#51Social web

How much is too much ? Library of congress photos appeared to create a storm of response, where to go with this?
Connection speed will be very important(the three clicks rule etc) younger users are joined at the hip (wrist?) to their phones so services need to target this tool . The speed of change in technology may be an impediment, just when you get set up the rules will change. How can organisations face the necessary costs involved? will it mean the end of the free public library and a move as so many things are now toward user pays. How will this sit with a goal of providing information access to all?
Se Chan(“Social media, social networking - learning from libraries, the new
OCLC report,”) suggests it will be very messy but that we should open the doors to user created input in the library but that it will be "right on mission"privacy rules will need to be opened up He disagrees with the OCLC research that

strongly challenges the assumption that libraries should copy social media services on their own sites, and instead recommends that libraries open up for users to make use of content in their own ways on other services. Participation on library sites will be low.

Competition is high and the messy approach will be the norm there is a push for libraries to reinvent themselves from suppliers of information and providing access, into creators . Watch this space.