Three of the articles I read evoked a reaction in me upon reading them. In the first, "Away from Icebergs", there are some things that I definitely agree with, and several that I do not. I believe that we need to move away from the library as a "fixed" collection of items in a single room, and we need to view the "library" with a much wider view, both in terms of the collection itself and the physical space. In my school, my "library" encompasses both the physical collection that we own, but also the entire collections of all of the libraries in Pennsylvania through our state-wide resource sharing progam, ACCESS PENNSYLANIA, as well as the entire web and all of the information contained thereon. I truly believe that we are educating information-enriched students. Where I part company with Mr. Anderson is the concept that we don't need "physical books" - I believe that people will always read books, and that they will also always need a real human being to connect them with good reads and good information, and with the wealth of technical know-how with which they can use all kinds of emerging technologies.
I can also relate to Dr. Schultz's vision of Libraries 4.0 - that is the ideal, to me, of where libraries will be in the future - encompassing the best of all possible library worlds.
The third article with which I can relate is Mr. Bishop's "A Ripple Effect", because my library is currently in the process of developing, and hopefully, developing along the same lines as the one discussed in this article. We are doing many of the same things he describes in this article, and we are seeing great results.
It is very interesting to contemplate the future of libraries in the light of Web 2.0 technologies. With this course, I am learning just how useful all of these technologies can be for a student audience.
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