Perspectives on Web 2.0- Thing 15

I read a few of the perspectives from different people and found them to be interesting. I agree with the first selection "Away from Iceburgs" when the writer states "We need to focus our efforts not on teaching research skills but on eliminating the barriers that exist between patrons and the information they need, so they can spend as little time as possible wrestling with lousy search interfaces and as much time as possible actually reading and learning".

While we as a Library are moving towards user friendly interfaces, I think we still have a long way to go. As technology moves on, so will we. We no longer have the monopoly as the writer suggested and we need to "find new ways to bring our services to patrons rather than insisting that they come to us—whether physically or virtually".

Library 2.0 means that we, as Library staff and users, will learn the newest technology in an effort to keep up with the times. We don't, after all, want to have a customer come up to us and have us say "Blog what?" It also means that we will have more informed staff and will find those new ways to bring our services to customers.