New Concept for Borders Bookstores

Using technology to enhance the customer experience at the "Headquarters for Knowledge and Entertainment"
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6533013.html?q=borders

http://www.bgimediacenter.com/ConceptMediaRoom.html

Borrowed Time: How do you build a public library in the age of Google?

Slide Show Essay by Witold Rybczynski

http://www.slate.com/id/2184927

Libraries Extinct by 2020?

Ross Dawson, a business consultant who tracks different customs, devices, and institutions on what he calls an Extinction Timeline, predicts that libraries will disappear in 2019. "He's probably right as far as the function of the library as a civic monument, or as a public repository for books, is concerned. On the other hand, in its mutating role as urban hangout, meeting place, and arbiter of information, the public library seems far from spent. This has less to do with the digital world—or the digital word—than with the age-old need for human contact."

http://www.rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2007/10/extinction_time.html

Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World

http://www.oclc.org/reports/sharing/default.htm