At the packed meeting at the Royal Society of Arts last night on the point
of libraries I found myself using the expression, thirty years ago, which I
seem to remember, thirty years ago, was said very slowly as a joke about old
people making remarks about thirty years ago, and now I am there...
But what provoked the remark was the position of at least two of the panel
on basic knowledge organisation and information retrieval tools, which I
pointed to around the point in Dewey.. If this isn't too pointed.
None of the speakers had referred to how public, school, further and higher
education, never mind also the other sectors, need information planning and
inter-operability, indeed even co-operation to function.
It does seem to me that for information planning and library co-operation to
work we need a set of tools and for the victims to be able to do anything
they need information literaacy. The role of metadata with increase not
reduce this need. For professionals, and avowyed (sic) members of CILIP to
take public platforms on positions such as this in environments such as the
Starbucks RSA needs a professional response and debate.
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