Missing the blogs for the ebooks

The future for public libraries is not collection but curation of information sources – not in the simplistic manner of a Scoop.it account, but in a robust and personalised way.  When our members ask for recommendations or assistance we should be able and willing to direct them to a range of publications from physical books and traditional journals to whole blogs, individual posts and even perhaps Twitter accounts and the like.  Just because ‘its all online’ doesn’t mean people won’t need help to find it or know about it.  The need to organise information in a meaningful way doesn’t diminish in a post-paper environment, and neither does the desire to discover new ideas.  Curation and assisted discovery will take new forms as we bring together speakers, hands-on learning, online information and interactive storytelling.  Librarians who ignore these opportunities are unlikely to have a future.  Those who embrace them now should expect an exciting one.