I think it is time for public libraries to become more adventurous in the technological world, as I believe we need to be dynamic and remain at the forefront of technology and not slip behind. I think libraries as they are now could well fade away unless we metamorphose ourselves with Web 2.0 and have some of these technologies being incorporated within libraries in an integral and what may well be an invisible way.
However we can't just accept everything holus bolus, but will have to learn to step carefully between the technologies - willingly embracing ones which can help public libraries and the people who use them and rejecting the others.
Also technologies that are simple to use and explain are important - and they are the ones that I have seen as most beneficial in the Learning 2.0 training. I think technologies and printed books can co-exist - I believe it will be a long time before books as we know them disappear - but there will be other formats as well.
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