I just stumbled across something that is important for how Library 2.0 translates to the user. I use Opera as my web browser, while I have difficulties with it from time to time, I like a few of the features such as speed dial. When looking at the RSS feed from the Shifted Librarian page, the bottom of the page had this line: This page was generated by Opera from http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/rss.xml. So I did a little experiment and pasted that URL into Internet Explorer. It displays totally different.
Why is this good to know. If librarians are answering questions for users and are directing them through the web, they might need to know what browser is being used. This semester I've noticed some of the databases I've used do not support Opera. If you were to send someone to the above place and tell them to look up the information in the third column and they were on IE instead of Opera, then they would be lost.
Perhaps there are a few things that need to be part of the reference interview. What browser do you use? Do you have a different browser? Are you on dial up?
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