academic libraries dislocated by technology?

I liked the slides from Digital Libraries and New Technologies: Exploring Roles and Dislocations (PowerPoint), a presentation by Michael Ridley, Chief Information Officer & Chief Librarian, University of Guelph given to the Academic Libraries (LIS514) course at the University of Western Ontario.  Incidentally, CIO and Chief Librarian seems like a good combination.

“When simple change becomes transformational change, the desire for continuity becomes a dysfunctional mirage.” The Mirage of Continuity (1999) Hawkins & Battin

The Mirage of Continuity is a book of essays about "com[ing] to grips with the profound, and indeed transforming, changes technology will effect in how the [US] university campuses provide information resources in the 21st century".  ISBN 1887334599

I also liked some of the implications he lists for Web 2.0:

• The ILS is Dead
• Interoperability / Standards
• Living on the Bleeding Edge
• Lib 2.0

Of course in an academic library context I'm not sure whether it should be "the ILS/OPAC is dead" or "the ILS/OPAC is irrelevant", since scientific communication takes place through journal articles, not books.

I also really like the idea of the Data Curator role he explores.

I do wish there was accompanying audio or video with the presentation, it's clear there are many more thoughts that are just hinted at on the slides.

I don't really have a good category for this kind of information yet.  Academic Library Future?  Library Technodoom Rant?

He has a blog called Towards the Information Ecology.