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Encyclapedia Britannica

http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2012/03/looking-ahead/
Some interesting comments on the demise of the encyclapedia as we have known it.

Search engines

This site has a history of search engines -they date back to 1946.
http://www.searchenginehistory.com/

Blog

Here's a blog set up by some new librarians to discuss working in libraries in the digital age. Follow the links and also look at the page librarian 2.0
http://liseducation.wordpress.com/

Trends

This article features current trends with comments on how they can be applied in libraries. What do you think? Are they likely to be a permanent feature, or a passing fancy? Should libraries embrace these concepts and use them - or is would it be too much of a gimmack?
http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/perpetualbeta/2011s-11-crucial-trends

Getting started on the essay topic

This is a short article form the OCLC publication Nextspace
http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/017/research.htm

Add your comments to this thread - should libraries start to think in terms of 'transaction costs'???

Writing an essay

Here's some information about essay writing  from Curtin University of Technology that you may find useful.
http://learningsupport.Curtin.edu.au/skills/writing_skills.cfm