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June 19, 2006

Special MySpaces

There seem to be a cornucopia of MySpaces coming out.

Here's one that seems to be a MySpace for Academics (Thanks Sarah).

http://www.academici.com/

I thought you might find it interesting.

I've recently seen a MySpace type site for Mommies, and one for Denmark as well as others. It's a trend!

I wonder why libraries aren't collaboratively creating these environments for our users? Is the only real collaboration we do about ourselves, our own networks - cataloguing together, webjunctioning together, buying through consortia together, meeting our needs. Are we too local?

Can we truly claim to be user centered? Other than geographically, how?

Stephen

Posted by stephen at June 19, 2006 4:07 PM

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