You don’t need technology for Library 2.0 – but it helps
Those following the Wallis Blyberg discourse about Library 2.0 [latest installment] would be forgiven for thinking that Library 2.0 is all about technology. As a techie myself, it is not difficult to find myself waxing lyrical about technology for its own sake. Others well represented by MaisonBisson, and picked up by LibraryCrunch, are quite rightly questioning the technology hype around Web 2.0 & Library 2.0.
The more I look at the Web 2.0 Meme Map, published by Tim O’Reilly in the summer, the more the bubble halfway up on the left hand side strikes me as the key one “An attitude not a technology“.
Library 2.0 is about getting that attitude right, and fundamentally changing our traditional thought patterns. Then using the technology from people like us techies to realize the ambitions that change in attitude gives rise to.
That change in attitude and approach also influences the way the technology is delivered. It would be easy to get in to a ‘chicken and egg’ debate here, but who cares. Its the result, just like libraries, that matters.
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December 6th, 2005 at 10:26 am
And, for those who think Talis is too firmly entrenched in the technology camp (we’re not), which company does the person who originally said “An attitude not a technology” work for…?
Clue – read the original post at http://internetalchemy.org/2005/07/talis-web-20-and-all-that
December 6th, 2005 at 3:03 pm
Richard, please don’t misunderstand me. Technology is the essential infrastructure for Library 2.0. My point was that technology alone doesn’t make a library.
Please see the rest of this comment here:
http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11001/