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Thinking Forward: Trends Shaping Public Libraries.
September 2004
Panelists shared their thinking beyond today and envisioned how the public library might be doing business in five years, or ten. Based on an OCLC environmental scan, “Pattern Recognition,” George Needham, Vice President of Member Services at OCLC led a discussion about dominant trends emerging on the social, economic and technology landscapes, and the impacts they could have on the work of public libraries. The “reaction panel” was comprised of Dr. Robert Martin, Director, Institute for Museum and Library Services; Mike Crandall, Technology Manager for the U.S. Libraries Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Ginnie Cooper, Executive Director, Brooklyn Public Library; and Mona Carmack, County Librarian, Johnson County Library, shared their foresight, looking at how the value and work of public libraries could be affected and change.