Stuck in web 2.0 with a giant rss feed coming to eat me!

One of the concepts that was touched upon in a few of the perspectives was how a librarian would evolve along with technology. Wendy Schultz put forth the idea of "collecting librarians" in order have them help one locate, compare, and provide perspective on information. That's an interesting concept, with less and less emphasis on having a print collection, librarians might the only type of employee from a library that would still have a job in that sort of world. Ohhhh, you self-serving librarians. JOKING. Or am I??

I think we're a long way from printed material and library services being obsolete because one of the principal reasons people use the libraries that wasn't touched upon is that its an affordable way to for people to access information. A lot of people still don't have computers, and the library is the best place to find what one is looking for. As internet computers have been integrated into the library experience there has already been some shift in how we help patrons. Customers increasingly need help with computer, and internet applications, like how to write a resume...or play Halo (which I am really curious about...where are all those kids playing the first Halo for free at?).

The question is, when print collections do become obsolete..how will the library distribute and purchase materials? With the shift to completely digital information we would no longer have an issue with limited collections, thus we wouldn't have to impose limited loan periods. Yet as we do live in a capitalist society (which maybe with all this economic bailout bussiness we're finally learning a lesson about having a free market) there is an issue of copyrighted material. Obviously publishers wouldn't be happy about libraries purchasing materials once, and than distributing them an unlimited number of times, for indefinite periods.
This problem already comes up in a way: a lot of kids ask how to download songs with file sharing programs..which I guess we're probably not supposed to do. So i think it would be necessary for the library to get involved with digital music, and other multimedia in someway..or another. Not that I care...you capitalists.....