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 * Discuss methods or strategies you would consider to make your library/agency competitive in relation to providing cutting edge technologies and services that satisfy user needs.**

Provide updated physical environment: include access to technology and training in how to use the technology. Include, perhaps, new "coffee house" setting. Incorporate popular Web 2.0 applications--perhaps provide subject pathfinders through Library 2.0 LibGuides. Provide news updates or book reviews through Blogger. Provide digitized archive collection through Content DM or even Flickr. Allow comments. Provide user-friendly database systems to enable user to access higher-quality information than what may be available through a web search engine yet as easy to access as using a search engine. Provide remote sevices such as remote reference so that people can use library resources as easily as they can use Google. **Push out the collection**. Digitize.

Sarah S.