While reading through the five perspectives on Library 2.0 the entry entitled Away from the Icebergs stood out to me because of its challenge to libraries to progress with the times of the information age.
One of the worst things and organism can do, whether that be a human being or an organization, is to become comfortable and stagnant in the traditionally way of doing things and fail to adapt to their evolving environment around them. This period of time is known as the information age because virtually any and all information is so easily accessible through the internet and other forms of media. While the library was once seen as a place with mostly printed information, it is now evolving into a source for all sources of information. Learn and Play is providing CML librarians the privilege opportunity to grow in our efforts to be able to give our patrons several paths to information.
Our CML website also provides a plethora of resources that aids our patrons in finding the information they need in more places then google and wikipedia. These resources provides the customer with more reliable options and causes them to utilize the library as their main source of information. We are the #1 library in the U.S. for a reason and this is mainly because of our dedication to providing more ways of accessing information through our library services.
While we have evolved more than most libraries there still remains a challenge to go even further and transition from obsolete sources of information to cutting edge sources. Our collection development process of ridding the system of books that are decades old and out of shape is a significant step in this process.
How can we further wean ourselves off of our dependency on the obsolete and rely more on the new wave of searching for information?
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