Web 3.0

Oh.no!


We're just getting used to Web 2.0 and I see this on a link from a link from a link: Web 3.0


Someone defines it as applications that use the web as a platform, but are no longer websites. ...And I feel myself slowly sinking, as the wave I was trying to surf rolls on.......
It's slow times at the Circ Desk, but I still can't figure out some of the stuff from about 10 lessons back. (OK, now that I've admitted that, I guess it's time to leave RSS links behind and forge ahead.)


When this 26 weeks wrap up, what will we have accomplished in the library? Some of us: not much; some of us: much; the library as a whole: aahh, that is the real question. If our purpose is to better serve the patrons, then we had better not be so eager to show what we know about 2.0 as we are to listen to what they want. And that leads to the question, "Do they know what they want?" And to continue in this circular direction...How are they supposed to know when they are asking the right questions? (Do we consider their questions "right" based only on what we currently have/can do?) Should library skills be taught? What skills are appropriate for libraries these days? Should we figure out a way to do what the patron is asking? How much of Library 2.0 will this entail? Am I back where I started yet? There's another wave out there.