Rick Anderson: "Libraries are poorly equipped and insufficiently staffed for teaching. Ask yourself what your patron-to-librarian ratio is ..."
http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/002/2.htm
Michael Stephens: "Librarian 2.0, then, is the “strategy guide” for helping users find information, gather knowledge and create content."
http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/002/3.htm
Dr. Wendy Schultz: "Library 3.0 "...People will collect librarians rather than books"
Dr. Wendy Schultz: "Library 4.0, the neo-library: This will be the library for the aesthetic economy, the dream society, which will need libraries as mind gyms; libraries as idea labs; libraries as art salons ... Library 4.0 will add a new mode, knowledge spa: meditation, relaxation, immersion in a luxury of ideas and thought"
http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/002/6.htm
-- these were the quotes that jumped out at me as I read the 2.0 readings. Sometimes I see clear analogies to the '80s scare that videos would mean the loss of movie theaters ---but then there are big layoffs at our performing arts center and I realize people are staying home. There are always those Harold Hill sorts who will be singing a song about how "we got trouble" - but as in all things balance. According to our statistics, NLC Reference services have steadily increased in the past few years, imeaning people need now more than ever, teachers to help them navaigate all the new vistas of technology. It will always be our job to be information hip and ahead of the crowd. When Rick Anderson talks about lack of library/patron ratio - I think that only applies to classrooms but make no mistake, we're still teaching, just on the spot in fits and starts. I really like the library 4.0 definition above . In the year 2015, I'd like to change my job title to Minder of the Mind Gym or Art Salon Curator or Information Master of Meditation.
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