Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Library 2.0, or no?

It's time to start thinking aloud on this blog and to share in dialogue with other librarians who are thinking about the future. So -- for some weeks now I've been reading blogs and articles about Internet 2.0 and Library 2.0 and thinking of all the cool things we could be doing here -- blogs, wikis, podcasts, and all those things. And tonight I'm brought down by Christopher Harris's piece in the current SLJ, p. 24, in which he says that we can't actually break loose in our schools and public libraries and let kids use these tools without a lot of moderation. Obviously, there's a difference between high school kids and younger ones, but my first reaction to Harris's piece is dismay and discouragement. There's too much going on tonight here in study hall for me to give this any more thought now, but I'm just putting it out for a start.