Libraries have the ambition to facilitate the creation of knowledge in and for their communities. Taken from a broader perspective, this ambition fits within the trend from meconomics to weconomics as described in The future of business here. Therefore libraries face the same challenge as all organizations in the private and public sector.
They all experience that cooperation, coordination and communication is going to take more and more place in
constantly changing constellations. Participating and
collaborating in spontaneous networks becomes the new normal. The question is whether organizations are capable to deal with this paradigm shift in the way they work.
Thei Geurts
Thei is a European librarian who has also worked in the publishing, knowledge & information technology domain. His motto is: 'Temporibus mores sapiens sine crimine mutat.' Thei's professional profile can be found here.