Isto talked in his presentation about the premises of Information Service 2.0 and referred to an ongoing study on unfound information as a basis for developing future informations services. The takeaway message of the presentation was there is a clear need to focus on a premisory level on that what users can find useful instead of what information service providers have to offer. It is not a question of providing something better or more advanced per se, but rather something different that does not exist or is difficult to find.

Outi reported on her study on professional librarians’ blogs, or biblioblogosphere, in Finland. Professional blogs can function as a channel of communicating very different kinds of information, from various viewpoints and using different strategies of argumentation.

Gunilla presented an ongoing study on scholarly communication and its changes in the era of the social web. She suggested that a traditional cyclical view of scholarly communication is about to change and the social web is affecting multiple stages of the process making it significantly more complex and multifaceted than before.

The conference had a very practical orientation, and it was useful to hear about implementations of Web 2.0 technologies in different kinds of libraries and other organizations. There were also forecasts for the future, for example in the inspiring panel discussion What Constitutes a Next Generation Library by Michael Stephens, Michael Casey and Thomas Brevik, in which also the audience engaged lively.

The atmosphere in the conference was truly international, since the participants came from all over the globe. Also the presentations discussed application of Web 2.0 tools in various countries. All in all, it can be said that we experienced the global Library 2.0 phenomenon in a nutshell!

The course was very well-organized and the lectures gave insight into the research on public libraries role concerning both historical and contemporary perspectives. There were lectures on, for example, the public library as a meeting place, social capital and public libraries and how to use discourse analysis in public library research. The senior researchers who gave the lectures were Michael Buckland, Ilkka Mäkinen, Kerstin Rydbeck, Ragnar Audunson, Frank Huysmans, Andreas Vårheim, Laura Skouvig och Svanhild Aabø.

Isto Huvila gave a presentation on Information service 2.0 (slides) and Kim Holmberg on Facebook and libraries.