http://remainingrelevant.net/remaining/100 Why stop dreaming when you wake up? Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:57:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://remainingrelevant.net/remaining/100/comment-page-1#comment-353 Remaining Relevant » Blog Archive » The tutor and his pupil? Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:42:11 +0000 http://localhost/remainingrelevant/?p=100#comment-353 [...] The latest version Michael Habib’s Academic Library 2.0 Concept Model comes to me this morning by way of Jennifer. I find it one of the best and clearest explanations of why we, as librarians should care about the current online social trend. I wonder, though, how does it change when applied to public libraries of all sizes? My first inclination is just to point out that it gets longer. Communities that public libraries serve are so diverse - how can you reach both the house-bound elderly who’ve grown to use the library as their main social contact and now can’t as well as the college bound student? The tutor and his pupil? The answer is that Library 2.0 doesn’t mean that Library 1.0 (or Library B.C.?) stops - it simply embellishes. It provides tools for reaching out to more patrons in a way that you haven’t done before. [...] [...] The latest version Michael Habib’s Academic Library 2.0 Concept Model comes to me this morning by way of Jennifer. I find it one of the best and clearest explanations of why we, as librarians should care about the current online social trend. I wonder, though, how does it change when applied to public libraries of all sizes? My first inclination is just to point out that it gets longer. Communities that public libraries serve are so diverse – how can you reach both the house-bound elderly who’ve grown to use the library as their main social contact and now can’t as well as the college bound student? The tutor and his pupil? The answer is that Library 2.0 doesn’t mean that Library 1.0 (or Library B.C.?) stops – it simply embellishes. It provides tools for reaching out to more patrons in a way that you haven’t done before. [...]

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