In this high-tech, fast-paced world libraries need to keep up with evolving technologies. Customer demands are placing new challenges in obtaining information. The articles I read were "Into a New World of Librarianship" by Michael Stephens, which said the library is 'human'. This means it is a socially and emotionally engaging center for learning.
The second article was "Away From the Icebergs" by Rick Anderson. In this he outlined three icebergs, or potential disasters, if libraries continue their current path. We should not hold on to "just in case collections," we need to promote reliance on user education (teach patrons the technology), and we need to develop a "come to us" model of library service. This means we need to bring our services to the people, not having them come into a building for us.
The third article was "To Better Bibliographic Services" by John Riemer. This article was over my head, but did cite that we need to avoid duplications of records and spoke of an "Open WorldCat" project.
So, libraries need to become trend-setters and help the public to keep up with quickly-changing technology. This means they must embrace Web 2.0 tools of reading/writing webstyle and providing useful websites.
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