Meeting in Maryland

I attended the Maryland Sirsi Users Group’s first annual meeting. The keynote speaker was Sirsi’s VP of Innovation Stephen Abram. The talk was very informative and left me with many things to think about. I would recommend checking out the Googlezon video; do a search for it as any link I put up may not be there by the time it is used. One term that stuck with me is the, “browserless world.” When we get to the point where the net is so ubiquitous and all of our information is interlinked we will have entered a new world. The scary part is what this world will be used for. Will it be for profit, for enlightenment, for blackmail? We won’t know until we are there, but at the very least the library must work to keep its place in this world, and maybe even being at the forefront of its inception.