I enjoyed the two articles, "Away from the 'icebergs,'" by Rick Anderson, and "To a temporary place in time," by Dr. Wendy Schultz. These articles blend well to give a total picture of libraries.
We do need to look again at what we have come to believe are those "tried and true" avenues of quality library service and realize that guidelines for sharing information and ideas are constantly evolving--they always have been and they always will be. It just comes as such a shock now because of the exponentially increasing speed of information accessibility, the quantity of information we are able to tap, and the quickly changing informational formats.
Nine years ago I can remember that the University of Maryland library system was working to achieve a uniformity of search access for its approximately 50+ online databases to make information access easier for the students--as the Anderson article said, "spend as little time...wrestling with...interfaces and as much time as possible actually reading and learning."
Now, Web 2.0 presents libraries with the same challenge of access to this constantly changing collection of information being formed by its users. I really like the YouTube video, "The Machine is Us/ing Us," where it says that Web 2.0 links people who teach the machine through their input of information--and the machine is us.
The Schultz article mentions Library 3.0 and Library 4.0. That is as it should be because libraries do have an exciting future.
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You're really doing great and staying on top of these things. The way you are articulating and exploring the tensions these articles bring up are a great model for other staff. Keep up the excellent work!
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