Making digital resources / information available to staff and students

[Karen Bonanno]

I'm very intrigued to know how school libraries are making the digital resources / information that are created in these Web 2.0 environments available to their users.

How do you determine what is quality information in these spaces in the context of a collection development policy?
How do you capture tagging and categories into your LMS?
How do you overcome blocking of some quality information in these environments that could actually add value to the curriculum?

There are more questions and I hope you raise these, but I also hope we can come up with some collective solutions through sharing our thoughts and achievements.

[Karen Bonanno]

I'm beginning to think I set too hard a task with my questions so I'm going to add a little more to the mix.

Belinda Spry & Sarah Hayman in their paper, Collections 2.0: Including users in library collection policy and management in a read/write world, for the ASLA Online III virtual conference, make comment on the now users who create, manage and share their own content through wikis, blogs, social bookmarking, tagging and user rating of resources. This begs the question -- How can school libraries incorporate these valuable sources of information into the school library collection?

Are we dealing with out-dated perceptions of what is considered a quality resource? Are we concerned about the transient aspect of the read/write information...here today and gone tomorrow, or should that be, here today and evolved tomorrow?