Library 2.0: A Patron’s Summary
My administrator had a great idea recently. He wanted to be able to discuss important books and ideas with the staff, and yet he did not want to overly tax our time. So, he enlisted the help of a bright, active patron to write brief book reviews and present ideas that our staff could discuss a couple of times a month. Since he started this activity, we have discussed such books as Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat and Oliver O’Donovan’s Common Objects of Love and discussed the potential impact they could have on our library. He recently had the patron, Matt Crawford, research the concept of Library 2.0 for the staff. Some of our staff were very familiar with the concept, and others were not. I thought Matt did a pretty good job of presenting the idea, so I asked his permission to publish his piece on my blog. So, if you would like to read a patron’s summary of Library 2.0, you can download it at the link below.
Greetings! What actually happened at Internet Librarian was an off-handed remark to the group in the Public Libraries track where I mentioned that the concept of the new breed of library Websites fell into the discussions about L2. No presentations specifically addressing the term were given, although L2 is one of the topics for this fall’s Internet Librarian International conference.
Michael Casey was not there, although I wish he would have been! It was a great conference.
Comment by Michael — March 10, 2006 @ 2:25 pm
Thanks for the correction. I will try to footnote that in the text in the next day or so!
Comment by NeoArch — March 10, 2006 @ 2:37 pm