Week 6: Library 2.0 & Web 2.0

I think that Library 2.0 is a concept or a philosophy of how the library should provide the services. Web 2.0 reality will continue to emerge and develop, and the services that our library provides will have to follow up otherwise we will be out of the touch with our users.

Rick Anderson, the Director of Resource Acquisition at the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries, believes that we need to focus our efforts not on teaching research skills but on eliminating the barriers that exist between patrons and the information they need. If our services can’t be used without training, then it’s the services that need to be fixed—not our patrons. I do not agree with this. It sounds idea and it might be true in the academic environment where students and faculties have the basic computer literacy skills and are exposed to the latest technology. This is not the case for pubic library patrons. The foundation and basic have to be built first. That is what we are doing at our branches -- teaching the basic computer classes, providing trainings, creating instructional guides and demos, etc. Once they have the foundation or the basic skill, they will know what to do when they use the easy to use programs such as Flickr's "Blog This". Otherwise, they will be looking at "Blog This" and say "Ah?"

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