Web 2.0 provides an exciting opportunity for libraries and their communities to share virtual space and take knowledge in to another dimension. To encourage communication forums, knowledge sharing and event participation via the click of a mouse. Instant gratification, without the social stigma. Kindred souls communicating on the same wave length, without needing to publish hard copy to have it read and critiqued. Whoever would have thought, when I broke through the egg in the nest, as just a wee chick, I would ever have been communicating in a virtual world. Web 2.0 allows libraries to become a conduit for information access for virtual users, with really good sites attracting more users in a day than seems physically possible, then sharing what they have seen,heard and read with the big wide world! I muse about the future of NZ Post and the Jolly Postman as I write this, wondering whether they will fade away, just like the glass milk bottle, and become something that is described in the annals of web 2.0 under the wiki history links.
Is this the start of the library without hard copy items that we were promised in the 70's?
Saturday, October 4, 2008
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