Thoughts

Okay, so, because spring break is just a few days away, my mind is totally already on ADD MTV generation mindset, so I'm just writing in this journal cause it's something else to do..yay, doesn't that make you happy kind readers.
Traci and I were discussing the future of libraries the other day (not jsut out of the blue, but it was part of a paper we had to write) and we were elaborating on what we see as technology of the future and guess what we decided?
Does everybody remember Back to the Future? Come on, admit it,despite how much the third one really dived, those first two caught your interest...well, libraries of the future will have the librarians traverse the reference floor on hovercrafts. You know you thought it was cool when Michael J,. Fox was playing the hero on that train with the hovercraft to save him....you know you wanna see an older woman with a bun and glasses tooling around on one of those things - course our version is superquiet, like your superquiet vacumn cleaner, so as not to disturb the serious reading patrons.
Remember the last time you used the drive up window at the bank, you put your check or whatever into that little container and it gets sucked up into the bank by a secret power of physics? well, libraries of the future will have those to deliver books to patrons that have been held for them :) wouldn't that be neat - our version would be padded though - so as to minimize the impact ot the book - or as christa warns (from jake's preservation class) undue stress on a book spine will NOT help the book to stay in good condition.
as for other thoughts on the library of the future stay tunned...
in a galaxy far far away...