Comments on: Will libraries disappear in 2019? https://rossdawson.com/will_libraries/ Keynote speaker | Futurist | Strategy advisor Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:57:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: kanaka https://rossdawson.com/will_libraries/#comment-294 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:57:38 +0000 http://rd.wpram.com/?p=479#comment-294 Libraries might ahnge their format which is a dire need. Performance of the libraries in a new environment will make the job respectable. All these can happen only in an envvironment whrere the syllbi is time related. kanaka

]]> By: Jessica https://rossdawson.com/will_libraries/#comment-293 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:58:18 +0000 http://rd.wpram.com/?p=479#comment-293 As someone who has worked in several different kinds of libraries over the past decade, I think that the prediction might be true in some cases and not true in others. Harvard’s stacks aren’t going anywhere.

As for your local public library branch, which has become in the last decade a low-rent Internet cafe without the cafe? It might not be around in 2019. I think academic libraries will become more like museums…the big ones will get bigger and wealthier and do ever more innovative things, and the little ones will probably hang on as study spaces.

But public libraries, corporate libraries, and some special libraries (government, medical, law, etc.) will be reevaluated constantly as digital database products continue to expand their holdings.

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