I read Michael Stephens’ Into a new world of librarianship and the Wikipedia article Library 2.0 about the next generation of librarians and the services they offer patrons. We are quickly approaching the “brave new world” of future libraries: user-friendly, patron-centered, collaborative, interactive facilities that go beyond the four walls of the traditional library: it reaches into cyberspace and the needs of the community. The 21st century learning resource center is not only technologically based, but now patrons help decide the needs and expenditures of their library. What a utopian ideal! Wherever he is, I’m sure Aldous Huxley is smiling.
School libraries, unfortunately, will take longer than public libraries to embrace this notion of a modern, interactive library because of curriculum and funding constraints.
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