Libraries at the cutting edge - sounds good to me : but please please don't let us forget that Libraries service people and the community in many different ways. Curling up with a laptop just does not have the same feel as settling in with a good book & a glass of red. I agree with Rick Anderson ("Away from the icebergs" : http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/002/2.htm) that seamless user friendly access for patrons of all degrees of cybersavvy are so important in providing such services as digital collections of journals, books, blogs, podcasts - and whatever the future brings. Libraries will never have enough funding for sufficient staff for intense individual assistance or training for those who are struggling up the internet mountain.
Communication gallops on in all life's aspects not just in libraries. (Just watch "Life on Mars" to see how much faster, easier and perhaps invasive communication has become) Last night in I overheard a conversation - a young couple explained to an older woman (younger than me which made me feel better) how easy it will be to record TV programs or watch simultaneous programs with HD TV. Just a click of the remote - won her (& me).
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