Library 2.0

This 23 things concept has not been received well by many staff members. Some have given up entirely, some are woefully behind, and some are just plain lost. When I first heard that administration was starting this, I was rather excited. The staff could use the skills which are being taught in an effort to become a more "2.0" place. I wish more of them could read, and also understand, the concepts discussed in the articles presented this week. I've been attempting to justify why we should be learning these things by simply saying that the skills are useful unto themselves, while knowing myself that these skills are essential to a more "2.0" library experience.
But, change is slow, and I hope our system catches up someday.
As you might have guessed, I read those articles, and it is stuff like this that makes me excited about librarianship. I'm not particularly thrilled about learning about legacy librarianship skills, like recalling which particular book will answer a type of question, but more how to handle future scenarios like those discussed in these articles. How to provide service better, how to shape our metadata, how to anticipate future needs, how to focus the collection. These are all interesting and though provoking questions that I look forward to answering, (given the opportunity,) in my soon to be illustrious career.
One could go on and on about the Library 2.0 concept and what it means to them, but the specific idea that I particularly like is the idea of a collection that thrusts itself into the daily habits of the populace. I'm thinking small collections in retail situations, much like a Starbucks has an outpost in a Super-Target, why not have a small in-demand collection next door? Bring the library to the populace, instead of making them come to us, as one article discussed. I hope to see this concept in place sooner or later, I know some systems already have experimented with it.
Other than Library 2.0, this week we discussed Del.icio.us, which is a useful site if one bookmarks scads of pages. I don't. What might be useful is if the library system created one for staff, or even patron, usage, instead of maintaining a static html sytle list, (not even Xhtml, please!)
Also discussed was Technorati. I'd heard of it before, but was never particularly interested since I had thought one had to somehow "prove" oneself to a particular audience to gain Technorati status. I thought it was some sort of pseudo-club. Seems I'm wrong! I suppose it's good for people really into blogging. Again, I'm not.
Good week, if only for those articles. I wish all the articles on Web/Library 2.0 were as succinct.