Comments on Academic Libraries and 2.0

I was very impressed by Laura's A librarian's 2.0 manifesto. Today I went to her Library 2.0 blog to read Academic Libraries and 2.0. I cound't agree her more on the point about librarian's role of educator and leadership.As a example, when software IE, Internet Explorer upgrade to 7 with advanced feature on RSS feed who should be the person to spread and instruct things to our student? Instead of IT person, Librarian should instruct students on this. That's why we should stay ahead of new technologies. I also had experience one student came to me ask help to use Word2003 to open up a Word file with .docx as extension instead of common .doc. Actually .docx file come from Word2007. I needed to dowload a converter software to convert .docx file to .doc(rtf)file. We will need time to go to either Library 2.0 and Librarian 2.0,as far as we get familiar and comfortable to adopt ourselves to new coming technologies. we will be feel more comfortable to provide instruction and services to faculty and students in academic environment.