What do Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and their cousin, the social web, mean for law librarians? The 2.0 umbrella includes social networking tools such as facebook, new approaches to library catalogs and resource discovery like aquabrowser, social tagging tools like del.icio.us, and collaborative editing software like the ubiquitous wiki. Web 2.0 is a new approach to building web services based on a philosophy that utilizes technologies that can be rapidly deployed, easily combined, and easily modified. Web 2.0 technologies are rapidly emerging on the web and within vendor products. Come get an introduction to what Web 2.0 is, how 2.0 technologies are currently being used in libraries, and a hands-on demonstration of how some of them work.
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