We connect people to knowledge. We bring people together with the intellectual content of the past and present so that new knowledge can be created. We provide the ways and means for people to find entertainment and solace and enlightenment and joy and delight in the intellectual, scientific and creative work of other people. This is what we have always been about. [7]
Purpose:
This lecture, reflecting on future roles, posits the potential dawning of a "great age of librarians," if librarians make the conceptual shift of focusing on their own skills and activities rather than on their libraries.
I'm sure many of you are familiar with this blog but I found her last post particularly relevant to this course. It's an overview of a VALA presentation by Hugh Rundle from Boroondara Libraries entitled Technolust and Libraries. An interesting read!