Lots of food for thought presented by some experts in the field. Just a side comment, why only one woman listed, and bibliography for Wikipedia also listed few female generated articles. Ladies, why are we always behind in technology?
With embarrassment I will admit that the short summary in Wikopedia was most readable and useful. Tom Storey said the obvious, "The Web moves from simply being sites and search engines to a shared netword space that drives work, research, education, entertainment and social activities..."
My favorite comments were by Rick Anderson who said that"..it no longer makes sense to collect information products as if they were hard to get. They aren't." Best is "We need to focus our efforts not on teaching research skills but on eliminating the barriers that exist between patrons and the information they need, so they can spend as little time as possible wrestling with lousy search interfaces and as much time as possible actually reading and learning." "But if our services can't be used without training, then it's the services that need to be fixed - not our patrons." This is so important, and biggest case in point - e books, and net library. Daily we have patrons with inquiries, who to do this, how to use this service, yet training for librarians is in short supply. Why offer a service if we cannot market it and/or explain the use of it????? One last comment from Mr. Anderson, "We have to be a bit more humble in the current environment and find new ways to bring our services to patrons rather than insisting that they come to us - whether physically or virtually.
I also liked John J. Riemer's words "To better bibliographic services" including broaden relevance ranking, and adopt popular web features of Google and Amazon.
All interesting articles in cluding Dr. Schultz and her take on the future, and Library 4.0.
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