Bob dropped me an email to point us all to Public Library Geeks Take Web 2.0 to the Stacks from over at Wired. Google and Microsoft are racing into libraries to digitize the world’s books, but the success of Learning 2.0 shows that the human problem of retraining workers is often being tackled from the ground up.
“We don’t have to wait for some training company to come along and say, ‘For $20,000 we’ll show you how this stuff works,'” said Michael Stephens [of Tame The Web fame], who wrote Web 2.0 and Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software. “Helene put it on the web so anyone can use that program.”
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