Comments on: Don’t forget about David Weinberger’s book release talk & party Monday http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2007/04/29/dont-forget-about-david-weinbergers-book-release-talk-party-monday/ "All that is left to me is the sound of snow underfoot." --Haruki Murakami Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:07:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: j's scratchpad » Blog Archive » Why aren’t library catalogs more Web 2.0? http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2007/04/29/dont-forget-about-david-weinbergers-book-release-talk-party-monday/#comment-5357 j's scratchpad » Blog Archive » Why aren’t library catalogs more Web 2.0? Wed, 02 May 2007 04:08:49 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2007/04/29/dont-forget-about-david-weinbergers-#comment-5357 [...] One of the questions after David Weinberger’s talk Monday is why library catalogs don’t have more features like some of the Web 2.0 tools and Web sites like Amazon have. What would be so wrong with suggestions like “People who read this book also read …” or informal book reviews and tagging integrated into catalogs? Privacy issues, especially in the post-9/11 world, jumped into my head immediately. Laws and librarians’ professional ethics place great importance on library customer confidentiality. In systems with a very large patron base, it might not be so difficult to trace a list of books and figure out who might have checked them all out. However, in small town libraries, being able to do that might not be so difficult. [...] [...] One of the questions after David Weinberger’s talk Monday is why library catalogs don’t have more features like some of the Web 2.0 tools and Web sites like Amazon have. What would be so wrong with suggestions like “People who read this book also read …” or informal book reviews and tagging integrated into catalogs? Privacy issues, especially in the post-9/11 world, jumped into my head immediately. Laws and librarians’ professional ethics place great importance on library customer confidentiality. In systems with a very large patron base, it might not be so difficult to trace a list of books and figure out who might have checked them all out. However, in small town libraries, being able to do that might not be so difficult. [...]

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