denotes premium content | Jan 9 2009 Regular
posted 19 May 2008 in Volume 2 Issue 4
Thought leader
The librarian in today’s business faces myriad challenges: the need to adapt rapidly to technology advances; the potential shortage of staff to replace an older generation of librarians; as well as budgetary cuts and a reduction in physical space afforded to library services. But if there’s one overriding challenge in all of this, it is surely the problem of perception.
Where end users are increasingly accessing information themselves, library services are in danger of being seen as outdated and unnecessary. The acquisition and dissemination of information appears to have successfully moved out of the controlling hands of the few, into the directly actionable hands of the many. Why bother with the middleman, when you can access and use the information you need at the touch of a button?
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