I've just finished my semester at Dominican as an adjunct—the version of LIS 753 Internet Fundamentals & Design I teach is taught over three fun-filled and information-packed weekends—and turning the students in the class on to online social tools and the bigger picture of what's happening online was a highlight for me. We ended the class with group presentations, a discussion of the Newsweek cover story on the Social Web, and a look at three 2.0 job descriptions as a wrap up.

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From a constructivist perspective, Rock ‘n' Roll Library, a mini-video project produced by some Pitt library grad students for National Library Week (which starts this Sunday), could be a shining example of a constructivist-learning activity. "We've had a whole lot of wild experiences," reports Rick Samuelson, a twenty-something library-studies Pitt MLIS candidate, who stars in the nearly five-minute production the students completed for a library-marketing course. "Because none of us really were familiar with the technology going into it, we've had to learn the editing programs.

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“Libraries are…" I can't finish that sentence; I can't seem to come up with an encompassing term or pithy phrase to finish it in a way that would do justice to the notion of the library, the value libraries provide to humanity, and all the library facets we encounter in the Information Age.
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Evaluating Our Institutions and Education
The posting of a job at Wayne State University Libraries back in January was worthy of note to me because it was the first time I'd seen Web 2.0 tools specifically mentioned in a job ad. The 2.0 meme was indeed unfurling into many facets of libraries. A few weeks later, Jenny Levine posted about another job—this time for a school media specialist with definite 2.0 duties.

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