Perhaps library anxiety exists, but I also think this article misses the fact that anxiety or not, people will tend to take the path with the least friction. Ri

Perhaps library anxiety exists, but I also think this article misses the fact that anxiety or not, people will tend to take the path with the least friction. Right now that's Google and Wikipedia. These are both huge accomplishments in the dissemination of human knowledge and libraries should pursuing strategies that work with them or like them instead of around them. As a librarian, my primary criticism of the profession is its need to reinvent itself. Librarians are convinced of their irrelevance and their response is offering more and varied services (3D printing, for example) rather than pushing the services they do have into new spaces. For example, linked data initiatives like RDF would do wonders to make unique library collections more accessible, and possibly more searchable. Or work with universities and vendors to break down the silos of journal vendors to integrate them better into library catalogs, and more development of those tools to make discoverability a priority.