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Who's REALLY Computer Savvy? Web 2.0 Technologies and your Library

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

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Abstract

What are Web 2.0 applications and which ones will you be implementing in your library? Do “Baby Boomers” fear change and rely too much on email? Are “Gen X-ers/Gen Y-ers” more computer savvy in today's rapidly changing environment? Can social networking technologies enhance our productivity, or are they time-wasters in a professional environment? In this article, based on his paper given at the 39th Annual BIALL Conference held in Dublin in June 2008, Stephen Weiter attempts to answer these questions.

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Legal Information Management , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , December 2008, pp. 270 - 273
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Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2008

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1 Murley, Diane, What is all the Fuss about Library 2.0? Law Library Journal, 100(1) p. 197Google Scholar.

2 Posting of Tim O'Reilly to O'Reilly Radar http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/10/web_20_compact_definition.html (Oct. 1, 2005)

3 Wikipedia entry for “Web 2.0” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 (Sept. 21, 2008)

4 developerWorks Interviews: Tim Berners-Lee (2006-07-28). (May 12, 2008).

5 Fichter, Darlene, How Social is Your Web Site? Top Five Tips for Social Media Optimization. Online. 31(3) May/June 2007. p.57Google Scholar.

6 Collins, Lauren & Yates, Elizabeth, What's in a Name? A Gen Xer and Gen Yer explore what it means to be members of their generations in the workplace., AALL Spectrum 12(7), May 2008. p. 24Google Scholar.

7 For an example of a failure to properly manage risk see the posts at http://www.teknoids.net/node/8309 regarding the “tech savvy” Gen-Yers who insisted on taking the New York bar exam via untested software on their computers. One could argue that the truly “tech savvy” are the ones who opted for pen and paper. See also Software Snafus Upset Test Takers During First Day of State Bar Exams New York Law Journal July 26, 2007 p. 1.

8 Adopting glitzy new tools simply because they are new and glitzy is insufficient. Ojala, Marydee, Managing Social Network Tools, Online. 32(3), May/June 2008. p.17Google Scholar.

9 Stross, Randall, Boomers on the Web: Eons, a Facebook-like site for those over 50 finds Boomers are most interested in social networking. The Syracuse Post-Standard, Sunday February, 10, 2008 p. A-10Google Scholar.

10 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/uk.html

11 Martine, Cindy, Facebook for Professionals, Information Today, 25(4), April 2008. p. 48Google Scholar

12 Search results are from 9 April 2008.

13 Search results are from 10 April 2008.

14 http://www.llrx.com/features/techtrends2008.htm