All That 2.0 Stuff

This seems to me the real meat of the 23 Things, and, to boot, some pretty significant stuff.
I'd like to quote Michael Stephens in his article Into a New World of Librarianship:
"Librarian 2.0 controls technolust This librarian does not buy technology for the sake of technology. “Techno-worship” does not exist here. Without a firm foundation in the mission and goals of the institution, new technologies are not implemented for the sake of coolness and status. Technology is put to the test: Does it meet the users need in a new or improved way? Does it create a useful service for putting users together with the information and experience they seek? These are some of the questions this librarian asks when planning for technology. This librarian creates and nurtures a living, breathing technology plan."
Stephens is dead-on here. We can't take the user where the user doesn't want to go; and if we leave the user out of the equation there is no solution.

The application of RSS feeds to PACs is a more comprehensible and exciting idea to me now that I have actually used RSS feeds for my personal interests and read John Reimer's To Better Bibliographic Services. We're doing some of the kinds of things he suggests in the article in odd places about the library's website : for example Youth Wired and Kid's Page offer readers the chance to review titles; but how much better to attach that option to the OPAC.

But Whoa! and GeeUp!. Wendy Schultz looks beyound Library 2.0, through Library 3D, to Library 4.0: Library 4.0 revives the old image of a country house library, and renovates it: from a retreat, a sanctuary, a pampered experience with information—subtle thoughts, fine words, exquisite brandy, smooth coffee, aromatic cigar, smell of leather, rustle of pages—to the dream economy’s library, the LIBRARY: a WiFREE space, a retreat from technohustle, with comfortable chairs, quiet, good light, coffee and single malt. You know, the library.

*all articles referenced are from NEXTSPACE : the OCLC Newsletter WEB 2.0 Where will it take libraries
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