Leave it to librarians to make embracing web 2.0 this cool

Lynette, my former colleague and self-titled "new" librarian, pointed me at this project which is being run by the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County in the US. The project seems to have been inspired by 43 Things takes staff on a 9 week guided tour of web 2.0 in the context of learning 2.0.

I really like how they've sent realistic tasks, or "23 Things", that introduce some of the core applications that underpin web 2.0 (eg. blogs, RSS, aggregation) but then go beyond to look at image sharing (Flickr), collaborative cataloging (LibraryThing) and of course media hosting (YouTube). Nice bite-size bits and with prize draws for staff who complete all 23 Things. Kind of like a web 2.0 scavenger hunt.

I always love it when someone manages to cut through the mystery of learning and to enable learning through experimentation. Librarians in particular seem to produce some great examples of this.