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Public libraries and digital climate change

His life’s work: already to be some place else by the time anyone else got there. (Powers, 2002)

A sign of the times

This book, as is the way of most writing endeavours, began as one thing and became something else. In the initial drafting, it was intended as a straightforward introduction to Web 2.0 tools with examples of good practice, rounded off by some business case principles for local implementation. At its core, these are still the objectives.

However, over the period of time it has taken to write it, relentless changes in terms of widespread use of Web 2.0, and subsequent library interest, have occurred. For example, there was a social networking explosion provoked by micro-blogging. ...

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