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When Google announced in December 2004 that it would digitally scan the books of five major research libraries to make their contents searchable, the promise of a universal library was resurrected. Indeed, the explosive rise of the Web, going from nothing to everything in one decade, has encouraged us to believe in the impossible again. Might the long-heralded great library of all knowledge really be within our grasp?

Welcome to the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. We are very happy to be sharing our library with the design and development community. This is our first drop of what we hope to be a monthly release cycle for the publication of patterns. In many cases we have bundled the patterns with pointers to related code from the Yahoo! User Interface Code Library. We hope this is a useful resource and look forward to your feedback.

Yahoo很慷慨的把他們自己使用到的Ajax的>UI 和>>Design Pattern Library用開放原始碼的方式公開，像是自動完成、麵包屑(就是紀錄來時路讓你可以找到回家的路的那些連結)、標籤、分頁、評分等常用的元件，或是一些更基礎的小東西，都可以在裡面找的到，相信對Web 2.0的開發人員會有很大的幫助。另外，Yahoo也開了一個user interface blog，作為和Developer的溝通管道。

The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and AJAX. The UI Library Utilities facilitate the implementation of rich client-side features by enhancing and normalizing the developer's interface to important elements of the browser infrastructure (such as events, in-page HTTP requests and the DOM). The Yahoo UI Library Controls produce visual, interactive user interface elements on the page with just a few lines of code and an included CSS file. All the components in the Yahoo! User Interface Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses.

最近一個月以來，有越來越多人在談論 Library 2.0。如同 web 2.0 一樣，目前還沒有一個明確的定義。但基本的精神是：在圖書館中應用 web 2.0 的技術或服務。