I was in the virtual peanut gallery at this morning’s SirsiDynix Institute Conversation: “The 2.0 Meme – Web 2.0, Library 2.0, Librarian 2.0.” The panel was the Library 2.0 Gang of Four, i.e., Stephen Abram, John Blyberg, Michael Casey, and Michael Stephens.

All four men were in good form, sounding the themes that are familiar if you read their blogs. Stephen Abram as emcee knocked me out once again. Here are two pseudo quotes from my notes, though I don’t think these will be nearly as funny here as they were out of Abram’s mouth:

Something simple like Flickr [for photos of "Rock the Shelves"] can make libraries cool, hot, sick!

I don’t know how we get people to play more in libraries, but we need to do that–it is less stressful than saying “library management has decided that we will all blog!”

By the end of the week, the seminar should be archived on the SirsiDynix site.

Tags: ,