14th Thing: Library 2.0

As far as I can determine Library 2.0 is an attempt by those in librarianship to get a handle on all of the new technologies that are loosely referred to as Web 2.0 and try to determine how those technologies can be used in libraries. I think it's also an attempt to get ahead of the curve. I sometimes feel -- and I imagine that I'm not alone in this -- that technology is changing so rapidly that I can't keep up. Before I become comfortable with one new thing something newer, and supposedly better, has superseded it and I back playing catch-up again.

I do think that there is no doubt that some of these new ways of doing things will become firmly rooted. But many others will fade away. Part of the trick of keeping up is figuring out which Web 2.0 things will really be useful to Library 2.0 and finding ways to use them.