9/23/2008
Library 2.0
I was interested that most of the literature exercise 10 points to is dated 2005/06. This either reflects when this programme was originally devised, or shows that most of the academic discussion has already taken place. The Wikipedia articles are of this era too, so I suspect it is the latter. The 5 articles listed contain ideas that I suspect would have been really interesting in their day, now they read to me like a template of where NSL is going/may end up. Talk of collaborative cataloguing and sharing - that is re-evaluating the "just in case" model of stock purchase - are part of the eLGAR ethos, and are topics under investigation. The ability to communicate interactively with users is well to the fore as we plan a new website. I would say that the benefits of articulating Library 2.0 is the gathering together thoughts and ideas about the future direction of library service, and conveniently bringing to our attention trends that, while obvious in hindsight, may have been missed by the profession for a long time.
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The reason that the literature is dated 2005/6 is both when the original 23 Things programme started and when there was a big discussion on Library 2.0 in blogs and magazines. (The first Web 2.0 conference was held in 2004. Tim O'Reilly wrote an article in 2005 defining the characteristics of Web 2.0 .) In 2005/6 the discussion centered around the theory and philosphy of Lib 2.0. At present the discussion is more about acceptance and incorporation. If you would like to read more recent material, have a look at the blog post Library 2.0 debased and some answers to this post: The essence of library2.0? and Snake oil, bandwagons and library 2.0. These articles take an evaluation slant on Library 2.0 and I expect more such articles to be forthcoming.
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