A sentence in this reading really leaped out at me - "At the moment, libraries tend to connect users with information and do little to connect users with other users, either for the purposes of generating community for its own sake or to enable users to assist one another. The Internet provides a significant technological opportunity for for libraries to be more active in creating an organised group of library users who feel them collectively rather than individually associated with the library."
Currently there are a few communities that are library-based - book clubs, storyteller group and toddler time group but none of these use the Internet. We are currently developing a wiki for people in Tauranga that have lost their jobs and this could develop into a community.
Other possibilities that sprang to mind - the website could include forums for people interested in particular topics. A librarian could be assigned to monitor each forum and contribute postings about relevant resources - books, databases, websites.
People could subscribe to a listserv for their favourite author and be sent details of new books added to the collection, invitations to book club sessions discussing the author's works, reviews of new books etc.
Connecting this to that
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