Week 6 Thing 15

I read all of the 5 perspectives on Library 2.0 from the discovery list.
"Away from the Icebergs" By Rick Anderson. He pointed out that there are icebergs front of us threat to our future success. First, the "just in case" collection, as a Web 2.0 reality continues to emerge and develop, our patrons will expect access to everything--digital collections of journals, books, blogs, oldcasts, etc. Second, Reliance on user education, we need focus our efforts not on teaching research skills but on eliminating the barriers that exist between patrons and th information they need. If our services can't be used without training, then it's the services that need to be fixed--not our patrons. One-button commands, such as Flickr's, "Blog This", and easy -to-use programs like Google page Creator, offer promising models for this kind of user-centric service. Third, the "come to us" model of library service, in the post-point era, we have to be a bit more humble in the current environment, and find new ways to bring our services to patrons rather than insisting that they come to us. This means placing library services and content in the user's preferred environment, i.e., the web; even better, it means integrating our services into their dailly patterns of work, study and play.