The blog for the 2020 Vision Futures Conference has been a truly thought-provoking place inspired by and created by the Steering Committee for the Idaho Library Futures Conference. Now that the 2020 Vision has been identified and is being incorporated into the work of the Idaho library community and the Idaho Commission for Libraries, it is time to bid farewell to this space as an independent blog.

We would like to invite the readers of this blog to join the conversation over at the Idaho Commission for Libraries blog. There we hope to carry on this conversation about the future of libraries, the 2020 Vision, and delivering libraries services in digital environments. We look forward to seeing you at the ICFL Blog.

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Here is an article recently published on the Red Herring site (from the April 10th print issue) — The Future of the Internet: in a decade, the Net will dig deeper into our lives*.

An excerpt: “If Mr. Cerf and about two dozen other pundits Red Herring interviewed about the future of the Internet are right, in 10 years’ time the barriers between our bodies and the Internet will blur as will those between the real world and virtual reality.”

Elaine Watson

Hi all - thanks for participanting and blogging! The winner of the drawing for the iTunes card is Leslie McCombs at Ada Community Library. Now if someone would just buy her an MP3 player to go with it ;) Glenna Rhodes, Boise Public Library.

Libraries have always wooed particular segments of their community. Sometimes it is a conscious effort done by assessing who the library needs to connect with so they can create a mutually beneficial relationship (the small business community, for example). Or libraries may offer a traditional slate of services that may or may not match their community needs and consequently may not create strong library advocates.

Professionally, and personally, I would always advocate making conscious choices but first we need some facts! To better understand digital natives and have them become our next generation of library stakeholders check out the website listed below. (Thank you Marcia Beckwith, Boise School District, for sharing this site.)