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    Blurring of Lines: Academic and Public Libraries Revisited
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Steele, Patricia Ann
    Among the conclusions reached in Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources: A Report to the OCLC Membership in 2005, was the following: "The similarity of perceptions about libraries and their resources across respondents from six countries is striking. It suggests that libraries are seen by information consumers as a common solution, a single organization - one entity with many outlets - constant, consistent, expected." Does this mean that many of the traditional differences between public and academic libraries also are blurring? In this pieces, I would like to explore that thought informally and then suggest some approaches libraries of all types need to take.