[Web4lib] Future of libraries

[Joyce Latham]

Indeed, I think we've become so focused on discussing the future of libraries that we are not engaging with the present tense of libraries, and the answer to the question of the future is inherent in the choices we make now ... if our current choices are focused on the correct objectives, I think the future will be assured, because it will flow out of what we already understand .... how's that for getting meta-physical?
 
Joyce M. Latham, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Onondaga County Public Library


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   1. Re: At Session on the Future of Libraries, a Sense (Nancy)


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Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 22:10:54 -0500
From: "Nancy" <nancy at thesmudge.com>
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] At Session on the Future of Libraries, a Sense
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> The first sentence of the LJ report on this ALA panel discussion reads:
> "...had a lot to say about how libraries and librarians need to move
> forward now."
>
>  ...Haven't we been talking about the future of libraries for years?
> Haven't there been countless programs at past ALA conferences dealing with
> the future of libraries?
>
> Bernie Sloan

Sadly, it seems very few of us realize that we've been living the same day
over and over again for what must be decades by now.

Nancy E. Sosna Bohm
Reference Librarian
Lake Forest College






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