"Drucker predicted fearlessly that the profession with the most
promising future was that of "knowledge worker." Isn't that supposed to
be us?
What happened?"
This seems like predicting the printing press would mean that the most
promising future was that of 'reader'. It may have been true for some
time, but eventually literacy became part of a basic education.
I agree that librarians are sometimes guilty of undervaluing their own
expertise (and I've been guilty of this myself at times), but where I
disagree is that we should be 'protecting our boundaries'. Rather I
believe we should be breaking down those boundaries, and expanding our
expertise so that we can have sensible conversations with other
disciplines. I think we have some of that cross-over happening on this
list, but overall the profession still seems to be slightly 'inward'
looking to me.
Received on Thu May 24 2007 - 03:38:50 EDT