Among the articles on the future of libraries, the one by Dr. Wendy Schultz, "To a temporary place in time...", was the one that resonated with me, because it highlighted the human element connected with libraries. "Libraries are not just collections of documents and books, they are conversations, they are convocations of people, ideas, and artifacts in dynamic exchange. Libraries are not merely in communities: they are communities: they preserve and promote community memories; they provide mentors not only for the exploration of stored memory, but also for the creation of new artifacts of memory...Librarians today are not just inventory management biobots: they are people with a unique understanding of the documents they compile and catalog and the relationships among those documents."
This is a hopeful sign to me that perhaps in the midst of all the razzle-dazzle of WEB 2.0 this human connection will not be lost.