Small task - future roles

1. My job title is Information Librarian and I am reasonably happy with it. Information Specialist might be better but, although there is an argument to be made against naming a profession after the building they work in, the public know what librarians are and they would probably continue to call us librarians regardless of what our name tag said.
2. Are the days of traditional libraries numbered? It depends what you mean by 'traditional'. It seems to me that libraries have never been static but have changed with the times. After all, we no longer chain our books to the desks! Libraries will continue to change and develop but, in Harris, Hannah and Harris' (1998) terms I am a 'reformer'. I believe that, for the foreseeable future, there will be a place for books and digital information and as long as libraries continue to have books they will need to be public places where people can come and browse the collection. Many people have predicted the demise of the book but more books are being published now than ever.
3. My library has:

• an integrated library management system
• a website where people can access the catalogue and other useful information including digitised photos from our collection and a number of electronic databases. They can also submit questions to library staff
• OPACs for patrons to access the catalogue
• email communication with patrons, suppliers and other libraries
• blogs and wikis for staff communication and to provide information to patrons
• online interloan system
• RFID tagging of its books
• a Beebo site

Currently we don't have any ebooks and we don't use IM or Twitter. The majority (about 90%) of our requests for information result in a book being found for a patron.