I've used a few answer board type sites over the years to get answers on technical stuff that I don't know much about or to get recommendations/reviews for music, movies and books. I've generally found them to be pretty useful when I've used them and don't think I've ever come away empty handed. I think it's great that there are so many people out there who are willing (and able) to share their knowledge and expertise with others. Whether their motivation is ego driven or due to a genuine desire to help out others (or a bit of both), I think it's a great thing!
I do kind of like the idea of a squad of librarians "slammin the boards" in a coordinated campaign of information professionalism, but ultimately I'm not really sure how successful it will be in embedding the greatness of the library profession into the minds of the online masses. Certainly some of the "exemplary answers" examples on wetpaint were pretty good detailed answers, but I think there are so many other (non-librarian) people out there also giving out good detailed answers in their areas of expertise, that it will be hard to make that much of a splash!
I do like the idea of users being able to somehow rate library services or collections. I would really like to be able to enable our users to review and rate items in our collection along the lines of sites such as Amazon, etc., and also for them to recommend other similar items. Our library will be getting a new LMS within the next year, so it would be great for it to be able to provide this level of interactivity.
I found this website which specialises in music related advice. I've had a bit of a look around and it seems pretty comprehensive although I did come across a few dead links.
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Well - it looks like you are thinking it through.
Ellen
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