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The United States federal government has made predictions that forecast how the arrival of technology will affect the fate of libraries soon. Based on most scenarios this impact will happen over the next two to three decades. The shifts in the usage of libraries and their employees will be felt in the next fifteen years or less and they are going to effect libraries all over the world by then. Modern librarians are asking themselves how they will continue to be relevant in the educational system of tomorrow... There have been shifts in the overall academic requirements for the librarian skillset that includes network administration and technical support. This philosophical changing of the guard will eventually transform the role of academic librarian into a kind of technical support assistance and operations specialist. In addition to reference information the new world librarians will need to provide the public with internet access, computers interfaces, smartphone uplink, equipment..