Library 22.0: Totally Automated

-- Library Journal, 4/1/2006

The top librarian for Library 22.0 has gone through distance programming and never clanked a foot on campus. True, it might be a robot, but it is a whiz at SuprGlu. It delivers the stuff of Library 22.0, all at the user’s command and 24/7, 365: story hours, lectures, concerts, reference linking. And it never interrupts when someone complains. Want a new ebook to read? Just key in your query and wait for the processing to begin. It’ll even organize those pesky remote community meetings (users agree: why get up from your computer chair when you can interact virtually?). It cleans the coffee bar (even when no one comes to the building). It downloads the latest in computer instruction (go online to get online). It even works with the library’s Friends group (no more bake sales–bring on a new kind of cookie, virtual currency, and a Sally Reed avatar). Won’t it be nice to turn it on and stay home for a change?

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