From Guttenberg to Google

My first session of 2011 Annual Virtual Conference was "From Guttenberg to Google and Glogs, From Books to Vooks". Must admit I enjoyed the session very much and agree with the speakers that we live "in a revolutionary time for libraries". To transfer from books to digital is not an easy process. It raises a lot of questions: What digital resourses should libraries use? How to catalogue these amazing new products? How will they circulate? When to buy print and when Ebooks? etc. There were some cautios warnings expressed too: the libraries are focused on devices more than on books; loosing the richness of the cover art; creating information surrogates; wasting the budgest on things which soon may be replaced. You can download 75 books on the Kindle for one patron only whlie 75 print books will be checked out by 75 patrons. An we can anderstand all these concerns.