The document summarizes how libraries and books have changed over time and need to continue adapting to remain relevant. It notes that for centuries, books and libraries were closed to limited groups of people but that the development of computers and the internet require libraries to change by becoming more accessible online, easy to use like Google, and allowing more interaction like Libraries 2.0 and 3.0. It argues that digital libraries can create a new era for libraries by providing worldwide access to information anytime, anywhere, and for anyone, while still maintaining their roles as knowledge guardians and cultural learning centers.

1. 19 March 2009 LATINA Oslo University College by Clara Escobar Jurado http://claesju.wordpress.com

2. If we are interested in the future of the Libraries, we need take a look at the past and the present. To do it, we need realise that exist a strong relationship between the BOOK and the LIBRARY.

3. For many centuries the books, and the documents, on paper, had been the knowledge containers. Both of them had been as a CLOSED BOOK.

4. Picture by traceyp3031's photostream from Flickr.com Medieval Age (8th-14 th centuries) The Book and the Library were narrow and private Only for a selected group of people

5. Picture by from chaky_flickr Flickr.com

8. Do you find out any difference between both pictures? Yes, the first one is in black and white and the second one in color :-)

9. So is normail that Internet seems better than a library

10. Librarian Point of View: People = Users Users->need Information->go to the Library People Point of View: I need Information->go to a PC->search on Google

11. They had incorporated new technologies. But the traditional libraries are too much TRADITIONAL. Because of the Computers and Internet development in the last years .

12. THE TIMES ARE CHANGING: Libraries and Librarians MUST CHANGE TOO

13. Be accessible = using Internet Be simple and easy to use = like Google Be opened and alow the possiblity of interaction = Libraries 2.0 and 3.0

14. The Digital Libraries CAN MAKE REAL A NEW LIBRARY AGE The same level: WWW The same opportunities than Google The same powerful tools

15. And the most important The people could achieve it Wherever Whenever However Whatever Whoever

18. The libraries could achieve their abilities and possitions: cultural places learning centre quality management information information literacy programmes

19. and also continuing being KNOWLEDGE GUARDIANS

20. Gutenberg Project Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes Europeana World Digital Library Biblioteca Digital Hispánica

21. Text: online books, digitized book, papers, articles… Videos: documentals, TV, films… Sounds: audiobooks, radio, music…

22. As the EUROPEANA project that is an integration of the digitized resource from european libraries, museum and archives!! Sounds Great!

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