Library 2.0

I have very fixed feelings about all of this. I can see a usefulness for communicating with library users, and perhaps expanding the number of people who use the library, but on the other hand, I think there is too much hype. There seems to be an assumption that all library interactions can be transacted online. I'm afraid that the library as a place will fall by the wayside. Information retrieval on the web still seems to have a long ways to go. I'm confronted too often with browsing long lists, instead of being able to use information retrieval tools that will only give me what I want.