Libraries will be very different to the traditional libraries of the 20th century and the internet is helping to shape the future library. As Rick Anderson, Director of Resource Acquisition at the University of Nevada states we have to thinking about ways of "integrating our services into [peoples] daily patterns of work, study or play". To do this, we will have to have a good knowledge of web 2.0 to remain relevant to our community. Libraries are often the bridge for those who have no internet access at home or those who are unfamiliar with the internet at all, so this Library 2.0 training will help skill us to assist our communities.

There seems to be more of a move away from traditional print materials to online resources that are accessible 24/7. Libraries will need to be more interactive and less passive and after reading a number of articles, perhaps libraries will be more fiction orientated, with less emphasis on factual information in printed format. My only concern is the issue of historical preservation for future generations, as web technology changes so quickly and sites are forever evolving. With the habit of making everything easily accessible on websites, wikis and blogs, the ability to easily change information with no historical copy being maintained is concerning. The National Library can only archive so much digitally and it would be easy for some documents to be permanently "lost" to future generations.