What is Web 2.0 and how does it affect our lives as librarians? In reality, we all deal with Web 2.0 everyday from our cell phones that we cannot live without to the computers that we use on a daily basis to help the patrons that come in with questions. Web 2.0 helps us to stay connected with each other and communicate in real time. It allows use to share ideas and information and to collaborate with each other from across the street or across the planet. In libraries, we need to use this technology to allow us to better serve our public. We need to expand our ideas and minds to accept that we can understand and use the World Wide Web on a daily basis to help the patrons at large.
Library 2.0 is a wonderful way to say the library is changing and we need to change with it. More people can access the library from the comfort of their homes and never see the inside of the library. eBooks and eAudiobooks have caught on and now people can get them on the go. We need to allow for the need for ease in life. To accept that we live in a world of instant gratification and we have to serve them now. It will come to us ... We as librarians just have to wait.
Blogs are wonderful ways to express yourself. It is quite simple to get a blog going and just talk about whatever your heart desires. It is a very simple way for a library to get the information out to its patrons. The patrons could subscribe to the blog or the blog could be linked directly to the library's website.
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