From abstract: "ibrarians must choose whether or not to stick to the traditional library brand, or evolve and market libraries as something else."

Blog post about changing roles of librarians and why emerging technology is important.

This paper is part of the special issue of European Environment devoted to the outputs of the EU SRDTOOLS project,1 which developed and applied a new model of regional sustainable development evaluation. The paper introduces the concept and framework of the four-capital model, which was used in the project. First it discusses some issues around sustainable development evaluation, before introducing the theory of the four-capital model. It then describes how indicators can be used to evaluate programmes such as those financed by the EU Structural Funds against criteria for sustainable regional development in terms of the four capitals. An ideal indicator set is listed in the appendix.

Kansas City Star article about how the model of public libraries is changing to include interactive programs for patrons.