id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt ital-3267 Lankes, R. David; Silverstein, Joanne; Nicholson, Scott Participatory Networks: The Library As Conversation 2007-12-01 17 .pdf application/pdf 13506 708 55 This section seeks to highlight promising developments in integrating library systems well beyond the library catalog and to highlight not only an ideal endpoint, but also how this ideal system is truly participatory. merging reference and community involvement The functional area furthest along in the integration of participatory librarianship is reference; as reference is most readily recognizable as a conversation, this comes as no surprise. This new model, of patrons adding information directly to library systems, is not as radical as it may first appear. cache/ital-3267.pdf txt/ital-3267.txt