18 (The Barely Legal Thing)

I just examined the My Space pages for Alachua County, Jacksonville, Pasco, and Ask-A-Librarian. At first I was hesitant to explore someone else's space because I am known to have an almost magnetic attraction for restraining orders. Maybe I should add my list of restraining orders to my ta da list from a previous Thing. Anyway, these pages have some good potential. A couple of them concentrated on basic library news, which seems a bit redundant. The libraries already have their own websites, and although these 2.0 sites will allow access to the libraries from a place where the patrons may already be, most of the features needed to really search properly will be at the original sites. I also see that many of the "friends" listed are simply self-published authors trying to pimp their wares. I think the Pasco site is interesting because it concentrates on the Battle of the Bands program, which seems more appropriate for a My Space page in order to reach that particular audience and allow them a personal page that seems removed from the rest of the library. My library had a battle of the bands, but I was the judge and therefore I always won. I performed my karaoke rendition of Billy Joel's Uptown Girl, much to the chagrin of the angry scowling teens.