Thursday, February 7, 2008

Thing 2.0: Library 2.0

At the two elementary schools I currently work for, there are separate rooms for the computers and the books. The students refer to the room full of computers as the computer lab, and to the room full of books as the library. As a media specialist, I spend the majority of my time in the computer lab, and students refer to me as the computer teacher. The media secretary spends the majority of her time in the library, and the students refer to her as the librarian. To the children, it is plain and simple- a library is a room full of books, and a computer lab is a room full of computers. I am skeptical of anyone who uses the word library without referring to a room or books. Library 2.0 seems to have much more in common with the computer lab. I am afraid that if we replace the traditional meaning of the word "library" with a new meaning, then the traditional library (a room full of books) will slowly disappear.

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