New technologies, New Professionals

New Technologies,New Professionals
New ProfessionalsConference
Whatisitliketobe a Library & Information Professional in the 21st Century?
6th July 2009
Nicholas Robinson-Garcia
GraduateTrainee
EC3Science and ScientificCommunication Evaluación

A fewglimpsesoFrecenthistory…

Web 2.0

Web 2.0
Library 2.0

Web feeds
Web 2.0
Blogs
Recommendersystems
Customization
Microblogging
Forum
Library 2.0
Long-lifelearning
RSS
podcasting
Wikis
Collaboration
Marketing

Aren’ttheydoingthesamething?
http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/heritage/Photos/Disc11/IMG0093.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/piet_musterd/2730906433/

“My takeisthatlibrariesstill do thethingstheydid a hundredyearsagobutallthesethings [technology] havebeenaddedon top of it”
Keith Fiels
Executive director, ALA
(February, 2008)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimrettig/1556717179/

Theendisstillthesame, it’sthemeansthatchange

http://chawedrosin.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/geek-vacation.jpg

Technologychanges
… howusersbehave:
Theywantinformation, buttheywant:
Thelatest
Thebest…
… and theywantitNOW and forFREE
… howuserscommunicate:

Do wereallyneed new professionals?

Do wereallyneed new professionals?
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Public Library of Muskiz

Public librarians
Academic librarians
New career profiles

Three “successstories”
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Three “success stories”
RESEARCH
PUBLIC LIBRARIES
BUSINESS

Catuxa Seoane

Catuxa Seoane
Javier Leiva

Catuxa Seoane
Javier Leiva
Daniel Torres Salinas

Find your own niche!

If they did it…

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… you can too!

Thankyou!
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Thankyou!
More on my blog
http://entreolasdeinformacion.blogspot
and onFaceBook
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Yes, it’s in Spanish, sorry folks!
GraduateTrainee
Licensed under Creative Commons 3.0