On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 00:45, Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_nd.edu> wrote:
> IMHO, the way to make ourselves more relevant is to move beyond the
> access to information and towards the facilitation of services against
> information.
Rightly so, but I'll dare you a slight modification ;
People want knowledge, not information. Information is no longer the
bargaining chip. Set up systems that can deliver, harvest or
communicate knowledge (no, not wisdom ... not yet :), otherwise people
*will* go elsewhere and the need for libraries will be gone. (And by
'gone', I mean they'll turn into pure archives)
But hey, speaking of wisdom, you *do* know that the librarians wisdom
has been and still is a much sought after commodity, right? That the
filtering, opinions and decisions librarians have been trained to
suppress is the very thing the world today crave?
Regards,
Alex
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