Common themes in the Library 2.0 debate around library renewal include user participation, 'harnessing' the user in design and implementation of services, allowing users to contribute to library Web sites and catalogues through tagging and reviews, and federated searching.
I subscribe to the Library of the future Dr. Wendy Shultz writes about in "Infinite Futures: To a temporary place in time...", a 3D service and Library 3.0 world where virtual collections exist and books and librarians have avatars and online personalities. A world of librarian “superstars” based on customer ratings. The physical Library (Library 1.0 to 3.0) is not replaced, but expanded and absorbed by digital technology. Library 4.0 is the 'neo-library: libraries as mind gyms; as idea labs; as art salons (commentary and annotation)'. Her concept of the 'knowledge spa' also appeals, "...meditation, relaxation, immersion in a luxury of ideas and thought...a retreat, a sanctuary, a pampered experience...fine words, exquisite brandy, smooth coffee, aromatic cigar, smell of leather, rustle of pages—to the dream economy’s library, the LIBRARY: a WiFREE space, a retreat from technohustle, with comfortable chairs, quiet, good light, coffee and single malt..." Kind of like the SLV of the future.
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