Libraries will have to keep up with change to keep up with all the new technology that keeps emerging. In fact, Web 2.0 is already becoming dated, with talk of Web 3.0 and the semantic web. As children learn more about technology in their formative years, it means that these things become a way of life - hard for any of us right now to grasp the concept that we knew of days that our children would see as positively primitive - no mobiles, no computers, no PDAs, NO INTERNET!!! And when I studied IT subjects, I had to hand code all my web pages - compare that with blogger's 3 step sign up process, where you have a web page of sorts, where anyone, with barely any skills, can create a web page.
Web 2.0 technology can be used to help bring a new generation of patrons into the library. The Department of Education blocking myspace could be seen by some as a marketing opportunity to attract that client base into the library, and I don't mean just by giving access to myspace on public access computers, but also by trying to integrate it into the way we do things, with our homepage and other services. Unfortunately, some just don't see it that way.
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