Thing #10

I read all five of the articles. In Icebergs, I found that his putting down the "come to us" model of library service does not address the loss of the library as a community and the ability to pass milages. The use of Web 2.0 tools by librarians for the benefit of the user sounds good. We do need the education. Better cooperation as suggested by OCLC resulting in building better data and better user friendly tools are great goals, and better bibliographic systems using "metadata" is great to. But what about all those who haven't the financial where-with-all to effectively learn and use these tools? Is the library with it's limited teaching abilities really helping those in need? Or are we just providing more for those with more (convenience for the haves)?