14th Thing Web 2.0: Library 2.0 is to me a way to connect with a younger generation of users. Promotion of library services through MySpace and Facebook accounts and even Second Life accounts can counteract the perception of libraries as stodgy places of the past. Though there may be internal 2.0 applications such as google.docs, I feel the major effect is external from the patron's perspective. It seems even more necessary for libraries to survive into the 21st century, for us to reevaluate the methodology of our services.
Reading Dr. Wendy Schultz's essay on Library 2.0-2.4 was thought provoking. I was interested in her distinction between the 2.0 and 3.0 tenants of product and service. Many economic analysts are predicting the evolution of the U.S. economy into a service economy. However, her Library 4.0 seems a throwback to the elitist first libraries - or is it impossible at this point to imagine what libraries will conceivably be like that far in the future?
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