Week 6, Thing 15

Wow!! A 55% drop in circulation over the past 12 years!
In his article "Away from the 'icebergs'", Rick Anderson focuses on 3 "icebergs" and discusses what needs to happen for libraries to avoid them.
CCPL has already moved away from print reference sources to online databases and recommended web resources.
I'm sure that our new website will help avoid the other 2 by making everything user friendly (so important!) and creating a "come to us" style of library service by using some of the technology tools in 23 Things.
Take a look at http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/002/2.htm

Although I rarely use Wikipedia when doing research, especially when sending sites to answer questions in AskUsNow!, I did find their entry on Library 2.0 quite interesting. According to Michael Casey in "LibraryCrunch" public libraries are at a crossroads and need to have "a strategy for constant change while promoting a participatory role fo library users."
Constant change and a willingness to improve/replace services with new and improved ones are a couple of the key principles to Library 2.0.
Although I just glanced at the References listed at the end of the article, I hope to go back later and look at them in more detail.
For more details go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_2.0