READING # 3

The Future of LibrariesBeginning the Great Transformation

The article starts off talking about how Leonardo Da Vinci when he died left behind the world’s largest collection of art which was not discovered until 400 hundred years later. The art collection that he left behind consisted of many drawings, sketches, and paintings. Many Da Vinci’s collections are stored and preserved in Libraries. The role of libraries has always been to be an archive of manuscripts, art, and any important documents. “The library was the center of information revered by most because each contained the foundational building blocks of information for all humanity.” The n article then talks about Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press, and how it was a printing revolution and where over 500,000 books were published. This was a turning point in the evolution of libraries. The article then goes from talking about libraries in ancient times to modern day time and how advance and easy information is able to be accessed. Then there are ten key trends that are affecting the development of libraries in the future. I will list a few descriptions of the trends, so you are able to have a feel for the next generation of libraries. There is a time line of everything from the telegraph in 1844 to the invention of podcasting in 2004.Technology just keeps growing and it always will. An example they use in the article is how we have gone from 8 track players to cassettes to CD’s. Information is growing globally. Information is a “Wildfire” being spread around the world. It is continuously growing.
This is an interesting article about libraries. It is an article that makes learning about libraries more interesting and fun. Throughout this article I enjoyed seeing how libraries, information and technology just keep expanding and growing. They become more advanced every year. I can only imagine what libraries will look like and what we will be able to do with technology in the next ten to twenty years.