http://www.nfais.org/2008_ANCO_Tuesday.htm Notes on a "Read/Write Web Opportunity" presentation, at the NFAIS conference. Speaker is Aaron Schmidt, Director, North Plains Public Library.
Schmidt began by describing participatory media and crowdsourcing in terms of nonprofessionals performing librarian functions. Examples of this sort of thing include Ask MetaFilter, Flickr's ID Please group, 43 Things, and the Library of Congress-Flickr image annotation project.
...