Last week, I addressed a group of librarians about cloud computing trends, web-scale, and how OCLC plans to apply them to library management systems and services.  One of the thematic questions before I took the podium was whether libraries are entering a renaissance period.  That discussion might have been more interesting had the previous topic not been the very sorry state of library funding. As I am always inclined, I tried to mix the topics all together.  A few folks asked me to reproduce my brief remarks, so I will attempt that here. Technology applications makes for a boring topic …