Library 2.0 , Old School??

I read all of the opinions on Web 2.0 insofar as it pertains to libraries and was most intrigued, perhaps by the last one, by Dr. Wendy Schultz , To a Temporary Place in Time. Intrigued because she goes on to discuss the potential and hypothetical, and she's probably not too far off when she goes even beyond the VR experience (hello SecondLife) to a seemingly utopian, neo-library experience. In my minds' eye, however, she seems somewhat idealistic and old fashioned, as it seems as though she assumes that in this neo-library, this art house for mind expansion this "knowledge spa", her article makes no mention, no consideration for that aspect of society that uses the library as flop house and hang out. Libraries are communities, as she says, but I can't imagine that our patron base will change all that much. We have a core group of library users that might not consider themselves "thought leaders". Very often our most insistent patrons, they are waiting at the front doors at 9am, and sometimes they are among the last to leave at 9pm. They don't seem to come here seeking immersion in a luxury of ideas, and while it's nice to think that this is included in the future of libraries - this virtual wonderworld of meditative higher thinking, I can't imagine our particular landcape without them. Or the teen library patrons who approach me with only a single syllable, "net", and the hope of updating their myspace page. Subtle thoughts, fine words, smell of leather.....hmmmm... Coffee? Yep, we've got that!