Libraries of the Future

While reading through some blogs there are some very interesting points that I would like to talk about.  In "Away from the 'icebergs'" by Rick Anderson, I love that he speaks about how with the age of technology we need to become teachers.  I agree with this wholeheartedly, with more and more technologies coming out every single day someone needs to teach the general public how these work.  There are hundreds of technologies that I do not know about, think about the regular person, the one without a computer who steps into the library for the first time and needs say an employment link, we need to teach them how to find them.  We can teach them to help themselves and there will always be a new line of people needing to be taught, and maybe they can teach you a thing or two also. 

I also like in "To a temporary place in time..." by Dr. Wendy Shultz that she speaks about the fact that reviews can be written for books on Amazon.  This can help an individual decide whether they wish to purchase a book or even read it.  Why not have this option in your library system?  I love it!  People who check out the book can right a review on whether they liked it or not and what they liked about it.  Hopefully with no spoilers, you could even search by what those reviewers also liked, say you love a certain book, and they do too, what other books did they love?  Do you now want to take out this book?  This is hugely beneficial to libraries in a world where we all read at least 10 reviews before we decide to read a book or buy a product.