sible. Academic librarians will continue their major role in helping the user to xample, most law libraries will continue to be strapped for staffing, space, and t essay, library consortia will continue to advocate on behalf of alternative mo . As commercial publishing will continue to play a major role in the mix of libr brary resources, consortia will continue to play a key role in the negotiation a hat information technology will continue to have an impact on libraries and that ts come to study and learn will continue to exist. However, Web 2.0 tools will i ights reserved. 5 literacy will continue to be important. Assessment and account peer libraries. Consortia will continue to be popular because of the concepts o ogy and the World Wide Web will continue to assist or force libraries to change. ve that academic libraries will continue to exist, and in certain instances even ntent. Library space, too, will continue to be necessary, both to house physical rvices. Juggling Libraries will continue to allocate staff and resources to sele ts. While paper monographs will continue to be added to our collections for year years to come, the balance will continue to shift toward digital information, es rved. 3 Academic libraries will continue to have a role to play in teaching and nds of knowledge resources will continue to search for a successful merchandisin Change within the library will continue to be evolutionary, not revolutionary. s, hospital, clinic, etc.) will continue to be a major priority. As much as is p ic health sciences library will continue to serve as: • • A physical symbol s. Academic law librarians will continue to provide enhanced instructional and r ips. The community college will continue to seek new opportunities to serve its libraries are becoming and will continue to become more diverse as they try diff ificent research libraries will continue to function primarily as the institutio print texts have been and will continue to be digitized, unless they were “bo g academic libraries? They will continue to have a selection of all kinds of inf And, of course, librarians will continue to work collaboratively with colleagues ir vision and mission that will continue to create equality and intellectual qua owever, community colleges will continue to grow. They will continue to change, ill continue to grow. They will continue to change, perhaps sharply, due to thei usiveness of their mission will continue to keep ©2010 Ninfa A. Trejo. All righ pproach to education. They will continue to be challenged by receiving funds fro