Showing posts with label Library 2.0. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Library 2.0. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Library 2.0 and the future of libraries

Quite frankly my eyes glazed over on reading some of these articles and I thought I was reading Marshall McLuhan--fortunately the Wikipedia article brought more of a sense of reality to the subject. Wendy Schultz's To a Temporary Place in Time provided an interesting projection into a possible future, but in public libraries I myself am not quite ready to give up the pleasurable physical experience of the book to live in a totally 3.0 existence. The blurring of fantasy and reality (40 hours a week of SecondLife cannot be healthy) can have a dangerous side for society. The 4.0 experience sounded better but somehow the author's use of language, and mixed metaphors/concepts got in the way, and I was not sure exactly what reality was really being communicated to me...