Saturday, September 8, 2007

9/08/07 #15 PERSPECTIVES ON WEB 2.0

I read Away from Icebergs, Into a New World of Librarianship, and To More Powerful Ways to Cooperate. Yes, I agree that the library needs to remain up-to-date with technology to meet the growing Web needs of its patrons. However, we also need to remember and stick with the basics. The United States, in my estimation, is no longer the world's most intelligent super power. Some of our educational standards have had to be lowered in order to allow people in the lower socioeconomic communites to succeed. We also have an ever-growing illegal immigrant population who are using our schools who do not know the language and have limited reading skills. The libraries need to take into consideration that these people may not have access to computers to gather information. They need to have certain methods in place to help these people. I hope that we never live in a world where we have libraries without books. There is nothing like sitting out on the porch on a warm summer day with a good book that you can hold in your hand. I think that on the Web, people can, throuh hacking, alter information to their favor and ruin the credibility of certain sources. Libraries need to be sure that they are careful in managing Web information for its patrons.

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