I love words and talking about words and this one is delightful. In reading the Library 2.0 articles that word popped up a few times, mainly as “twopointopians”, and it seemed to be symbolic of many of the arguments. Much of what I read seemed to be more focused on symantics rather than actual content. It seems clear to me that technology and the web are changing the way libraries work and the way people interact with libraries. Call it what you like–Library 2.0 or the future–it’s happening. And it seems to me that everyone should stop arguing about what to call it and figure out how to do it. I liked what Walt Crawford said, “In general, I’m hoping there will be measurement of these services, particularly in those cases where there’s friction between providing new services and maintaining old ones.”
Makes sense to me.
