Monday, May 7, 2007

Web 2.0 and Library 2.0

I read all of the articles in the list. "Web 2.0: where will the next generation Web take libraries?" took me down memory lane to when I was using a university mainframe: searching on the computer meant Gophers, (Archie, Veronica) and FTP-ing and Usenet-ing all over the place (remember looking at bboards?) And email: I actually used to program in my formatting for my email messages or my lines wouldn't wrap but would just go and on! Wow, how quickly things have changed, and for the better. It makes sense that things will keep changing and becoming more interconnected.

By the way, I liked Wikipedia's definition of Library 2.0: it provided a clearer explanation than any of the articles.

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