I'm hardly a Luddite--had my first Mac in 1985 and haven't looked back since. And I'm the first to say that libraries wouldn't be what they are today without computers, databases, and such. But I wonder how much the Web 2.0 effort is advancing librarianship.
As I learn the 2.0 tools, I'm having trouble relating them to the work I do. In my former life as a ref librarian, much of this would've been useful--if only to be able to understand students when they asked questions about this stuff. But for the rest of us--circ, technical services, administration--I wonder whether Web 2.0 is causing us to re-engineer what we do just for the sake of doing it.
It all comes down to who's doing the driving: the technology or the task.
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