In nearly every class in library school the professor would want to discuss the future of libraries. Many of the accounts we studied were very grim, and I admit that its possible I stayed away from employment in a public library for years partly because I began to believe some of the doomsday accounts of physical library spaces becoming things of the past as users increasingly turn to sources of virtual information. Now that I am happily employed in a thriving public library I feel much more hopeful that libraries will continue to have a strong presence in the future. We do need to progress, using technological advances to our benefit and adapting our services to fit the new generations of tech savvy users. This MD 23 Things project is a perfect example of how librarians are familiarizing ourselves with popular technologies and considering ways that libraries can use them to make things more accessible for our users.
In reading some of the perspectives on Library 2.0, I copied the ideas that really stood out to me:
"The active and empowered library user is a significant component of Library 2.0." ~Wikipedia
"The key principles of Library 2.0 are not just about access to books and information. It is about innovation, about people, and about community building, enabled through the participation that social computing brings. It achieves this through trust and encouraging users to share ideas through writing, rating, and commenting against everything in the library's collection. It even makes the collection open to developers to use, re-use and improve!" ~Wikipedia
"As a Web 2.0 reality continues to emerge and develop, our patrons will expect access to everything – digital collections of journals, books, blogs, podcasts, etc. You think they can’t have everything? Think again. This may be our great opportunity." ~Rick Anderson, "Away from the "'icebergs'"
"Adopt Web features The features of Amazon and Google of interest to students and scholars ought to be incorporated into the services libraries make available. Libraries should welcome the submission of reviews, assignment of keywords (“tagging”), addition of scholarly commentary, and other forms of user participation." ~John Reimer, "To better bibliographic services"
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