Week 6: #15 Library 2.0

Change has been going on from the beginning of time.
Genesis 1:14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years,
Genesis 8:22 "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."
Without change, life would get rather boring and tedious. Sure change is difficult at times but GET OVER IT! I feel that HCPL is really making an effort to meet the needs of all generations, even the Millennial Generation (those born between 1984 and 2002, and own the world of technology).
I read all the articles from this section, in addition to a number of others, but "Away from Icebergs" spoke more to me and I was reminded of a video that was offered for training hours at our branch last year. I can't remember the exact title but it made reference to the library being like the ever-changing course of a mighty river, that video made me look at change in the library in a very different way.
Change is not a bad thing, but change is needful for we humans. Getting used to change requires some of us a little more time than others.
Library 2.0 is a term that has been created to describe the ever-changing library that is striving to meet the needs of an ever-changing community in an ever-changing world. The library system that existed when I began working for HCPL, no longer exists. Technology has made it necessary for us to change. If we had not made the changes we would be like an 8-track stereo cassette in the twenty-first century. Does anyone in the millennial generation know what that was?
I am glad for this:
Malachi 3:6 "I the LORD do not change. Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? James 1:17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.