Reading Response # 3

In the first article “Why the next Big Pop-Culture Wave After Cupcakes May be Libraries” I understand that the author is trying to say that libraries maybe the newest thing people are becoming crazy about. He focuses on the channel TLC and the TV shows they have made into pop culture sensations. Some of these include 19 Kids and counting which focuses on a family with 19 children, Say yes to the Dress which features brides getting help from dress consultants to find the perfect dress, and DC cupcakes which is about to sisters who start a cupcake shop in DC. His point is that this is what could potentially happen to libraries if the hype about them continues and people become more interested in them.
Personally I found this article very hard to read and understand. It is not very well written and very jumbled. I disagree with his opinion and do not think libraries will become the next to pop culture craze. I think this because all of the other ones have something fueling them, what I mean to say is we watch to understand them that’s why they are popular. Why would u possibly want 19 kids, is it that hard to find a wedding dress and are brides really that mean, or is having a cupcake shop profitable and as easy as it looks? As for libraries we know what they are, we know why they are there, and we know what they offer so what is to be intriguing?
The second article “ The Library of the future begins to emerge” is about what the libraries of the future maybe like and that it maybe coming sooner than we think. It focuses a lot on the Milpitas Public Library and the way it has been organized and the opinions of its users. This library has private reading rooms, group-study rooms, a reading area with magazines and newspapers, local history room, computer-training center and a conference room, a multipurpose room/theater, a teen center where they can get help with homework, as well as 107 computers, and a children’s library section. They also have self check outs so that librarian will be able to help more people instead of being stuck behind a desk. This article also focuses on the fact that librarians are going to have to adapt and learn to handle the constant changes in technology. They will have to be constantly learning to keep up. So librarians will never be obsolete and neither will libraries.
I found this article to be interesting and I hope that more libraries continue to make changes in order to better improve their functionality and usefulness. I also am a bit worried because I am horrible with technology and will have to do some major learning myself to be able to keep up with all these future changes.