Welcome to my new blog

This isn't my first blog. I've had a personal blog for years and it isn't even my first library blog. Even so I am really looking forward to the Learning 2.0 journey because I want to be able to use Web 2.0 effectively. I started a local history blog but found that the main audience for such a topic is not made up of those most comfortable with the technology. I have started weekly Internet classes in an attempt to build people's confidence and increase their awareness. We'll just have to see how that goes.

I think the potential of Library 2.0 is enormous, particularly in my own area of local studies. Local studies collections are made much richer by the inclusion of personal memory. In a project undertaken last year, we digitised a collection of material relating to a women's radio club that existed from the 1930s to the 1960s. We put webpages up on the library's website. In an attempt to capture the personal memories of women who had been in the club, and their families, we created two blogs and asked them to share their memories.

We did get a couple of comments but realised that the people old enough to have been in the women's club probably felt they were too old for blogs!