Week 6, Thing 15 - Web 2.0

I read the Wikipedia article on Library 2.0, Rick Anderson's article "Away from the 'icebergs'" and Michael Steven's article "Into a new world of librarianship." The Wikipedia article on Library 2.0 provides a good overview of the model and I found this meme map particularly useful.

Rick Anderson's perspective was interesting because it advocates practices that are already part of the San Jose Way. He identifies three obstacles to the future success of libraries:

*The “just in case” collection
*Reliance on user education
*The “come to us” model of library service

Stevens basically says that libraries need to provide more access to digital collections (journals, books, blogs, podcasts) and refrain from relying on our print collection. We need to be available to teach our customers on how to use resources, and to make online catalogs etc. as user friendly as possible. And finally, Stevens says we need to find "to bring our services to patrons rather than insisting that they come to us—whether physically or virtually. At a minimum, this means placing library services and content in the user’s preferred environment (i.e., the Web); even better, it means integrating our services into their daily patterns of work, study and play."