Jon Udell on remixing the library

Abstract: In an online world of small pieces loosely joined, librarians are among the most well qualified and highly motivated joiners of those pieces. Library patrons, meanwhile, are in transition. Once mainly consumers of information, they are now, on the two-way web, becoming producers too. Can libraries function not only as centers of consumption, but also as centers of production?

Jon Udell posts the text of a talk he gave at the Global Research Library conference earlier this month.  It's not too long, and it'll make you think.