[Publib] Friday Research

[Logan Abbitt]

I am quite fond of Ellyssa Kroski's Web 2.0 for Librarians and Information Professionals. (http://www.amazon.com/Web-2-0-Librarians-Information-Professionals/dp/1555706142/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232750421&sr=8-1) I was in the midst of creating a class on Web 2.0 & Libraries when I found this book. I like the way it is organized, breaking down what she sees as the defining elements of the nebulous web 2.0 and explaining how libraries can (and do) relate to these elements. 
 
 
Thanks, 
 
Logan Abbitt 
Information Services Librarian
 
Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center 
855 McArthur Road
Fayetteville, NC 28311-1961
labbitt at cumberland.lib.nc.us <mailto:labbitt at cumberland.lib.nc.us> 

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Sent: Fri 1/23/2009 4:24 PM
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Subject: [Publib] Friday Research


Speaking as a researcher (meaning, not a librarian here) I have a question for the library world.  But first, some preliminaries.
 
I've only been reading library journals since about 1970.  Prior to that I had no contact with the currents of the profession.  I missed a lot of what Dewey wrote first time around, but I looked it up later.  
 
Some nice reader of publib sent me a note:  "What exactly is Library 2.0?  It seems like a bag of air to me."
 
And so, as a researcher, I ask the same question of this audience.  Because, as a researcher, which is to say, a reader, gatherer of information and a writer of papers based on findings, I find (so to speak) that there isn't anything at all to write about regarding Library 2.0.  I am disappointed in myself.  Rarely do I fail to discover content in my searches.  This time I seem to have whiffed.
 
Whiffed completely.  As in, stuck out--worse than that, even.  Because I didn't even see a ball.  Though I've seen quite a few pitchers.
 
I was wondering is anybody out there could direct me to a product, outcome, fixed or changed process of any significance which is connected in any original way to this 2.0 thing?  Because I have to let my friend know what I've found, and right now, I've got nothing.  If you'd like to help, please answer these questions:
 
1.  Before Library 2.0, the situation was XXXX.  Now, post-2.0, the situation (here) is measurably different in that (fill in blank).
 
2.  Library 2.0 represents a significant or complete departure from previous operations in that it (explain here).  
 
3.  The essential, tangible components of 2.0 (as opposed to nonspecific references to philosophies, attitudes or the like) are:  XXXX.
 
4.  My answer to anyone who would suggest that Library 2.0 is merely a collection of slogans and tech-speak from coffee house idlers would be:  XXXX.
 
5.  I could easily ask for an increase in my library's funding based on Library 2.0.  I would simply tell the City Council (expound here).
 
Of course, you are free to supply your own information and arguments.  
 
M. McGrorty (sitting in a meeting whose speaker seems to be promoting Naptime 2.0.

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