For this Thing, I read "The Future of Libraries: Interview with Thomas Frey." I'll admit I was pleasantly surprised; most of the articles I've read on the future of libraries are doom and gloom predictions that they're an endangered species. Mr. Frey, however, sees libraries as evolving, rather than becoming extinct.
I work in a library at one of the agriculture and technology colleges in the SUNY system. Assuming that our campus survives to 2020 (I think we will, but you never know), and given that we are currently under renovation (my office is being moved as I write, on my laptop, in limbo), I don't know how much our building will change in nine years. Services, to be sure, will continue to evolve.
I work in circulation and interlibrary loan. The migration to an online world has been continual; the catalog, indices, journals, and general workflow have all moved, in whole or part, to digital formats, and as ebooks proliferate, circulation adjusts.
