Academic libraries DOA? Is this the future?

The future is unknown, yet we look ahead and try to predict what will be. The conclusions can sometimes be uncomfortable.

That's how I feel about Brian T. Sullivan's Academic Library Autopsy Report 2050 in the January 2, 2011, of The Chronicle of Higher Education. Uncomfortable.

Sullivan's six main points are:

1. Book collections became obsolete.
2. Library instruction was no longer necessary.
3. Information literacy was fully integrated into the curriculum.
4. Libraries and librarians were subsumed by information-technology departments.
5. Reference services disappeared.
6. Economics trumped quality.

Sullivan also posits librarians' part in making both themselves and their libraries obsolete by being blind to changes and failing to plot "a realistic path to the future." Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Will this be the future? Or, will Sullivan's article galvanize librarians to take a different path?