What happens when people, ideas and the Internet intersect? Web 2.0 happens.
The Internet is evolving. It’s morphed from a way to access information into a virtual space for discovering and exploring new relationships and new passions. Web 2.0 tools give everyone the opportunity to self-publish, to connect with other people, to organize their work and their lives and communicate with the world.
Library 2.0 is term used to describe a new set of concepts for developing and delivering library services. The name, as you may guess, is an extension of Web 2.0 and shares many of its same philosophies and concepts including harnessing the user in both design and implementation of services, embracing constant change as a development cycle over the traditional notion of upgrades, and reworking library services to meet the users in their space, as opposed to ours (libraries).
Many have argued that the notion of Library 2.0 is more than just a term used to describe concepts that merely revolve around the use of technology; it also a term that can be used to describe both physical and mindset changes that are occurring within libraries to make our spaces and services more user-centric and inviting.
Others within the profession have asserted that libraries have always been 2.0: collaborative, customer friendly and welcoming. But no matter which side of the debate proponents fall, both sides agree that libraries of tomorrow, even five or ten years from now, will look substantially different from libraries today.
Discovery Resources:
OCLC Next Space Newsletter – Web 2.0: Where will the next generation of the web it take libraries?
What put the 2 in Web 2.0? - Image from Adaptive Path, blog post 12/01/2005
What is Web 2.0 - Edge Perspectives with John Hagel, blog post 09/25/2005
What is Web 2.0 - Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly, blog post 09/30/2005
Five Perspectives:
- Away from Icebergs
- Into a new world of librarianship
- To more powerful ways to cooperate
- To better bibliographic services
- To a temporary place in time
Wikipedia – Library 2.0
Library 2.0 Discussions (list of great references from Wikipedia)
Discovery Exercise:
- Read two or three of the perspectives on Library 2.0 from the list above.
- Read, watch or listen to at least 2 of the other discovery resources.
- NOTE: Write your ideas down now AND Save these ideas! Why? In week three, you will create a personal blog. This will be your second blog post. So, write your thoughts down now and save them to use later on for your blog post. Write about your thoughts on Library 2.0 - It's many things to many people. What does it mean to you?
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