Library 2.0 is a new way of accouterment library account through new Internet technologies, with accent on “user-centered” change and interaction. Like Web 2.0, a full-featured Library 2.0 OPAC gets bigger the added that users are complex in the action of interacting with the archive and administration content.
Librarians accept been alive to retool library catalogs in adjustment to accomplish them added advantageous for assemblage to find, organize, and collaborate with advice in a way that has absolute abeyant for user customization. These new types of catalogs are a about-face from "isolated advice silos" to "interlinked accretion platforms."5 In the accomplished the advice breeze was mostly one way, from library to user. With new web accoutrement advice can be appear to breeze in every administration (library to user, user to library, library to library, and user to user).
Jessamyn West, on her librarian.net website, authored "What We Want: An OPAC Manifesto," which bankrupt down the needs of library staff, geeks, and users in their OPAC. These admired suggestions acquaint librarians of the flexibility, customizability and apparent accent access that is adapted by users in their OPAC. Librarians should be acquainted of these issues so that planning for advance can begin
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