Laval and Thomas
> > ...used to do. If we don't look at this as our job, we will be much
> > reduced in the future.
At my university, this is happening in real time.
A new structure is gradually going up alongside the
traditional library, but not part of it.
The managers running these areas have no background at all in libraries.
Some are IT workers, some ex-teachers, some ex-journalists.
Some report to the University Librarian, but they stand very
much separate from the library and don't have much contact with
the few of us left who are professional librarians.
I agree with Laval's comment in another thread where
he says "we need the values that librarianship has espoused"
but it's not important to keep librarianship alive.
Just as it wasn't important to keep keypunch, telephone and telegraph
operators alive.
The challenge is educate these new information services workers
in a new way - bring something of librarianship to system
administrators and online education specialists.
regards
Mark
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Laval Hunsucker
> Sent: Saturday, 12 February 2011 3:39 AM
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Watson - IBM's "question-answering"
> machine (potential implications for libraries?)
>
> > Things like digital preservation, repositories, structured metatdata
> > services, recommender services etc don't just appear. Somebody has
> > to build them. They provide equivalents of what physical libraries
> > used to do. If we don't look at this as our job, we will be much
> > reduced in the future.
>
> I would agree, Thomas.
>
> I was including those things already under "a matter of
> helping to build, and of maintaining the accessibility of,
> ever new and better information systems". Those systems
> should as far as I'm concerned also involve as much AI
> as possible. ( Works much better than librarian
> intermediation. ) Goes likewise for visualization etc.
> etc.
>
> I wasn't including those things under what can perhaps be
> "left to the web, the experts, and the users themselves". It's
> certain *other* things that librarians think they should be
> doing, and are trying to do, that can probably ( better ) be
> left where possible to those systems, or otherwise "to the
> web, the experts, and the users themselves".
>
>
> - Laval Hunsucker
> Breukelen, Nederland
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Thomas Krichel <krichel_at_OPENLIB.ORG>
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Sent: Fri, February 11, 2011 4:53:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Watson - IBM's "question-answering"
> machine (potential
> implications for libraries?)
>
> Laval Hunsucker writes
>
> > The rest can perhaps indeed without regret be left to the web,
> > the experts, and the users themselves.
>
> Things like digital preservation, repositories, structured metatdata
> services, recommender services etc don't just appear. Somebody has
> to build them. They provide equivalents of what physical libraries
> used to do. If we don't look at this as our job, we will be much
> reduced in the future.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
> http://authorclaim.org/profile/pkr1
> skype: thomaskrichel
>
>
>
>
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