Dear John
I am the tinzle (sic) fairy!
I'd really like to point out that Internet Librarian International's 2007
programme does not just cover 2.0, although coverage is of course - and
quite rightly - given to it.
This year's programme actually focuses on helping the traditional librarian
and information researcher justify their existence in a world where everyone
searches the internet in their work and information colleagues sometime
struggle to demonstrate their value.
Our aim, with Internet Librarian International 2007, is to give librarians
and information colleagues the edge by equipping them with tools and
resources that support their superior search, management and delivery skills
- illustrating just why we continue to be invaluable within our
organisations and institutions.
I hope LIS-LINKers will find the time to evaluate the programme in more
detail. We really do plan this event with career advancement and education
in mind for all of our attendees!
And just to illustrate my point: www.internet-librarian.com
With best intentions and best wishes,
Internet Librarian International
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Sent: 19 June 2007 12:34
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Subject: Find 0.0
At an inaugural lecture last night, while the speaker was enthusiasing about
Web 2.0 someone asked the question, or made the point, that searching isn't
the point of the exercise, finding is, and showed the National Record Office
as a case.
By accident, unless a tinzle fairy organises these things, I had the
catalogue for Internet Librarian International land on my table the same
day.
This seems to me to be full of Web 2.0 stuff with just about nothing obvious
on the traditional skills and professional competences which made libraries
libraries.
Is the plot being lost?
In Librarians for Social Change I argued we had to improve the political,
historical, philosophical, cultural, aspect of our competences, not throw
them out entirely.
With the computer industry forcing grep and search upon us, with social
tagging and social networking, it seems now that re-asserting the essential
competences is more important than ever, but the profession is remarkably
silent, like it has given up, yet the ILI is badged with CILIP.
Perhaps we need to reform the library association?
Incidently, sorry for the 20= etc which appear in messages in digest mode, I
know it makes text almost unreadable, but is beyond my control and imposed I
think by the digesting software?
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