Res XV

In some ways I think Library2.0 is a great thing. So many people these days work, shop and play via their computer and the internet, that it is almost unthinkable that that the library not be apart of that. On the other hand, there are still thousands of people who do not have the internet, who do not know how to use a computer, and who want nothing to do with either. How do we support both? I think the next few years are going to be difficult, not only for the library and its collection, but also for the library's customers. We will all have to adapt to a new way of doing things, teachers will have to realize that an on-line encyclopedia is just as good as the on the shelf kind, and we as librarians will have to think up new ways of getting real books into the hands of those who only read blogs.