I recently had a conversation with a co-worker who is interested in library science and specifically in preservation. He asked what type of classes I was taking and as I listed off a few he noted that there were a lot of technology classes. I said of course, I am learning all I can so as to be able to press forward in library science. But I am not really interested in technology, he muttered. Well, I do believe that is impossible in this day and age and certainly impossible in library science, I muttered back.
All lives are surrounded by technology but it seems very prominent in our field in the last 5 to 10 years and I believe it will only continue. It seems that more and more everything I do is on a computer. I take my classes, communicate, research, find information, create blogs and web pages and so on. I think some people still envision a librarian as a books only type of person and wonder why we need degrees. Although I love books and read as much as possible, I also love technology and appreciate all the changes I see before my very eyes. I am glad the field is expanding and developing in new ways, I look forward to being a digital librarian as well as a book librarian.
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I'm glad to see you are a librarian open to change. I had a recent conversation with the director of a university library and he lamented that too many librarians just can't accept change and that is a dangerous place to be in a field ad dynamic as ours.
LCG
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