Comments on: 5.) Trends to Watch in 2010 – Bookless Libraries http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2009/12/5-trends-to-watch-in-2010-bookless-libraries/ Challenging your thinking, pushing your imagination, creating the future Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:12:55 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bookless Libraries | The League of Ordinary Gentlemen http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2009/12/5-trends-to-watch-in-2010-bookless-libraries/comment-page-1/#comment-4496 Bookless Libraries | The League of Ordinary Gentlemen Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:20:52 +0000 http://www.futuristspeaker.com/?p=936#comment-4496 [...] are the sorts of arguments the experts make. I’d like to link to an argument that “in less than 20 years most libraries will no longer have traditional books in them”. The writer is a “futurist” who serves as a consultant to libraries and universities, [...] [...] are the sorts of arguments the experts make. I’d like to link to an argument that “in less than 20 years most libraries will no longer have traditional books in them”. The writer is a “futurist” who serves as a consultant to libraries and universities, [...]

]]> By: Pam Murphy http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2009/12/5-trends-to-watch-in-2010-bookless-libraries/comment-page-1/#comment-3826 Pam Murphy Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:44:22 +0000 http://www.futuristspeaker.com/?p=936#comment-3826 I graduated with an MLS in 1987. There will still be a demand for printed volumes as not all people will be comfortable with the digital volume. This will be particularly true of the non-digital native. As the population becomes younger on average, the favor will shift towards the digital provision of books. Libraries will need to adjust and do so quickly. Vendors will need to create contracts for providing digital materials via libraries to their customers. As public libraries are seen as a smaller share of the market, this will need to be encouraged for the vendors to create this opening in the market. Libraries will shortly have the opportunity to re-engineer their services that is unprecedented and, potentially more challenging than adding automated services to their marketing mix which has occurred for the past two decades. I look forward to this reinvention of libraries as a service commodity. I graduated with an MLS in 1987. There will still be a demand for printed volumes as not all people will be comfortable with the digital volume. This will be particularly true of the non-digital native. As the population becomes younger on average, the favor will shift towards the digital provision of books. Libraries will need to adjust and do so quickly.

Vendors will need to create contracts for providing digital materials via libraries to their customers. As public libraries are seen as a smaller share of the market, this will need to be encouraged for the vendors to create this opening in the market.

Libraries will shortly have the opportunity to re-engineer their services that is unprecedented and, potentially more challenging than adding automated services to their marketing mix which has occurred for the past two decades. I look forward to this reinvention of libraries as a service commodity.

]]> By: Jerry E. Stephens http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2009/12/5-trends-to-watch-in-2010-bookless-libraries/comment-page-1/#comment-3820 Jerry E. Stephens Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:45:08 +0000 http://www.futuristspeaker.com/?p=936#comment-3820 I have mixed feelings about the "bookless library." I do believe you are on to a quickening trend. I've been a librarian for more than 40 years (with a 1968 M.A.L.Sc. degree). Until about 5 years ago, I would have resisted the notion of such a library world, maybe even seeing it as an overly sterile environment. But the pace has developed to the point that well before 2010 the first photograph will be more the norm than second. I do, however, believe there will still be libraries with significant book collections. Some of these will be older books. Some new books will remain in paper formats. The library will change. You've addressed other ways that libraries will operate. These libraries will still require trained and talented professionals to help library users find just the information desired at the moment wanted. This is what librarians have always done. I have mixed feelings about the “bookless library.” I do believe you are on to a quickening trend. I’ve been a librarian for more than 40 years (with a 1968 M.A.L.Sc. degree). Until about 5 years ago, I would have resisted the notion of such a library world, maybe even seeing it as an overly sterile environment. But the pace has developed to the point that well before 2010 the first photograph will be more the norm than second. I do, however, believe there will still be libraries with significant book collections. Some of these will be older books. Some new books will remain in paper formats. The library will change. You’ve addressed other ways that libraries will operate. These libraries will still require trained and talented professionals to help library users find just the information desired at the moment wanted. This is what librarians have always done.

]]> By: Correspondence.org - What’s Hot Week (Dec 27, 2009) http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2009/12/5-trends-to-watch-in-2010-bookless-libraries/comment-page-1/#comment-3805 Correspondence.org - What’s Hot Week (Dec 27, 2009) Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:56:28 +0000 http://www.futuristspeaker.com/?p=936#comment-3805 [...] Intriguing Predictions from Futurist Thomas Frey - Trends to Watch in 2010 – Bookless Libraries [...] [...] Intriguing Predictions from Futurist Thomas Frey - Trends to Watch in 2010 – Bookless Libraries [...]

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