"Thing" 15

Sounds like something out of an Addams Family episode, doesn't it? Our new "thing" on Library Learning 2.0 this week is all about Social Networking. You know what I'm talking about - My Space, Facebook and all the others out there. There is so much controversy surrounding these social networking accounts with predators, impostors, and just plain mean and down-right stupid people. The big question this week is whether or not our library system should use one of the social networking sites to connect with teens. You know what I say - ask the teens themselves. We have many teen groups already in our library system so why not just ask them if they would use it, be offended by it, or wouldn't participate in it. It's time we stopped wondering what others may think of us or what other libraries are doing. We need to talk to our own - our customers and our teens - to find out what they want, how they want to communicate with us and and how they want to learn from us and grow from us. Then we succeed.