I have added the Ohio University example to the page - thanks for contributing it! If you have more examples please feel free to edit pages yourself to add them :)

The problem of whether students will actually contribute to any of these new sites/technologies is a good question. I'm finding at VHL that while our readers are happy to use the new sites I've set up, they are reluctant to contribute themselves, preferring to see them just as more resources to use passively. To a certain extent I don't think this matters as long as we don't end up with a proliferation of sites all doing the same thing - web 2.0 sites offer a lot of advantages for us as managers of information resources because they are so easy to set up and maintain. It's a lot easier for me to post news to a blog and web resources to del.icio.us than fiddle around in the back end of our website for example. But I agree that ideally to get the full potential out of these things we need to find a way to encourage students to get on board and contribute as well as consume. And I have to admit I'm not really sure how to go about this either. Louise and I were talking about this while working on the wiki and the only idea we came up with to prod students into a bit more action would be trying to recruit 'student champions', who are already interested in the library, and encourage them to contribute and then encourage others. Might work well if you can find a few who would be up for it.

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