Re: Hmm - LITA Announces Top Technology Trends for 2000!

[Chris Gray <cpgray@library.uwaterloo.ca>]

I'd have to agree with you, Jeremy.  The list reads like they got bogged
down worrying about getting people who are actually facing backwards to
turn around.  I think they missed at least two important trends:  embedded
technology and Web applications.

Chris Gray
University of Waterloo


On Fri, 12 May 2000, Frumkin, Jeremy wrote:

> LITA has just announce it's "Top Technology Trends for Libraries: Y2K". I
> thought I'd forward these to the lists, to see if people have any thoughts
> on them. I'm a bit confused as to what constitutes tech. trends here - for
> instance, it seems that trend #1 assumes that libraries are either unaware
> of the internet or against it. Is this really a trend for the year 2000? Of
> the trends listed, only trends 3 and 5 seem relevant and forward-thinking
> (with trend 6 really being a subset of 3). Nowhere does it talk about
> libraries building technical skills within their organizations, nor does it
> talk about concepts such as Open Source as relates to traditional library
> functions and values.
> 
> I seriously wonder how some of these trends get picked.....
> 
> -- Jeremy