I read the "Away From the Iceberg" by Rick Anderson. Just In Case collection- I know when weeding this idea comes to mind. You think about the Just in Case person who might read a certain novel or need a book for a report. When children and teens come to find our help for resources when writng papers and doing school reports they are often required to have print sources. Sometimes their topics are so obscure you wonder why teachers approved the topic. The just in case collection makes me think of these students who could use certain materials we no longer have. With that being said I try to turn every student on to the online databases. This is a concept that doesn't always seem to translate to the student who has a teacher requiring them to bring in 3 books even though the info on the database comes from a book or the book is an e-book.
In "To better bibliographic services" John Reimer discusses adopting Web features, such as the features of Google and Amazon as well as tagging and patrons submitting reviews. It would be great to have an online catalog that involved tagging. Tagging would be such a great readers advisory tool. Even to have a photo of the book on the catalog would be more engaging to the patron. When I shop online I don't buy something unless I see a picture. Working with teens for the past few years at the library I have found they love writing reviews of books. There hasn't been much of an outlet to highlight these reviews for the public. Having them on the opac would be great and another readers advisroy tool.
To me, Libray 2.0 means keeping up with the everchanging web 2.0 concepts. There are so many ways of easing the use of the library for custormer and demystifying it for those used to web 2.0. Library 2.0 also means that libraries are a place of change. Applying the concepts to our work and seeing how we can use them to better serve a community. Especially the community who uses web 2.0 such as children and teens.
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