TASK 15 Library 2.0 Perspectives

I chose to read:

Away from the “icebergs” by Rick Anderson

Micheal Stephens Into a new world of librarianship http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/002/3.htm

and Chip Nilge' s To more powerful ways to cooperate

Create a blog post about your thoughts on any one of these :

Rick Anderson addressed 3 potential disaster areas for providing library patrons successfully with information services in our changing environment.

1. The "just in case collection" with significant drops in circulation statistics of traditional print format it makes sense to to shift expenditure toward accessing Web 2.0 resources. Clearly an evaluation of your own library usage would be used to base strategic decisions upon.
2. Reliance on user education Discussed the need for libaries to engage the best search interfaces to reduce the time customers' self learning to reach their own information needs. This being because in reality the staff ratios are low and it is not reasonable to focus effort on teaching reasearch skills. Handy to read & inspired me to play further with the Google page creator.
3. "come to us " model" nowadays when there is growing equity for patrons getting access to information ......in the developed world......there is a movement away from placing library services in a defined physical or virtual place . Library 2.0 is about integratingin to clients everyday workplaces, study or play.
   

Library 2.0 - It's many things to many people. What does it mean to you?

Something along the lines of Micheal Stpehen's ideas.. Librarian 2.0, then, is the “strategy guide” for helping users find information, gather knowledge and create content.

Learning more about Web 2.0 tools, taking them into my library work and making these adapatations will help better meet the customer needs .