So in 20 words or less

So in twenty words or less what would you want someone, like me who is a novice to Library and Web 2.0 to know?

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Permalink Reply by Deborah Fitchett on September 28, 2007 at 1:17am

Users first. Know the possibilities. Play.

This is cryptic; I could say more, but then I'd blow my 20 words. :-)

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Permalink Reply by Katerina Yefimova on September 28, 2007 at 1:37am

Hmmmm.... well :)
Set up objectives and than look for the tools to realize them.

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Permalink Reply by Beth Wrenn-Estes on September 28, 2007 at 8:49pm

So Library and Web 2.0 lets you be creative?

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Permalink Reply by Troy Swanson on September 28, 2007 at 9:57pm

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts...but personalized.

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Permalink Reply by Beth Wrenn-Estes on September 28, 2007 at 10:11pm

OK Maybe I should have let you all write more back to me. I am really a novice so if you can be a bit more detailed those of you who really know about 2.0 I would be so grateful.

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Permalink Reply by Troy Swanson on September 29, 2007 at 12:48am

Sorry, I was trying to be cute.
I would say that library 2.0 is the most important thing to understand and at the same time it is a term that is almost impossible to define in a detailed way. This Talis document goes into the detail. To me, library 2.0 is the effort to take the next step in further evolving library services to meet user needs utilizing a range of networked technologies. There are tons of people in this ning network who will have pages to offer on this, but I think that this quote may put it best:

For 2,500 years we've been told that knowing is our species' destiny and its calling. Now we can see for ourselves that knowledge isn't in our heads: It is between us.
David Weinberger. Everything is Miscellaneous. (p. 146)

Libraries can no longer be about storing and providing access to knowledge. It's about creating situations that bring people together create knowledge in an active way.

Here's a further discussion from this ning community.