A new version of the Internet (version 2.0) is now available. Libraries are now free to abandon the first one.
-- Posted from Internet Librarian 2007.
-- Posted from Internet Librarian 2007.
Monday, October 29, 2007
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Yeah, well, first I'd have to come up with some circulation stats to show that the old one was checked out of the building enough to warrant getting a new one.
So, was the first a beta version? I never did get it to work right...
Oh! Ha, I never can keep up with this technology stuff. What's this "internet" do, now?
so does this mean we can stop offering the outdated internet to the patrons?
Better yet, I believe this makes the puny 1.0 eligible to be included with all the other donations we never asked for... in the library's next book sale!
What's a fair price for an outdated item like this? Free to good home, perhaps.
We'll hang onto our copy on the off-chance that The Big Bang loses momentum and time starts going backwards.
This is pretty much the only policy we have on anything in our library service.
I'm confused. I applied for a job that asked "what is your opinion on how to apply Web 2.0?, or some such shit. I had no clue what they were talking about. What is it anyway??
Back in the old days you could have fallen back on "It's a paradigm shift in the way that we work," but that's been laughed out of existence.
The sensible (and so almost certainly wrong) answer is "We need to be careful that our application of the technology is driven by the needs of the service and our customers and not that the needs of the service and our customers is defined by the application of the technology."
Or, as a college director said when I tried to introduce "23 Things"; "Does the College have access to web 2.0?"
Kevin Musgrove, you sound like a college professor. I thought I had to give up that nonsense writing when I finally graduated from Library School.
Actually, that nonsense writing did help me to make a nonsense response. Didn't get the job, though. Probably a *good* thing.
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