I just finished reading The World is Flat. It is a thoroughly interesting book. It was refreshing to know that a bit more than halfway through the book, the author acknowledges that the world is certainly not flat. It is just flattening. A completely flat world would not have developing nations with the levels of poverty, inequality, and suffering that now exist. My inability to download this book to my Kindle because of geographical circumstance was just a pale, trivial example of inequality.

This book emphasized the need to constantly evolve. To always offer more than just the basic vanilla flavor. As a soon to be media specialist I infer that in our case this could mean -borrowing on the author's metaphor- our vanilla is taking care of our printed collection and promoting literacy, the chocolate sauce could be all we do that is related to developing 21st century information and technology skills in our students and the cherry on the top is our ability to apply exciting web 2.0 and 3.0 online services through Library 2.0 websites and digital libraries.

Stimulating.