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...Mexico. And if we consider the longer-term catastrophic risks from the runaway greenhouse effect, shutdown of the Gulf Stream and collapse of the West Antarctic ice shelf, curbing carbon dioxide emissions is a small price to pay for insurance, even though adaptation will also be needed. William R. Cline, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics and Center for Global Development, Washington
...don’t believe we will ever accomplish a complete digitalization of all that’s in our physical collections,” Cline says. “I think we’ll always have a hybrid relationship of using the things in the manner in which they were originally published [as well as] their digital surrogates...
...Cline envisions a future where libraries will be viewed as places to work, whether or not they have collections. And library staff will be able to venture out to classrooms and labs—as they already do—in order to work with faculty and teaching fellows, while remaining connected to the library’s collection via laptops...
...changing nature of technology requires libraries to be on top of the newest innovations, gauging which sites are passing trends and which might be useful for reaching users, says Cline, mentioning social networking sites like mySpace.com and facebook.com as web phenomena that libraries are keeping a sharp...
...have to be conversant with practically everything that’s coming out,” Cline says...