Web 2.0 and Libraries: Impacts, Technologies and Trends

by Dave Parkes (Editor), Liz Hart

In a world where computing power, ubiquity and connectivity create powerful new ways to facilitate learning, this book examines how librarians and information professionals can utilize emerging technologies to expand service and resource delivery. With contributions from leading professionals, including lecturers, librarians and e-learning technologists, this bookl explores strategic approaches for effectively implementing, living with, and managing revolutionary technological change in libraries.

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Eric Phetteplace]

I got very little out of this book. One essay had a decent methodology which could be emulated, though it's utterly unspecific to libraries. Overall, the book spends more time describing what Web 2.0 is rather than speculating on how it could be applied in a library/educational context, which is a major failure because I can learn about RSS, Wikis, and Facebook more easily on the net than in a book by LIS practitioners, who have other strengths. The fact that "open source" does not appear in the index is also a little telling.