Abstract

Assumptions on the development prospects of library 2.0 are stated. According to these assumptions, the professionals working at the library are key components of a library 2.0. Following up to this thesis, principles and key problems of enhancing "librarians' 2.0" skills are discussed. The chapter concludes with an outline of some important and typical building blocks of a library 2.0. These are a) new ways to engage with users, b) bringing library services and data into the users' information space, c) enhancing the focus of libraries' collection and classification activities with freely availabe informations on the web. All references and examples are reachable from the author's account at the social bookmarking service delicious under the tag embi08, cf. http://delicious.com/lambo/embi08.

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