Week 6: Library 2.0 & Web 2.0

All five articles are basically in agreement about the considerable changes this technology will bring but a few of them are little too feverent in their web 2.0 evangelism. Rick Anderson's skepticism at the very idea of having an actual library collection is far more disastrous then any of those looming 'icebergs'. Few of us live in a truly post-print era; it is only a mercifully small minority of the reading public (i.e. technophiles) who actually use those electronic readers for a novel or any kind of sustained reading. There are already many free online databases such as Project Gutenberg that digitize thousands of canonical texts surely it is the task of any decent library to ensure a fair portion of these texts can be accessed in the superior medium of the book.