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"The future is already here," William Gibson has said, "it's just unevenly distributed.".(libraries)(Editorial)(Brief article)
"The future is already here," William Gibson has said, "it's just unevenly distributed." What will libraries look like in 2010? Unlike some futurists, this issue doesn't propose any radical building or staffing changes. Instead, we foresee that the biggest change will be push vs. pull. Instead of assuming that users will come into the building (they might) or to the library web site (not unless they must), Karen Coombs tells how the University of Houston Libraries read the reports and made some bold strategic steps. Dorothea Salo poses sharp questions about what messages libraries send to users by their design, physical and virtual. And Beth Evans describes how Brooklyn College Library dove head-first into MySpace, ...
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