A little about me

I have started SLIS in Spring 2008, and  finished 10 classes so far (sigh). I live in Irvine, CA and work as a Library Assistant in children's department in a public library. As part of my job responsibilities, I update and maintain the kid's webpage, and post news about the upcoming programs and events in the Facebook as an adminstrator on behalf of the library. I have been always interested to now more about the social networking sites, but always found myself hard pressed against time to explore into web 2.0 world in more elaborate way. Hence I signed up for this class, hoping to learn a lot about the recent trend and how libraries can benefit by adapting the web 2.0 technology to better serve the online community. As it is clearly evident, it is not going to be a smooth ride for the libraries in California with the proposed $30.4 million cut in library funding, I wonder if incorporating web 2.0 technologies to replace some of the existing services will be an option for libraries in near future?