Futures - the scenario
Electronic services can only increase in future. The opportunities will not decrease although they may change.
Money is flowing into Web work despite what we said earlier about resources. New Opportunity Fund and other money is targeted onto it. e-government targets will continue to accelerate progress
Our skills will be in demand.
We are competing for funds with others in the local arena such as heritage services who want to produce very similar products.
Many apparently unique local resources such as parish registers are being published on a national or international scale, e.g. by the Mormons
There is far greater integration in the Web arena between library sectors than there is in the library field itself (e.g. joint work between HE, FE and local authorities)
However we need a new performance indicator model because clients for Web services do not need to visit the physical library. If physical visits do not count then how are we going to measure performance?