Now Every Library Blog is About 2.0!

What was the subject of my first posting? A fascination with Web 2.0?!

It's true that I do love 2.0. But there are other aspects of librarianship that are equally fascinating, and sometimes I get tired of reading library-related blogs in which every posting seems to be describing a new social networking site. Let's talk about something else.

What, then? The wonderfully-fulfilling aspects of librarianship (like finding that elusive piece of information that your patron has just been dying for, or finding him the book that his mother read to him thirty-some-odd years ago whose title and author he's forgotten)? Or those moments in which you wish that you had done anything with your life other than work with the public (like breaking up fights over who gets to use a computer or who has been annoying whom with his cell phone conversations)?

How about both? Because everyone experiences both the glories and the pitfalls of professional life (if you only experience the highs, you haven't been in the field long, and if you have only experienced the frustrations, chances are that you're no longer working in a library). Together, they give us so much food for thought. So, despite the fact that 2.0 is exciting and immense and sometimes overwhelming (and so in itself gives us a lot to talk about!), we have the potential to discuss so many different things. Let's add some variety to our conversations!