10 reasons why the future can belong to librarians.

Det var väl ingen som missade att en av våra stora dagstidningar listade bibliotekarie-yrket som ett utdöende yrke i våras.
Jag säger bara: - Bah, Humbug! Hittade följande tio skäl till varför framtiden tillhör bibliotekarierna på SirsiDynix institutes site. Orkade dock inte översätta:)

1. Nobody knows better than you how to manage information.
2. Nobody knows better than you how to track down information.
3. Nobody knows better than you the importance of information standards - common ways to categorize, sort and act on things.
4. Nobody's word about what's right and what's important has more credibility than yours.
5. Nobody is in a better position than you to teach people about information and media literacy.
6. Nobody is in a better position to be a watchdog on new systems of sorting information than you.
7. Nobody is in a better position than you to teach the world about the history and built-in wisdom of credibility-assessment systems.
8. Nobody is more empowered by professional creeds and training to articulate a rationale for freedom of speech than you.
9. Nobody is in better shape to play a thoughtful, constructive role in debates about the value of information "property" and the meaning of copyright in an age where it takes a couple of minutes to download a brand new movie on BitTorrent - for free.
10. Few other institutional voices are as well positioned as yours to guide conversations about the new norms and even new laws we need to develop about what information is public and what is private.