In regards to your comments about the head of HR at a large academic library and “spearheading the implementation of new ideas and technologies” I think that is precisely why a course like this is valuable. What I think is more important is that as library grads we have the ability to not only be comfortable throwing the words Library 2.0 and WEb 2.0 around but that we come with an understanding in the power of what social media tools can bring to libraries AND to hopefully be able to implement them!

Rachel – that’s an interesting article you refer to. The incident, of course, goes beyond non-authoritative into actively disruptive (or offensive to some) comments. The library policy was not to “monitor the tags too closely [but to] remove tags only if they contain explicit material or racial slurs”. So, I guess they have a policy, but one that’s a bit vague. The other part I found interesting was that “the tags appear under each book’s call number and look like they were added by library officials” – clearly they haven’t dealt with classifying this information as non-authoritative (as Blyberg says). Very interesting article – thanks for posting it!