Week 6 Thing #15

After reading multiple perspectives about Library 2.0 I have mixed feeling on the matter. As Michael Stephens outlined in his perspective, Into A New World of Librarianship, librarians will change as technology changes I understood that, yes libraries need to stay current and make information easily accessible to people, but I think books are so often overlooked and people go straight for the internet. I often see students going straight to Google to do research for projects. They get tons of hits for the thing they are searching for and have to wade through all the material that is quite often above their reading level. Students today, in my experience anyway, rarely take advantage of books in the library that are quite frequently layed out in a way that would make it easy to organize a research paper. However, if we want to get students to the library using the most current and up to date technology is the way to do it. Students today are very technologically in-tune and having the latest and greatest will make the information relevant to them.