Internet Safety and Doug Johnson's descriptors for Tomorrow's Libraries

Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog post last month contrasting 12 differences between the school libraries of the past and those of the future reminded me most of all of our work from the first week of LBS 850 on "Change as a Constant In School Libraries". His second couplet seems apropos to this week's work on Internet safety:

Yesterday's libraries were all about getting information.
Tomorrow's libraries will be all about creating and sharing information.

He also talks about tomorrow's libraries as "all about online services, digital resources... teaching how to evaluate and use information... helping users organize information in ways that make sense to them... [and] being intellectual property counselors." All of these services and roles relate to how professional librarians can help students navigate and learn from the Web.

Both the full post and the comments are well worth reading!