A new role for libraries? Points to reflect on:
- “Libraries must also manage content that is unbound from any sort of identifiable container.”
- “Research suggests that end users see the most important role for their libraries as making content available in the user’s digital workspace, regardless of what devices are in that space.”
- “This new world is abundant and unstructured, but contextual mechanisms for navigating and synthesizing the information commons are scarce, even in—perhaps especially in—libraries. “We are drowning in information but are starving for knowledge. Information is only useful when it can be located and synthesized into knowledge.”53
- “What is needed is context. We no longer lack content but we do lack context. There are plenty of efforts being made to address this gap by companies that see the need and, quite rightly, we predict, see the context challenge as the next ‘big thing.’ A contextual search tool might work like an invisible librarian, searching the Web and bringing back, in real time, news, book and article links, relevant Web sites, and any documents and e-mails related to the topic on the searcher’s computing devices.”
OCLC. Information Format Trends: Content, Not Containers. (2004)
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