This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending a symposium sponsored by the Yale Information Society Project. There have been a few similar programs at various law schools recently. This symposium raised issues of copyright and privacy, along with the use of the now-familiar 2.0 applications to bring users into a customized world of content, context, and ubiquitous availability of scholarly and popular information via what we have been calling "the library."
Speakers ranged from Jonathan Zittrain to Lolly Gasaway, Kenneth Crews and others whose bios and affiliations are listed at the links above. Coming soon are the presentations themselves, to be posted in full; some are already up at the YaleISp Blog, http://yaleispblog.net/
There was lots of real time Twittering and photos posted but linked from above to flikr.
My takeaway for law libraries: the Faustian bargain as described by Michael Zimmer, Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee. Patrons will be tracked through many of the social networking applications libraries might choose to use, and so there is a trade-off between the sharing and aggregation of information with some of the traditional privacy and anonymity that libraries have afforded their patrons, indeed, even guarded on their behalf.
Much to think about and much with which to experiment.
