Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Week 6 - Thing 15

Thing 15 - Like many other participants in 23.. I watched the youtube "Machine is us/ing us and then got hooked and watched "Conan the Librarian" and "Super Librarian"... The Machine.. video helped explain the importance and the growth potential of Web 2.0. Seeing how quickly information changes this format can reflect and grow with imput from everyone.
I also read several articles on Web 2.0 - "Away from the "icebergs" by Rick Anderson; "To more powerful ways to cooperate" by Chip Nilges and "To a temporary place in time" by Dr. Wendy Schultz. I liked Nilges quoting Reilly's notion of "harnessing collective intelligence" while he used it in OCLC context, it can be used everywhere when talking about Web 2.0. Dr. Schultz definition of Libraries as ... conversation, they are convocations of people, ideas and artifacts ...
fit into the context of Web 2.0 and that libraries must change and reflect the times. Her segue of Library 2.0 to Library 3.0 - Web 3D gives a strong picture of the future and where libraries need to fit or go the way of Rich Anderson's Icebergs.

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