Web 2.0 and Libraries

Acknowledgements

Dave Parkes

The innovations in emerging technologies we have witnessed over the last few years have started to challenge almost all of my assumptions of what a library can be – not in the technology itself but the engine of community involvement it has generated. Customers can be partners, authors, co-creators of the vision of a library – a library that is always open, always on, physical and virtual, static and mobile, morphing and changing to meet future needs and expectations. A library is a mixed economy of open source, managed service and hand-built solutions – they don’t stand alone any longer, they are connected entities.

I am delighted to say that the librarians and learning technologists delivering this vision at ...