Check out Stephen Lighthouse’s 30 Library Predictions for 2008. Excellent food for thought here. Some of this is already coming to pass, but none of these predictions are too bold, too preposterous, to not make it read like a veritable laundry list of big issues that will impact the internet and libraries of all types. 

 

The boldest prediction: “Stuff Happens. Libraries don’t operate in a vacuum. We’ll survive.”