The document promotes the value and importance of libraries in today's digital world. It notes that more information is being created than ever before, so libraries are needed to help people navigate information overload. Libraries can help people access and use information from the internet as well as provide educational and job resources. The key message is that now, more than ever, libraries and librarians are vital to help people effectively use and understand information.

1. the time for libraries is
NOW

2. First
Some info about the world.

3. We already know Shift Happens

4. What does this mean
for the information
profession?

5. What does this mean
for the information
profession?
People of the world
you need us now more
than ever.

9. WTF?

10. More people are alive now, than have lived and died
in the entirety of human history put together

11. More than 150 million people will be
born this year...

12. More than 150 million people will be
born this year...

16. The top 10 jobs
of 2010 didn’t
exist in 2004.

17. Who can provide
up to date info on
these roles for
which none of us
are educated

18. because the
jobs didn’t exist
when we were
educated?

21. Over 2 billion
people use the
Internet now

22. Libraries can
help people
use it safely

23. and use it
well

24. Libraries can
provide
access to it

25. across the
digitial divide

26. Take a look at
http://www.worldometers.info

27. Take a look at
http://www.worldometers.info
(It’s okay, I’ll wait.)

28. searches

29. searches

30. 3 billion

31. Want to know
a secret?

32. Librarians used to be
a bit scared

33. Librarians used to be
a bit scared
of

34. But now we are
evolving

35. The evolution of library man
Before: Threatened by / dismissive of Google >>>>>
Before: threatened by / dismissive of Google

36. The evolution of library man
Before: Threatened by / dismissive of Google >>>>>
Now: yes Google is useful, but you need libraries too

37. The evolution of library man
Before: Threatened by / dismissive of Google >>>>>
Next: you know what, just let us help you use Google better...

38. Because we live in a world of
INFORMATION
OVERLOAD

39. If a week’s worth of the New York Times

40. Contains more information than a
person was likely to come across in a
lifetime in the 18th century...

41. Then now more than EVER
the world needs information
professionals to sort, assess,
collate and present information

42. If a we’re to generate more unique information this year
we

43. Than in the previous 5000 YEARS put together

44. Then now more than EVER
the world needs information
professionals to sort, assess,
collate and present information

45. If things move so fast that the stuff students learn in their first year of University

46. is outdated by the time they graduate…

47. Then now more than EVER
the world needs information
professionals to sort, assess,
collate and present information

48. EDUCATION IS ONGOING

49. It has never been easier to access
information without libraries

50. Yet information professionals
have never been so vital

51. TOO MUCH
INFORMATION

52. is as bad as too little

53. We’ll help you with either.

54. We can help you navigate through
the tyranny of choice.
choice.

55. Information overload is your enemy.
enemy.

56. Librarians are your
friend…
friend…

57. Librarians are no longer
the gatekeepers
of information

58. The gates are wide open.
We’ll show you the path once you’re through them.

59. We used to
be the
information
vault

61. We will subscribe to e-journals, purchase e-books
and audio-books, and pay for access to databases
on your behalf

62. We will subscribe to e-journals, purchase e-books
and audio-books, and pay for access to databases
on your behalf

63. We will give your community
somewhere safe and comfortable to go

64. (We’ll even let you drink coffee in the library now…)

65. We’ll entertain your kids

66. We can teach you about all kinds of stuff

67. We will help you find
a job

68. And we still have, you know, books, too.

69. Sometimes, people knock libraries
“The demise of
libraries is well
overdue”
- Frank Skinner, The Times, September 2010

70. Then they actually go to one…
one…
“Why I’m on a new page with
local libraries – it was my ideas
that were dog-eared, not the
places themselves.”
- Frank Skinner, The Times, October 2010

71. Have you been
to yours
recently?

72. I bet it is way
cooler than you
imagine.
Vancouver public library

73. Maybe it has changed its name. But
don’t get too caught up in that.

74. Libraries
are
changing
to suit you.

75. We’ve always been about providing information.
That information used to be mainly in books.

76. We’ve always been about providing information.
That information used to be mainly in books.
Now it’s in all kinds of things.

77. We’ve always been about providing information.
That information used to be mainly in books.
Now it’s in all kinds of things.
We try and give you access to all of ‘em.

79. Come on in.
in.

80. The time for libraries is
NOW
Ned Potter

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