So, here's quite a topic for our first Blog entry: The future of libraries. I'd like to thank whomever suggested it for making me think about it and do a little research. Thinking about the future of libraries can be scary. After all, will we still have jobs? Will we want those jobs? My one day of thought and research on the subject by no means makes me an expert, but it does make me a little clearer on the topic.
A few years ago a colleague who was working for NYU's Digital Library department explained that in the future, the digital library would be run in a way analogous to the non-digital library, and that Access Services would handle access to the digital library. At the time I liked this explanation, because it gave me some small sense of what I might be doing in the future. Now I'm not so sure. I'm not sure it's what we'll be doing in Access Services, and if it is, I'm not sure I like it.
I found this 10 minute video on the future of libraries that I thought speculated on our future as well as anyone possibly can.
After all, things are moving so quickly it's hard to predict what technology might offer next year, let alone 5 to 10 years down the line.
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