Thing # 15

The “just in case” collection - Gloom and Doom? Maybe not! Rick Anderson suggests that as librarians we cling to our print collections "just in case." He bemoans the librarians reluctance to change...it is hard to be a digital immigrant in a digital native world!

Reliance on user education - The Light at the End of the Tunnel? The librarian's role as teacher is often overlooked. Anderson emphasizes that the need for for teaching and an increase in the number of properly trained librarians is a necessity in the library of the future!

The “come to us” model of library service - I'll meet you in the wiki - Reversing the concept of librarians waiting for patrons. He feels for librarians to be viable in the future we need to find a way to go to the patrons and meet them in their own digital environment.

I don't necessarily agree with at least two of the three points, bu then, what do I know? I am new at this. However, what is the back-up system when the power goes out? There is an assumption that the lights and the Internet will always be available?

To a temporary place in time

I like Wendy Schultz! She has a sense of place and time! She has a positive approach to libraries and librarians. She has a sense of history and a sense of the library's position in the scheme of our society, and appreciates that position! Her descriptions of the history of libraries into categories Library 1.0 - Library 4.0 provides a n educated and resposible descritpion of what libraries were, what they are and what they will become! I will defintely TAG this site, refer to it often, and see how well the oracle does!