my online book report on learning 2.0

so i am a fast reader so i read all the pages mentioned.

the OCLC Next Space Newsletter –
Web 2.0: Where will the next generation of the web it take libraries? well this was like an introductory news brief about learning 2.0. so it is stuff i already knew thanks to staff day and this exercise. i want to know what oclc stands for. i clicked around but i did not find the answer. weird.

Rick Anderson's article "Away from the icebergs" better explains what libraries will need to do in order to keep current using web 2.0. i loved the user education that he promotes.

Micheal Stephen's article "Into a new world of librarianship" was like a how to guide to use web 2.0 for librarians. great info, but it bored me a little since i was not expecting a manual. well i think the this librarian phrase annoyed me. or maybe the fact i had to read most of it twice because the terms were not that familiar to me. he wrote i think from a techie's point of view. but it seems that i know this librarian. i think she works in St. Mary's, but there is more than one. lucky us!

Chip Nigles wrote "To more powerful ways to cooperate." this was about how OCLC (what is it?) is integrating web 2.0 into its system. he got almost all the ideas form this article he kept citing by Tim O’Reilly "What is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software.” i was going to read it but the word software let me know i'd be lost and bored with the content.

John Riemer wrote "To better bibliographic services". okay all the things he suggest and that i understood i want our SMRLA to adopt. well shoot, all libraries. it is very cool and fun and user friendly things he suggested. being a regular and eager patron of libraries since i was old enough to read, i can say this with some authority. so SMRLA when are we doing this cool stuff ?

Dr. Wendy Schultz's 's article "To a temporary place in time..." she lost me somewhere in library 2.0. she was too bright for me. or maybe it is because i am not good at visualizing things in the future.

Wikipedia – Library 2.0 i don't know who wrote this, probably many folks. after all it is a wiki.
okay it is again things that i have learned already. the debate was new to me and it did not seem like much of a debate really

Library 2.0 Discussions (list of great references from Wikipedia) these i did not read. the names of the authors of some of the articles were familiar so i guess i must have come across them in the 23 things or from staff training day.

a question was asked:
Library 2.0 - It's many things to many people. What does it mean to you?

to me it means libraries are like a social networking bookstore reference research place. libraries i think using all the tool of web 2.o and business 2.o can be so much more than just a place/website to do research, find media entertainment (books, games, movies, magazines), and hold community meetings. it can be all those things and more. we are more consumer driven than previously. before libraries were more about research and entertainment in the form of fiction . now with web 2.o we are becoming all these things and more. i don't know if i am expressing it right but the library i have read about uses tags that patrons help create, it has the capability to connect students with researchers from across the globe yet it still is a center for the community. i cannot wait for our library to fully become integrated with web 2.0.