In the OCLC Newsletter, Tom Storey posed the question about "Web 2.0 and Where Will it Take Libraries?" I read the following responses:
Away from Icebergs by Rick Anderson of U. of Nevada, Reno Libraries
Into a New World of Librarianship by Michael Stephens, Librarian, Blogger
To more powerful ways to cooperate by Chip Nilges, VP OCLC
My response:
I am overwhelmed by the change that school libraries are facing. In order to succeed, do we as librarieans need to move our services into the world of the users instead of asking the users to come to us? As we consider this type of change, librarians will need to explore the world of the Read/Write Web to see what it offers us. Putting it another way, we will need to examine whether the model(s) we use to teach information literacy is (are) still relevant. We need to ask if we can, or should be, using Web 2.0 to teach students how to find, use and synthesize information. (Or, is Web 2.0 so intuitive, they can teach themselves?) For many of us, learning Web 2.0 represents a steep learning curve and an investment of time and energy. Are we up to the challenge?
More questions than answers, I guess.
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1 comment:
Yes, yes, yes and yes again! These articles create more questions than give answers. I guess it's all about choice and picking the tools that are both useful and needed. Trying to do all for everyone is just going to run us into the ground.
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