W3C incubator group on LLD – Draft Report for comment

That libraries "do not adapt well to technological change" is debatable, and largely orthogonal in any event to whether libraries are using linked data. The crux of the problem to me is the old "chicken and egg" problem. Libraries won't use linked data until/unless it solves a need. Right now it doesn't, or at least we lack the tools to make linked data effective in a library environment. Frankly, I don't see any killer apps out there in any industry, which inhibits adoption in any industry, and even more so in libraries which are organizations of limited resources.