Manifestos or Kool-Aid?

STUDENTS AT LANGARA COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN VANCOUVER ENJOYING THEIR NEW ENVIRONMENTALLY “GREEN” LIBRARY. SADLY, THE LIBRARY IS THE ONLY SPACE ON CAMPUS WITH WIRELESS ACCESS.

 

“A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING LIBRARIANSHIP—THE SPECTRE OF LIBRARY 2.0.” — the Annoyed Librarian

After reading the Annoyed Librarian’s rant, “A Librarian’s Anti-2.0 Manifesto, I wanted to balance it with something pro-manifesto. As I wanted to jazz up my blog a bit, I went to YouTube to see what might be available (there’s always something available on YouTube). Eventually I came across this pro-manifesto video:

 

That’s a lot of “I wills” for the average librarian to commit to.

It seems to me that this librarian, Laura Cohen, drank the whole pitcher of Kool-Aid at the Burning Man festival in the desert and then forgot to get back to her library.

Now, let’s take a closer look at Libraries, Librarians & Library 2.0 around the world. We’ll start in Canada:

 

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