The Future Social Library

by Joy Weese Moll

What is Social Software?

Online tools for connection, communication, and community

Wikis

• Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki
• St. Joseph County Public Library Subject Guides
• Practice Pages (make your own wiki page)

Blogs

• Ann Arbor District Library AXIS
• WU Libraries What's New
• Physics Library News
• LibrarianInBlack
• ACRLog
• Wanderings of an online librarian
• Bloglines for Librarians in Three (and a half) Easy Steps
• Bloglines
• Google Reader
• RSS in Plain English (video with sound)

Instant Messaging

• Meebo

Sharing sites

• delicious for bookmarks, Lansing Public Library User Tools
• flickr for photos, Lansing Public Library User Tools
• YouTube for videos
• LibraryThing for books

Online communities

•  Facebook
• Wash U Students on LiveJournal

• Library 2.0 Ning
• Twitter

More ways to explore

• Yalsa's Positive Uses of Social Networking
• Learning 2.0 at PLCMC