Library2.0 and the '23 things' course

Vicki Owen (Liverpool John Moores) attended the LILAC09 conference a few days back: http://www.lilacconference.com/dw/index.html
(I believe this is the same conference that Wendy and Lynne attended)

One of the parallel sessions was entitled: '2.0 much to do: how, when and why should library staff find out about web 2.0, and what does it mean for information literacy?'

This sessions was resented by Jenny Evans and Ruth Harrison from Imperial College London. They spoke about their experiences of the '23 things' course: http://plcmcl2-things.blogspot.com/. Imperial was one of the first (if not the first) institution to run the course in the UK and I believe it was instigated by Owen Stephens (errata: Owen did not instigate this).

Rather than rewrite what Vicki has already written, it is easier to read her report of this session: http://vickiowensm-learningblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/parallel-session-20-much-to-do-how-when.html

Vicki's comments and the findings of Jenny and Ruth underline how important it is to increase the awareness and use of web2.0 technology amongst library staff so that they can keep up to date with what students are already using on a daily basis.