Following on my post from yesterday about Eric Lease Morgan’s paper on the “Next Generation” of the Library Catalog, Roy Tennant has an article in Library Journal calling for rapid change (as in: “fix them soon”) in the primary information discovery tools provided by libraries. Though uses the term “Library 2.0,” I see this as part of a larger movement that recognizes that traditional library models for information discovery, access, and use are inadequate for most users….

Library Journal – Fixing Library Discovery
Whether you are an early adopter such as NCSU of new opportunities, or are content to wait for library vendors to provide the next generation of finding tools, it’s clear that how library users will find information at a library is in a period of rapid change. This is a good thing, since library finding tools are mostly broken, particularly when compared to finding tools offered by companies such as Google and Amazon. We must fix them—and soon.

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