Library 2.0 theory: Web 2.0 and its implications for libraries

Jack Maness suggests that recent thinking describing the changing Web as "Web 2.0"will have substantial implications for libraries. While these implications keep very close to the history and mission of libraries, they still necessitate a new paradigm for librarianship. Read about Web 2.0 technologies such assynchronous messaging and streaming media, blogs, wikis, social networks, tagging, RSS feeds, and mashups for libraries and their users. More

Posted by Cecila Walter, University of Cape Town Libraries