Joyce Valenza’s Neverending Search

In a post little while back we talked about the potential for and the value of student collaboration/student involvement on library websites. That post and some of your email turned into my VOYA Tag Team Tech column.
Open the Door. Let ‘em In. eVOYA, April 2007. 1-3.

The bigger picture regarding that 2.0-themed column?

Many of us are working differently. This blog continually allows me to post ideas, to solicit input and feedback, and to synthesize the response into a better product (if that product is ever really done).

Today, I also discovered two new books about the shifting collaborative culture, that I think we need to read:

The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Braffman and Rod Beckstrom
“Organizations fall into two categories: traditional spiders, which have a rigid hierarchy and top- down leadership, and revolutionary starfish, which rely on the power of peer relationships.”

And Donald Tapscott’s (Growing up Digital):

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams

Perhaps this collaborative trend is connected to the way school librarians are used to leading–from the center.