Around the world twice on a library degree

Around the world twice on a library degree
Phil Bradley
http://www.netvibes.com/philbradley

But...

Use the difficulty

"He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon."
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode, "Never Kill a Boy on the First Date."

Because...
Libraries are not about books
Libraries are about reading
Libraries are about information
Libraries are about power

Librarians
Are powerful people!

All other professions come to:
Teachers
Librarians

Or to put it another way:
"Show me a computer expert that gives a damn, and I'll show you a librarian." Patricia Wilson Berger (Quoted in Chicago Tribune article, 29 June 1990, Tempo section, p. 1)
"Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books."Guy Browning(The Guardiancolumn, 18 October 2003.)

We can deal with:
1,253 tweets per second
25 billion pieces of information shared on Facebook per month
35 hours worth of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, 2 billion viewed per day
133 million blogs, 900,000 posts per day
4 billion images on Flickr (13x more than LC)

What is power now?
Knowledge?
Information?
Knowing how to find something?
Knowing how to arrange information?

NO!
Power is

Reputation!
Increase your reputation by giving away information
Be proactive
Don’t take no for an answer
Use your enthusiasm

Where is your reputation?

Namechk.com

You are self employed
Though perhaps you haven’t realised it yet
It’s your responsibility to make sure that you’re up to speed
Act as your own boss
9-5 is history

Think for the long haul
Where will the profession be in 2050?
Where will the internet be?
What will information and libraries look like?

What did it look like 30 years ago?

Illustration by Albert Robida, for « The End of the Books » by Octave Uzanne, published in Scribner's Magazine, vol. 16, no 2, August 1894

So, looking forward
Few, if any books
No newspapers
No magazines
No search engines
No internet
Embedded chips
?????

Please remember!
“Librarians must be like Krishna and descend into the world to combat ignorance” ShiyaliRamamritaRanganathan
“The librarian must be the librarian militant before (s)he can be the librarian triumphant” Melvil Dewey

http://beretandboina.blogspot.com/2009/12/librarian-free-speech-protest-against.html

Jo Anderson, revolting hula hooping ball of energetic librarianship

Around the world on a library degree

Oh the fun!

Thanks to:
http://www.carbonblueprints.org/project_reforest.html (For the world image)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vermininc/2303896197/ (rat image)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29560353@N08/2876311749/ (AK47 image)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vattenfall/3588611650/ (Powerplant image)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/malova/1932058673/ (Hotel image)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobo1522/2587309158/ (Miami beach)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcgreer/3794118835/ (Passport)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/betta_design/2086852016/ (TajMahal)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9574086@N02/1221478663/ (ZX81)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pnrml/3963206504/ (Acoustic coupler)
http://www.paleofuture.com/display/ShowImage?imageUrl=%2Fstorage%2F590201+closer+than+we+think+paleofuture.jpg (future from the year 1959)
http://twitpic.com/19792p (Telephone objections)
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/11893/xander%20harris.jpg (Xander Harris)
Funny quotes from http://www.laughinglibrarian.com/siglibn.htm
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/File:The_End_of_Books_-_page_228a.jpg (Early iPod)
http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/2010/10/anachronistic-internet-ads/ (Retro internet ads)

Around the world twice on a library degree

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