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The librarian in the cloud: or beware of unintended consequences.

We have all been hearing for some time that we are facing the death of academic libraries. The arguments are summarized best, perhaps, in an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education's January issue, “Academic Library Autopsy Report, 2050” [1]. I happen to believe that academic health sciences libraries, as “spaces,” probably are going to disappear and hospital libraries as well. However, rather than bemoan that fact, I think we, as health sciences librarians, need to start focusing on how libraries, as “organizations,” will function without the “library as place.” Perhaps the passing of the academic library will not matter much to academia in general, but for those of us dedicated to quality health care, guaranteeing the continuing existence of some entity (whether we call it a library or not) that ensures that physicians and patients still have access to high-quality, accurate, health-related information should be a priority.