May 30
Library 2.0 emancipated?
I participated recently the tenth Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) conference in Croatia. Even though the conference is not explicitly a library 2.0 conference, the both notions, ‘library 2.0′ and ‘libraries in the digital age’, are essentially related. They are related to libraries and digitality.
As I already wrote elsewhere, library 2.0 was not mentioned in a high number of presentations, but many aspects related to the phenomenon were more or less explicitly mentioned quite frequently.
It has been noted in many occasions that we are the last generations who bother to make a real distinction between the digital age and the pre-digital age as the coming generations don’t have any first-hand experiences of the pre-era. I assume that the same can be safely applied to library 2.0 discussion. When library is library 2.0 there is no sense to make a point of library 2.0. This does not, however, make the issues discusses in the context of library 2.0 any less relevant. What is needed, following the reasoning of Peter Ingwersen, is that we develop approaches and tools to cope with the problems related to the new things (whether they are user created tags or something else). And what is more important, there is the other side of the coin: the opportunities.