Week #6 Thing #15

I enjoyed reading these perspectives. I chose the ones addressing the "3 icebergs," the "New World of Librarianship" and good old Wikipedia's description piece.
First of all, I think the image of icebergs looming in the near distance is an effective one for libraries and education in general. There are so many threats and challenges ahead. I'm not sure about Mr. Anderson's argument about the "just in case collection," though. My husband is a high school librarian who is extremely adept technologically and works at integrating many 2.0 resources into his library; however, he is constantly ordering new books and resources so that the students that enter the brick-and-mortor structure can also have many good choices on the shelves. I do agree that libraries cannot rely on user education and must be proactive in that sense; I definitely see that with my students. Well, they think they're educated as far as how to use the technology, but they're all over the map! And I think it's absolutely true that we cannot expect users to "come to us." Again, it pays to be proactive here.
I also like the notion of a library as transparent. Classrooms need to be transparent, too.
And while I agree that it's important for a librarian to embrace Web 2.0 tools such as weblogs, MySpace profiles and mashups... again, I'm still intimidated by all of this and hate to think that I'm an ineffective teacher while I'm still learning the language of Library 2.0.
As far as what Libary 2.0 means to me... I'm going back to the original idea of collaborative, customer friendly and welcoming and picturing a happy medium between the 2.0 tools and the old-fashioned collections/services.