Library 911: Saving Libraries One Step at a Time (Part 2)
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The document promotes the value and importance of libraries in today's digital world. It notes that more information is being created than ever before, so libraries are needed to help people navigate information overload. Libraries can help people access and use information from the internet as well as provide educational and job resources. The key message is that now, more than ever, libraries and librarians are vital to help people effectively use and understand information.
Library 911: Saving Libraries One Step at a Time (Part 2)
- 1. the time for libraries is NOW
- 2. First Some info about the world.
- 3. We already know Shift Happens
- 4. What does this mean for the information profession?
- 5. What does this mean for the information profession? People of the world you need us now more than ever.
- 9. WTF?
- 10. More people are alive now, than have lived and died in the entirety of human history put together
- 11. More than 150 million people will be born this year...
- 12. More than 150 million people will be born this year...
- 16. The top 10 jobs of 2010 didn’t exist in 2004.
- 17. Who can provide up to date info on these roles for which none of us are educated
- 18. because the jobs didn’t exist when we were educated?
- 21. Over 2 billion people use the Internet now
- 22. Libraries can help people use it safely
- 23. and use it well
- 26. Take a look at http://www.worldometers.info
- 27. Take a look at http://www.worldometers.info (It’s okay, I’ll wait.)
- 28. searches
- 29. searches
- 30. 3 billion
- 31. Want to know a secret?
- 32. Librarians used to be a bit scared
- 33. Librarians used to be a bit scared of
- 34. But now we are evolving
- 35. The evolution of library man Before: Threatened by / dismissive of Google >>>>> Before: threatened by / dismissive of Google
- 36. The evolution of library man Before: Threatened by / dismissive of Google >>>>> Now: yes Google is useful, but you need libraries too
- 37. The evolution of library man Before: Threatened by / dismissive of Google >>>>> Next: you know what, just let us help you use Google better...
- 38. Because we live in a world of INFORMATION OVERLOAD
- 39. If a week’s worth of the New York Times
- 40. Contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th century...
- 41. Then now more than EVER the world needs information professionals to sort, assess, collate and present information
- 42. If a we’re to generate more unique information this year we
- 43. Than in the previous 5000 YEARS put together
- 44. Then now more than EVER the world needs information professionals to sort, assess, collate and present information
- 45. If things move so fast that the stuff students learn in their first year of University
- 46. is outdated by the time they graduate…
- 47. Then now more than EVER the world needs information professionals to sort, assess, collate and present information
- 49. It has never been easier to access information without libraries
- 50. Yet information professionals have never been so vital
- 52. is as bad as too little
- 53. We’ll help you with either.
- 54. We can help you navigate through the tyranny of choice. choice.
- 55. Information overload is your enemy. enemy.
- 57. Librarians are no longer the gatekeepers of information
- 58. The gates are wide open. We’ll show you the path once you’re through them.
- 59. We used to be the information vault
- 61. We will subscribe to e-journals, purchase e-books and audio-books, and pay for access to databases on your behalf
- 62. We will subscribe to e-journals, purchase e-books and audio-books, and pay for access to databases on your behalf
- 63. We will give your community somewhere safe and comfortable to go
- 64. (We’ll even let you drink coffee in the library now…)
- 65. We’ll entertain your kids
- 66. We can teach you about all kinds of stuff
- 67. We will help you find a job
- 68. And we still have, you know, books, too.
- 69. Sometimes, people knock libraries “The demise of libraries is well overdue” - Frank Skinner, The Times, September 2010
- 70. Then they actually go to one… one… “Why I’m on a new page with local libraries – it was my ideas that were dog-eared, not the places themselves.” - Frank Skinner, The Times, October 2010
- 71. Have you been to yours recently?
- 72. I bet it is way cooler than you imagine. Vancouver public library
- 73. Maybe it has changed its name. But don’t get too caught up in that.
- 74. Libraries are changing to suit you.
- 75. We’ve always been about providing information. That information used to be mainly in books.
- 76. We’ve always been about providing information. That information used to be mainly in books. Now it’s in all kinds of things.
- 77. We’ve always been about providing information. That information used to be mainly in books. Now it’s in all kinds of things. We try and give you access to all of ‘em.
- 79. Come on in. in.
- 80. The time for libraries is NOW Ned Potter
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