Acquisitions in a wired world: where are we going?

This is a frightening time to be a thirty-something acquisitions librarian. Convention dictates that I follow up that statement by saying that this is also a very exciting time to be a thirty-something acquisitions librarian, but I'll tell you what: it's mainly just scary. I worry a lot about what's going to become of the work I love over the next ten, twenty, thirty years - not just because I love the work and will miss it if it disappears, but also because I need the work in order to feed my family and I wonder whether the work I'm doing now is preparing me well for the work that will need to be done ten, twenty, thirty years from now.