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The article reports on a white paper on the state of libraries by TALIS in 2005. Authored by Ken Chad and Paul Miller, the paper outlines how libraries must change and evolve in order to survive. The authors have coined the phrase of Library 2.0 to represent a vision of a very different library service that operates according to the expectations of library users. The provider of products and services for public and academic libraries in Great Britain and Ireland has also made available podcasts on a variety of interesting topics with industry and library leaders.

Presents news briefs related to libraries from around the world as of May 2004. Program of the British Library to save endangered archives worldwide; Finding on a survey by the Irish Library Council on the percentage of users of the country's public libraries who found their last visit highly satisfying; Reason for the strike held by employees of the Ministry of Education's Ghana Library Board on March 26, 2004.