The slides are available at http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/04/10/the-future-of-libraries/
Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet Project, runs through the seven questions libraries need to address as they consider future services and their role for their patrons and communities, at the Texas Library Association's Annual Conference <http://www.txla.org/annual-conference> . He describes how project research about the changing role of technology in people's lives affects the kinds of issues librarians need to address as they experience the disruptions of technology change. The seven questions libraries need to address are: 1) What is the future of knowledge? 2) What is the future of pathways to knowledge (reference expertise)? 3) What is the future of public technology and community anchor institutions? 4) What is the future of learning "spaces"? 5) What is the future of attention (and its structural holes)? 6) What is the franchise? 7) Where do you fit on the dashboard? ALA's "Confronting the Future" Rush Brandis California State Library
