Library 2.0

One of the tasks for this week was to read some interesting, but varied, perspectives on Library 2.0 and where we as a public library fit in the whole Web 2.0 world. Trying to figure out my own perspective is a little more difficult. I definitely think that the move toward Library 2.0 is a change in the way we think as public librarians. Less of a "what can we do for patrons at the library" and more of a "what do our patrons need and how best do we get that information to them" change of perspective. Dr. Wendy Schultz proposes Library 3.0 (Service) and Library 4.0 (Experience) as well. In reality, I think those are aspects of public libraries that we have always strived for, even in Library 1.0. But how those aspects are defined has changed, based on a Web 2.0 viewpoint).