Library 2.0: The 21st century web based library services

The information needs by library users are more comprehensive and unlimited. The advancement of the technology in past several years has enabled libraries to create new services those did never exist before. This paper defines Library 2.0 as “the applications of interactive, collaborative and web-based technologies to web-based library services and collections,” and suggests the definition adopted by the library science community. It suggests that recent thinking and describing the changing the role of library in 21st century as Web 2.0 will have substantial implications for libraries, and recognizes that while these implications keep very close to the history and mission of libraries, they still necessity of a new paradigm for librarianship in recent era.