Wow another month has flown by and its been busy, busy, busy throughout Australian library blogland. The month began with LINT getting into the spirit of Australian Library Week by running a competition which started off as Get creative in May and soon became Your Library in 2010. Although we only had a few entries [...]

Here’s another entry in our Library 2010 competition. Andrew Finegan‘s Libraries in 2010 . Enjoy.

I see a dark future…flickering in the candlelight. A dsytopic paradise with electricity a luxury not a right. Illuminators (no, I’m not a tracer!) working hard to ensure everyone has a copy of the current book on their desktop. Advanced delivery mechanisms guarantee article delivery in mere months across a drought stricken land. The Water [...]

So you would like to hear my vision of my library in 2010? My first reaction is that its only three years away – not long at all, I had better get busy. I am new to my current position and this is my attempt at thinking through my first three year plan. My vision [...]

[Prelude: Thanks to CW for telling me about this post from LINT, and Peta for inviting me to "get creative for May". I've slightly revised this earlier post, i.e. rewrote the introduction, added section headings, and a part on "Would there be librarians..."] My vision of future library spaces was inspired by a video by [...]

While we’re gazing toward 2010, here is an amazing 7 minute video of the Transformation Lab experiment in a Danish Library that transforms one library space into many possible library futures. My favourite bit is the “questions floor”, where library users can answer questions projected onto the library floor via their mobile phones. Alane at [...]

My vision of library services is a vision of partnership, between librarians, clients, patrons and stakeholders. We began as gatekeepers, progressed to intermediaries, and are now in the era of ‘value-added information’. In the future, the transition to partnership, where we really should be, will be realised. Academic librarians will partner in the academy by [...]

Here’s my doodle of the way I’d like to see our academic library in 2010. Tell us your vision for your library in 2010 and you can win a signed copy of Meredith Farkas’ new book Social Software in Libraries. Academic Library 2010 uploaded onFlickr May 12, 2007 by sirexkat

To get the ball rolling and get some inspiration going for our “Get creative for May competition“, the Libraries Interact team is going to share some of its vision for the future of libraries (at least until 2010). Here I am sharing where I think my library, which is a public library, will be in [...]