Bringing together those creating, organizing, & distributing knowledge worldwide

Why Global Library 2.0 Week...?

First of all, it's a global world.

We are in a hyper-evolving, technically disruptive, open-ended global information environment -the ways in which knowledge and culture are being created, organized, preserved, distributed, and delivered around and within the world, are fundamentally different from the ways of the past - the ways around which many of our institutions were created...

As Librarians, we lead people, we manage resources, and we are stewards of the world's knowledge. We have a strong ethical and activist history. We are the people who protect citizens freedom of access to information and speech. And we have many responsibilities, and even more ethical obligations in this regard. Our future, and the future of libraries, lies in our ability to build and lead new models, new institutions, and new knowledge networks. And we need to build them...all over the world, we have started...Join Us.

Take one week, even just part of a week, and open yourself to the possibilites of the future...No matter what the size of your library, or its focus, you are now global...

Participate in the larger, global library and information community...

Whether you are a newbie, an uber tech geek, or somewhere in between...whether you are a librarian, an educator, a blogger, part of the citizen's media movement, a wikipedian, a lawyer, an I.T. guy, a student...and/or anything else...any age, anywhere in the world...

Take part. Participate. Create. Connect. Self-Organize. Share. Learn.

And if you are fully immersed in new media already...bring someone else on board...and spread the word...