Trish Webster's Page

I work in the Orewa College library two days a week and I am also completing my BA degree in Information and Library Studies and the Humanities. My last paper is a research paper and I am looking at which Library 2.0 services are being used to attract teenagers to use their library's services and whether they are effective. I had explored the Ning.com website but didn't discover this Ning, luckily my supervisor found it and put me in touch.
It is difficult in a school library to really do much, as yet, with web 2.0. School administrators tend to block all social networking sites, children will have their internet access blocked if they try to go onto Bebo, Facebook, etc. We have started an internal library blog, available via our library homepage, but haven't enabled comments. It is fairly new territory for us and there is not too much info out there about other peoples experiences. I am hoping that my research will help me to know how to move forward with web 2.0 / library 2.0 tools in our library. I am very aware that there are issues for schools that are probably not quite so relevant for other types of libraries. But then every library probably has its own special set of difficulties.