It's Friday afternoon, and if you are seeking weekend reading, you might want to check out "The shape of things to come" from this week's Times Higher Education in which Tara Brabazon "ponders a future bereft of the custodians of knowledge":
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=403729
As always, Tara gives us great sound bites: "Librarians are the custodians of forms and institutions, transforming a platform for information into the foundation for learning".
She concludes: "As we think about the future during our own troubled times - scarred, like [H.G.]Wells', by war and financial turmoil - we can campaign for new technology or older technology. We can Google more information. But there is another option: to support the one profession that can preserve and transform, structure and analyse, speak and remember".
Alison
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Alison McNab
LIS Co-ordinator, Higher Education Academy - Information and Computer Sciences
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