Just a Room Full of Stuff? Why Libraries are Great / Katie Birkwood

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A brief introduction to what it is that makes libraries so important. ...

A brief introduction to what it is that makes libraries so important.

Talk given at Ignite London 4, 8 Feb 2011, with a bit of extra text added to help it make sense.
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Just a Room Full of Stuff? Why Libraries are Great / Katie Birkwood — Presentation Transcript

JUST A ROOM FULL OF STUFF?why libraries are greatKATIE BIRKWOOD | @girlinthe
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Libraries are about information…

…and libraries are about people.
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S.R. Ranganathan, The five laws of library science, 1931, http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105454
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Information is messy
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Librarians organise informationso that things can be found

online≠findable≠ free
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Google can bring you back 100,000 answers.A librarian can bring you back the right one.
Neil Gaiman, 16 April 2010, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-sR1uCQ6g
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Librarians hunt for resources

Librarians throw things away
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Librarians make catalogues…
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…and teach people how to use them
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Personal Name: Hansen, Robin.
Main Title: Flying geese & partridge feet : more mittens from up north & down east / by Robin Hansen, with Janetta Dexter.
Published/Created: Camden, Me. : Down East Books, c1986.
Related Names: Dexter, Janetta.
Related Titles: Flying geese and partridge feet.
Description: 133 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 x 26 cm.
ISBN: 0892722142 (pbk.)
Notes: Bibliography: p. 128-133.
Subjects: Knitting --Maine --Patterns.
Knitting --Maritime Provinces --Patterns.
Gloves --Maine. Gloves --Maritime Provinces.
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Librarians arrange things
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Whataboutthis ?

A Spotter’s Guide to Librar*
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Libraries are everywhere
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Iflibrarieswereinventedtomorrowpeoplewouldﬂockto them
Ned Potter & Laura Woods, 2010, http://prezi.com/if9wccvvunup/escaping-the-echo-chamber/
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Cachi Chien , . 'An open book is a talking brain, closed, a waiting friend; forgotten a forgiving soul; destroyed a heart that cries...'

'Un libro abierto es un cerebro que habla; cerrado un amigo que espera; olvidado
, un alma que perdona; destruido, un corazón que llora. ...' 8 months ago

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