Okay. this really impressed me. I love the "feel" of the library and I'm not sure I welcome so much change! I know we have to move ahead with changing technology, but I hope we don't "throw the baby out with the bathwater!" In my advancing years I can appreciate the fact that many people my age and beyond also love the feel of the library and I hope we maintain the comfortable atmosphere as the library morphs into Wendy Schultz" vision - "what would Library 4.0 be like? It will completely connect the digital and the sensual, moving from virtual reality (VR) to augmented reality (AR): all the services of Library 3D projected over our immediate surroundings."
On the other hand, I like what Chip Nilges said concerning "More Powerful Ways to Cooperate" when citing the project Open Worldcat. This has made a huge difference in being able to provide what our patrons are asking for, and even enables them to find obscure items so they come in to us already knowing exactly what they want and where to locate it.
In some ways our job gets easier because our patrons are more informed; but harder, because they are so informed, we have to keep up with them!
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