Oct 18 2007
Encouraging article – 33 Reasons Why Libraries and Librarians are Still Extremely Important
We can all get depressed about the Google generation and headteachers who think that libraries are obsolete -
Cheer yourself up by reading this article:
33 Reasons Why Libraries and Librarians are Still Extremely Important by Will Sherman on the DegreeTutor site.
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Very uplifting; I think most sensible librarians know we face no threat from the web or digital content.
I think the answer is to embrace the two. I love web 2.0 but also love to track down a snippet of information for a student, or recommend a fiction title.
When you think about the new amount of digital content in the world, and growing fast, and the huge room with books on the floor that is the web, who’s going to classify, evaluate and order this stuff?
Quite.