Thing 15 Library 2.0 and the Future

It is crucial for Librarians of today to embrace technology and Library 2.0 is that technology. Library 2.0 is a term used to describe a new set of concepts for developing and delivering services according to the blog from Library2Play. In his blog, Into a new world of librarianship, Michael Stephens discusses the skills that Librarian 2.0 need to sharpen. One of his points that really hit me was that a Librarian 2.0 is a trendspotter. This should certainly be true of all educators, but is especially essential for the Librarian of today. We should have a knowledge of what is going on in the technology world, whether it is what technology games children are playing to how to use the things we are learning about in 23 Things. I feel so much more knowledgable in this area of Library 2.0. This world of technology is changing and evolving at a breakkeck pace and we have to keep up.

Thing 12- Commenting

The articles and blogs advise us to comment only about topics of interest too you. Comments also tell the blogger that they are being heard. It is also a good idea to invite comments to your blog and ask open-ended questions. I had some trouble posting comments to some blogs due to my openID could not be verified. I had to try over and over on some blogs. I found some bery interesting blogs by other librarians. The twitters are interesting also. Some of these blogs seem to be very self-promoting.