While on vacation in Ann Arbor earlier this month, I stopped in at Ann Arbor District Library to chat with John Blyberg about the exciting work that he’s been doing for the AADL website and catalog http://www.aadl.org/cat/seek/search using Drupal. John has a sidebar to an article in the September 1st issue of Library Journal (p. 32) about some software that he is developing to bring social networking into the library catalog (and the article itself talks about XC! What a great fit! More on that article)
John talks a lot about Library 2.0 in his blog, especially in this posting: http://www.blyberg.net/2006/08/23/neither-far-out-nor-in-deep We’ll be really interested to keep up with what he’s up to, as our Project Team discusses how XC can include some of the features that John is exploring.
John is also one of the organizers of Library Camp East http://wiki.library2.net to be held this September in Darien Connecticut. Wish our entire team could attend - sounds like a great time!