Thing #15: Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the Future of Libraries

The video, a vision of students today, highlights the fundamental challenge that faces educators today; how do we present the content to the 21st century student using the tools with which they are most comfortable and adept?

I read the following blogs/articles and selected the following points and/or quotes that I thought were significant:

Michael Stephens: Into a New world of librarianship: "User-centered libraries breakdown barriers and allow users access wherever they are: home, work, commuting, school, or at the library."

• Librarians plan for their users
• Librarian 2.0 embraces Web 2.0 tools
• Librarian 2.0 controls technolust
• Librarian 2.0 makes good, yet fast decisions
• Librarian 2.0 is a trendspotter
• Librarian 2.0 gets content

In Rick Anderson's blog entry, away from icebergs, he expresses his views on topics he views as obstacle for libraries and librarians, feeling that librarians need to take a look at these issues and "re-think" their approach for the success of their libraries in the 21st century.

• The “just in case” collection


• Reliance on user education


• The “come to us” model of library service

I like the way Dr. Wendy Schultz breaks down the "ages" of libraries...

• Library 1.0: Commodity The library from Alexandria to the industrial era:


• Library 2.0: Product How should the library package its commodity—books—as products


• Library 3.0—Web 3D to Library 3D: Service There are SecondLife3 subscribers who spend more than forty hours a week online, immersed in its virtual graphic world. Digital natives take 2.0 for granted; they are buzzing over Web 3D.


• Library 4.0, the neo-library: Experience

David Warlick's 2 worth

Students

• understand and use technology systems.
• select and use applications effectively and productively
• troubleshoot systems and applications.
• transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies.