Inspiring glimpses into the future of the Library.
Library 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...steps along the way to the complete learning/information/knowledge experience. (Bold formatting doesn't seem to work)
I like the description of the actual library space as "emotional/irrational/theatrical/participatory" (TBC) - look at how users access, consume and create content
Moving from VR - vitual reality, to AR - augmented reality - the services of Library projected onto/into immediate surrounds - which means what exactly - a sci-fi dream with voice-controlled holograms floating in space?
'The Long Tail' - Amazon employee description: "We sold more books today that didn't sell at all yesterday than we sold today of all the books that did sell yesterday."
ie unusual and one-off items may exceed in demand the well-worn and 'popular' - message for libraries is to cater to the unusual, extreme, hard-to-get, just as much as the common/popular.
Library's 'incarnations' - storage, data retrieval, commentary and annotation.
New perspectives: the collection will be infinite - all there online
refinement of search engines, simplification of software, and user-ed, to lead users directly to the information they want
Library services to be web-based
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