more hope for librarians
With a couple more days to absorb the Brown reading, I have even more hope for the future of librarianship. Like Korrie said:
As librarians we are taught how to process/sort/rearrange/recombine as part of our knowledge set. Does this mean we have an advantage in the coming trends of web 2.0? I feel it is our nature to want to tag/categorize/identify information as we receive it and as Brown says "reduce knowledge into data." This is instinct for us...to break large information sets into smaller categories to make it easier to find/use later. This can only be an advantage if we are willing to embrace new technologies and have the ability within our environment/institutions to implement them.
As librarians we are taught how to process/sort/rearrange/recombine as part of our knowledge set. Does this mean we have an advantage in the coming trends of web 2.0? I feel it is our nature to want to tag/categorize/identify information as we receive it and as Brown says "reduce knowledge into data." This is instinct for us...to break large information sets into smaller categories to make it easier to find/use later. This can only be an advantage if we are willing to embrace new technologies and have the ability within our environment/institutions to implement them.
A few people have commented that they, too, have had people challenge their reasons for going to library school. By the end of this class, I think we'll all have learned a few more tricks that will keep us relevant, even indispensable, in the future.
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