Week 6, Thing 15

Library 2.0 and what it means. Well, what does it mean? In general I think it means that libraries need to adjust their ways of operation to include popular technological methods and easy for the user methods. If libraries don't adjust soon and quickly our existence and necessity will be questioned?!? One writer suggests that at his institution there is a ratio of 1 librarian to 608 students. There is no way they can provide effective training for all those students given the ratio. But what is the solution?? At our library the solutions are too varied and too many. Users will expect the traditional services and the new services on top of that. Libraries are not receiving venture capital to explore and expand. How are we to do this with what always appears to be shrinking resources? Maybe we need to reduce the spending on developing the collections as one author suggested. You will never be able to have everything to meet everyone's needs and in most libraries circulation is down. So why build collections? Once we get Library 2.0 started there will be Library 2.1, 2.2, etc. How do we stay ahead of the game??