Web 2.0 + Library = Library 2.0 / What is Library 2.0?

The emerging of new programming languages for the web such as: Java and XML and the integration of it such as: asynchronous Javascript and XML (AJAX)has promised new transformation for more dynamic web applications and more interactive between online users. There are dramatic increases in web usage worldwide, statistics shows more than one billion online hosts out of the entire world population which is six billion, activate on the Internet. New technological advent emerged as result and commonly known by Web 2.0. This assignment will present the definitions and will demonstrate the scholar’s views about Web 2.0. Also, this assignment will cover briefly the states of the Web 2.0 activities in Middle East area, specifically the Gulf Cooperation Countries. At the end the researcher will focus and explore some of the Web 2.0 activities that developed and changed the libraries environment and caused the shifting to what is currently known by the Library 2.0 (L 2.0)