Week 6, Thing 15

I understand the philosophy of Library 2.0--how do we keep libraries (as information providers) relevant in an age when so many people have access to the internet and the resources related to technology? It's so much more convenient to research/find information at home--in a comfortable, private setting. Libraries, in order to combat this, must somehow incorporate the technology that is partly responsible for creating its irrelevancy. In other words, libraries almost need to go above and beyond other resource outlets on the internet in order to provide a better, faster, or more efficient way to find and sort through information. This seems to be the point of Library 2.0--to incorporate all types of web information in easy-to-use multi-sourced databases by using tags, bookmarks, etc. While for these reasons I find Library 2.0 to be necessary, there is a great inherent risk involved in that in the library's attempt to remain relevant, the out-dated reading form (books) will be ignored and abandoned in favor of things like e-books and audiobooks. Books, therefore, must somehow remain viable in a time when everything else is telling people material, physical books are a way of the past.