Trends and Issues in Extension

I keep finding myself adding librarian blogs to my aggregate feeder. As professionals dealing in information and data, librarians are quite active in using new technology to shape their practice and organizational strucuture. This post from Biblio Tech Web questions how much print reference materials libraries should keep on their shelves. The point being that several online sources are now readily available to users. Should reference space be truncated for different uses? How should people access the information?

These are good questions for Extension Systems to ponder as well. How do we make ourselves accessible online? How do we let people search (a big, emerging trend in information technology) in intuitive ways to find information? How do we find information for our own uses? Some good ideas to ponder.