Week 6 #15

Web 2.0, Library 2.0, School library 2.0, ect., ect. The perspective that caught me more than the others was To a Temporary Place in Time by Dr. Wendy Schultz. It looks like the entire article was from a 2006 OCLC newsletter so a lot of this is already old news whether or not we have on any of the 2.0 philosophies. Many of the other perspectives focused on getting user feedback, making library decisions transparent and user centered. This seems to have always been a philosophy of libraries, the 2.0 part just changes the medium from face-to-face committee/community meetings to online communities. Schultz's perspective moves beyond 2.0 and makes predictions for Library 3D, some of which already exists, and Library 4.0. The expanded functionality of the Internet seems to be moving just about everything to an online presence. For me at this point this means creating an online library experience for students that is more than just a webpage with links. Students need to be able to participate in the online and physical library, comment on the online and physical library, and create content at both the online and physical library. This class has given me a general familiarity with some tools that can start to accomplish this. I am nervous about giving up the tried and true that I already know how to do but I am excited to move into what to me is the unknown, but is commonplace to the students.