Have you heard of Nings?

I hadn’t, until the word was going around on the business librarians BUSLIB -L mailing list discussion group that a new “business librarians Ning” had just been started up earlier this month.

So, I found out that a Ning is a very Web 2.0ish concept: a platform where anyone can create their own customized social network. So one has been created that is “dedicated to connecting business librarians” that work in universities, colleges and in businesses.

There’s only 58 member so far, but there’s a fair amount of activity: reference questions, job listings, features like “what blogs do you read”, posted photos taken by members–and perhaps most appealing of all–the fact that so many librarians have posted a picture of themselves along with their names, so members can get a sense of the person they’re communicating with on the Ning.

I’ve just started checking it out, but I like what I see so far: it’s kind of a MySpace for business librarians, I guess, (but whose members are much better spellers!)