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Around the world twice on a library degreePhil Bradleyhttp://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 booksLibraries are about readingLibraries are about informationLibraries are about power
LibrariansAre powerful people!
All other professions come to:TeachersLibrarians
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 second25 billion pieces of information shared on Facebook per month24 hours worth of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, 2 billion viewed per day133 million blogs, 900,000 posts per day4 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 informationBe proactiveDon’t take no for an answerUse your enthusiasm
Where is your reputation?
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You are self employedThough perhaps you haven’t realised it yetIt’s your responsibility to make sure that you’re up to speedAct as your own boss9-5 is history
Think for the long haulWhere 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 forwardFew, if any booksNo newspapersNo magazinesNo search enginesNo internetEmbedded 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
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.htmhttp://en.wikisource.org/wiki/File:The_End_of_Books_-_page_228a.jpg (Early iPod)