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Libraries in the Digital Age

Libraries have always been at the forefront when it comes to information and information access services and it is not different in the digital age.  A fact that I didn't know, mentioned in "Libraries: Ensuring Information Equity In The Digital Age." American Libraries 32.1 (2001): 7. Academic Search Premier. Web. 30 Apr. 2015, is  that Congress passed an act, the Communications Act of 1934, that declared the right to  "universal service to ensure equitable access to communications technology".    That is a basic right for everyone, today everyone can access information through digital technology  in our libraries with the use of tax financed resources.
Libraries have adapted to new media technologies, in doing so they have helped the public to increase their information resources.  Today when we look for information we can find the very same creation in different formats, libraries usually have them all, like a book in print, e-book format, downloadable format, audio-book maybe even the video format as well.
Therefore as the author describes today librarians are needed even more than before not only to access to that wide array of information but also to help the public to use those technological advances in the best and more effective way "Not surprisingly, the complexity of finding, evaluating and utilizing information in the electronic age, has become a major challenge for the 60% of the workforce that engages in some information-related activity." "Libraries: Ensuring Information Equity In The Digital Age." American Libraries 32.1 (2001): 7. Academic Search Premier. Web. 30 Apr. 2015.
I would  only say that the next step might be in the working, the final step would be a merging of what is going on independently in the internet with what it's in the libraries.  Like a merge between W2 technology based tools and the tools currently used by the libraries.  The first step I think it's already there both sets ready to be sued.