This has been around a little while now but it’s an interesting read (one librarian suggests it should be essential reading for anyone who works in libraries - I agree!): from the OCLC newsletter, a feature on Web 2.0 and its impact on libraries.

Away from the “icebergs” - a look at the “remnants of a bygone information age, practices and attitudes that no longer make sense but which we have difficulty letting go” by Rick Anderson.

Into a new world of librarianship - Michael Stephens suggests the skills librarians will need in a Library 2.0 world.

To more powerful ways to cooperate - Chip Nilges considers how Web 2.0 principles allow us all to cooperate, contribute, collaborate. Actually, this blog is a good example, showing how a group of geographically distant librarians could get together and launch something! Could we have done it without email, IM and the wiki?

To better bibliographic services - does “Web 2.0 philosophy point the way to a number of significant ways library services can and should change”, asks John J. Riemer.

To a temporary place in time - Wendy Schultz moves beyond Library 2.0 and looks forward to Library… 4.0. “Library 4.0 will not replace Libraries 1.0 through 3.0; it will absorb them. …Library 4.0 will add a new mode, knowledge spa: meditation, relaxation, immersion in a luxury of ideas and thought.”

Sounds great - now let’s make our way there, together!