When we returned to our classroom, the collective agreement was, “we understand the online tools. What we had hoped to learn was how to browse and find useful books, since our libraries in high school used Dewey Decimal and this library uses a mysterious combination of letters.”

The librarian had told us if we had any questions, we could email him, but we imagined he was too busy and it would be like standing in line at the DMV.

In this case, if he had directed us to an institutional site on Knowr.com, we would have been able to ask our questions, and he would have had instant feedback about what we took away from his presentation and how he could make it even more useful for the next group. Perhaps the professor could have directed us to Knowr before the presentation, and the librarian could have had the opportunity to know what our questions were before we stepped into his classroom.

This is just one example, and we have many other ideas for how this might work. We’d love any feedback the library community might give us for how to make this more useful and interesting.

I appreciate your feedback about Facebook. I will be sure to pass it along to the team. At this stage, once you’ve created your Knowr account, you can also cross post to Twitter, and invite email contacts.

I hope your readers feel welcome to visit Knowr, and to contact me any time at liz [at] knowr [dot] com.

Sincerely,
Liz Fleshman
Community Manager for Knowr