Chaotic Transitions

Abstract

Marshall Keys’ entertaining presentation serves as an inspiring and thought-provoking stroll down today’s technological trends and how they will impact libraries down the road. His examination of chaotic transitions within users, information technology and information seeking provides tremendous insights into the changes libraries will need to undertake in order to successfully serve the next generation of library users. Only by transforming ourselves to handle the needs of emerging users will we be successful in the future. These emerging users value community over privacy, want to be able to personalize the technology they use, and carry more technology in their pockets than libraries provided users just a few years ago.