Saw the link via Twitter for this delightful, and timely reminder, of the value of librarians in the digital age from the CILIP VP, Phil Bradley. I have sent this to my team in case there are some who might want to reflect on what they are doing the job for. In the last round robin email to my team at Highbury I also added this quote which surfaced on Twitter too; "Google will bring you back 100,000,000 answers. A librarian will bring you back the right answer." - Neil Gaiman.
Perhaps in the race to adopt and adapt to e-services, much of which is brilliant for breaking down accessibility barriers and making people information rich, there is a blinkered vision of forgetting the core skills of managing knowledge, which starts with a skilled professionall librarian, not a computer.
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