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The Expected Role of Librarian 2.0 in the Library 2.0 Era

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management
  • Abbr : JKOSIM
  • 2010, 27(2), pp.201~216
  • DOI : 10.3743/KOSIM.2010.27.2.201
  • Publisher : 한국정보관리학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : May 27, 2010
  • Accepted : June 15, 2010
  • Published : June 30, 2010

Sue Yeon Syn 1 Sung-Min Kim 1

1University of Pittsburgh

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The idea of Library 2.0 originated from the concept of Web 2.0 social interactions within the Web. From this aspect, Library 2.0 is a library blended with Web 2.0. The most remarkable features of Library 2.0 are interactions and user involvement. Users' roles in new library environments are greater since they can contribute to establishing a library collection by annotating, blogging, reviewing, etc. While users’ roles become important, the responsibilities of the librarians increase due to the unfiltered information created by users. Librarians now should extend their roles as information creators, organizers, providers, managers, as well as moderators. In this paper, we reviewed the current literature on the new paradigm of digital libraries, Library 2.0, and the development of Library 2.0. In addition, we discuss the extended role of the Librarian 2.0 in Library 2.0.

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