Comments on: CIL 2008: Mobile Trends (AKA iPhones are Sexy) http://libraryrevolution.com/2008/04/08/cil-2008-mobile-trends-aka-iphones-are-sexy/ The Library Status Quo Must Go! Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:43:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Mark - Productivity501 http://libraryrevolution.com/2008/04/08/cil-2008-mobile-trends-aka-iphones-are-sexy/#comment-1627 Mark - Productivity501 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:18:19 +0000 http://libraryrevolution.com/2008/04/08/cil-2008-mobile-trends-aka-iphones-are-sexy/#comment-1627 I'm curious how you see libraries fitting into a wireless world. Things are changing to where the current generation isn't going to be use to going somewhere for information. I doubt that my daughter is going to think of driving to a video store when she wants to watch a movie in 20 years. I doubt she is going to go to a book store when she wants to buy a book to read. I think one of the ways that libraries can secure a place in the future is by becoming more of a hub for social interaction. If people no longer run into each other at the video store, book store and other places I think there will be more of a need to interact with other people and it seems like this might be an area the library can fill a need. In my small town the bulk of the people in the library at any given time are there using the computers. Mark I’m curious how you see libraries fitting into a wireless world. Things are changing to where the current generation isn’t going to be use to going somewhere for information. I doubt that my daughter is going to think of driving to a video store when she wants to watch a movie in 20 years. I doubt she is going to go to a book store when she wants to buy a book to read.

I think one of the ways that libraries can secure a place in the future is by becoming more of a hub for social interaction. If people no longer run into each other at the video store, book store and other places I think there will be more of a need to interact with other people and it seems like this might be an area the library can fill a need.

In my small town the bulk of the people in the library at any given time are there using the computers.

Mark

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