Library 2.0 & User Generated Content

Just heard Patrick Danowski, a young librarians from the State Library of Berlin, give an enthusaistic talk at IFLA. He is a Library 2.0 evangelist and talked about using Web 2.0 principles in libraries — being interactive and allowing for user contributions and feedback. He has been involved with the German Wikipedia. He talked about Wikisource, a community portal and repository of public domain texts using a wiki community, and Citeulike, a free online service to organise references to academic papers of interest and share them with others. HIs final words:
* users can support the work of librarians
* libraries have to build platforms for them to do so
* we have to be open for user contributions and ready to share.
AND, Patrick is pushing IFLA 2.0 and has just started an IFLA Library 2.0 interest group and wiki.