15# web 2.0, library 2.0 & future of libraries

I get completely overwhelmed at the whole imformation revolution and feel like I would have been much better suited to working in a library in say 1960!!!!!! You know I'm the person who still thinks it's cool to surf the web and I realise most 8yr olds are already way past this level, uploading songs to their i-pods, organising frequently visited sites into favourties, creating images on calendars for Grandma etc. I'm not sure how I can possibly keep up and be a relevant library officer, providing guidance and passing all this new information onto patrons when I'm not using any of it in my daily life. I got quite depressed reading about the future of libraries as being one big technological rollercoaster............I long for the quiet solitude, cup of coffee, good engaging stories in a book that Wendy Shultz talked about. I'll meet her there in that library when we all go full circle....or is that mad?