essentially, I believe that the things that Web 2.0 consist of are only going to make libraries more useful. We will be using our own resources to help the public have access to the tools of Web 2.0.

Downloadable Audiobooks

These are wonderful, because they are free! What these sites are doing for the public, in cooperation with each other, is very educational. I also noticed that Project Gutenberg sponsors some of the downloadable sites. My favorite was World eBooks.

Meez

Even though this felt like playing, and it was entertaining, Meez is another fun social networking tool. It gives personality to share photos, comments, videos, and to do all of the things members do that tie each other together via the web.

Tagging, Folksonomies, & Technorati

Tagging definitely helps me to say goodbye to all of those frustrating folders and subfolders. In addition, Del.icio.us will allow many to perform extended research on subjects right from the same website. These tools also allow others to get to know the personalities and thought processes of the people creating them.

Wikis

Well, since I've been focusing mainly on the public, I'd like to share that I found out that wikis can be used internally for staff intranet, IT documentation, special projects, committees and events. Externally, of course, wikis can be used to inform the public of community events, community guides, and subject discussions such as, book reviews. My favorite wikis were Wikihow, IMSLP, and wikiTimeScale.