Fw: [Libs-Or] [Fwd: Our future??]

[Ward Price]

You saw it here first?  (I saw this on the Libs-Or mailing list.)

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> This was sent to an OCLC list.  I have been thinking about it and am not
quite sure what to say.  I am curious to know what you might think.
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> Colleagues,
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> At ACRL I learned about an eight-minute streaming video that you may find
> .... well, troubling, pure fantasy, depressing ... interesting.  In any
> case you should probably take the time to view it.  While it is about "the
> press" as we know it today we might see some dangerous similarities to our
> situation in libraries.
>
> The video is called EPIC - <http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/>Evolving
> Personal Information Construct.  (http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/)
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> EPIC is a history of the development of the Web as an information resource
> from the recent past to 2014.  The focus is on what happens to the press
> over this period.
>
> The video begins:
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> It is the best of times.  It is the worst of time.  In the year 2014
people
> have access to a breadth and depth of information unimaginable in an
> earlier age. Everyone contributes in some way.  Everyone participates to
> create a living, breathing mediascape. However ........
>
> What is your reaction? Does this have any relevance for libraries?
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C. Ward Price    Web Librarian
University of Texas-Pan American
http://www.lib.panam.edu/
wprice at panam.edu
(956) 316-7046