The first one, by Rick Anderson, was titled Away from Icebergs. In his article he talks about there being three icebergs that are barriers to libraries moving forward in the future.
The first iceberg is the "Just in case" collection. Here he is referring to how libraries used to be when collections were only available in print format. Patrons will now expect to access everything - from digital collections of journals, books, blogs and podcasts.
The second one is "Reliance on User Education". Don't ask yourself how are we going to train all of the patrons. But rather focus on eliminating the barriers that exist between patrons and the information they need.
The last iceberg is the "Come to us" model of library service. We have to find new ways to bring our services to patrons rather than them coming to us, that is, on the Web and in their daily patterns of work, study and play.
I found Rick Anderson's comments on the 'iceberg barriers' to be quite accurate in how libraries need to adapt themselves in order to remain relevant to and meet the needs of future patrons.
The other article I read was titled To a temporary place in time, written by Dr Wendy Schultz.
In this article Dr Schultz talks about the library experience of the future and discusses it under the following headings:
- Library 1.0 Commodity
- Library 2.0 Product
- Library 3.0 Web 3D to Library 3D Services
- Library 4.0 The Neo-Library Experience
In the last one (Library 4.0) she sees libraries as mind gyms, idea laboratories, as art salons and also as knowledge spas.
I found this article very futuristic and look forward to seeing it put into practice!
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