Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon.
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted,
And human love will be seen at its height.
Live in fragments no longer.
Only connect...
(as quoted in "Only Connect"--E. M. Forster In An Age Of Electronic Communication: Computer-Mediated Association And Community Networks
by Mary E. Virnoche and Gary T. Marx
Connection. Community. Conversation. That's what Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 are all about. These cool tech tools are only as good as tools in building community, in enabling conversation between Library and people, between people and people and connecting people to ideas, to knowledge, to each other. That's what libraries have always done (sometimes accidentally or in spite of ourselves) but now these tools make it possible on a different scale, in a different way.
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