Abstract
Web 2.0 technologies and the emergence of social network sites have changed the speed and interfaces through which research is conducted, making collaboration and sharing easier and more intuitive than ever before. Facebook-style services aimed at engineers offer new ways to rapidly identify potential collaborators solve specific problems and build networks of like-minded individuals. Given the widespread adoption of these new tools, this paper explores some of the main features of these Web 2.0 technologies with regard to information literacy competencies and the role of the librarian in ensuring students are prepared for the processes of knowledge retrieval and decision-making, skills which characterize the information literate engineer.
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