What's Next for Collection Management and Managers?

This article discusses the future of library collection management and managers. The article suggests that funding will continue to govern the amount or availability of library materials and periodicals. Also discussed are technological innovations changing the industry, which includes the influence of Web 2.0 technology. Such technology and future business models have been discussed at conferences in previous years including the Persistence of Memory Conference, the Sun Microsystems Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group Meeting, and the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics in the United States.