#19 - Library 2.0

Search Engines, Web 2.0, Library 2.0

A popular definition of Library 2.0 is provided by Sarah Houghton:
Library 2.0 simply means making your library’s space (virtual and physical) more interactive, collaborative, and driven by community needs. Examples of where to start include blogs, gaming nights for teens, and collaborative photo sites. The basic drive is to get people back into the library by making the library relevant to what they want and need in their daily lives…to make the library a destination and not an afterthought.

Read about Web 2.0 and Library 2.0:
- Introducation
- 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
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Library 2.0 is an example of one thing true to life –change is constant!

It is great for libraries to be in touch with the present, transforming in step with evolving communities and patron needs, while keeping the library’s past and fundamental function; a public organization which provides information to the masses. Digital technology is a present-day resource offering tools that library’s can use to improve services. As for predicting the future of the library (…3.0…4.0…), only time will tell. One thing can be certain; the library will carry the documented history of its own evolution for patrons to access.