Library 2.0 bubbling away
This post has been some time in the writing as I try to gather together some thoughts, and divine meaning from the murky green depths of the Library 2.0 cauldron…
See Also: A Library 2.0 hangover
I have spent the last week or so reading and thinking a lot about “Library 2.0″; what it means, how useful the term is, and so on. I capped off the binge Monday with a reading of Walt Crawford’s 32-page special issue of Cites & Insights titled Library 2.0 and “Library 2.0″
You are not the only one reading Walt Crawford. (thanks also to TangognaT)
I feel strangely sullied, as if I had seen a good idea, eulogised on it, only to find that other people thought it was something else, and I had got the wrong end of the stick. Perhaps I need to ask more questions earlier?
Perhaps there really is more to do in our libraries than we had thought, and the fear of being left behind has kick started our desire to make everything better. Reading through Walt Crawford’s cites and insights shows a myriad of good ideas spread all over the library, but tagged with the same Library 2.0 ticket.
And now, having just read David King discussing the confrontational aspects of Library 2.0 we begin to see why this reaction might be. That same fear that galvanises some of us, is battening down the hatches in others.
The next set of questions:
- Are the people advocating a technology shift the people who have the power and the influence to do it, or do we still have a lot of persuading to do?
- Where do we want to start with the changes?
- Do we want to start everything all at once?
- Do we (more practically) change what we can, when we can, while keeping an open eye and mind to what is happening elsewhere in the world?
- If there is any line in the sand, surely the line is drawn between those whose fear drives action, and those who put heads in sand?
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