Wednesday, July 20, 2005

What am I?

Should we refer to us with the generic title of 'information professional'? A bit like a teacher calling him/her self an 'educator'. It may make a difference if titles like 'librarian' are outdated, but then again is blandess the answer? Other titles are 'information manager', 'information broker'. Interestingly, there are no real synonyms for the term 'librarian'. Maybe we stick to that? And wear less beige?

If you type in the word 'librarian' in google, then click on [definition] it will take you to some interesting articles and a strange painting called 'the librarian'.

The directory of google is relatively poor on the subject of library and information science. Anyone know a top drawer links based site on library matters worldwide?

With real scope?

1 Comments:

At 7:42 PM, Blogger George Eraclides said...

Dear Jack,
History must be cyclical or they're a bit slow(er) in the West. We were called the Learning Resource Centre (LRC) for years before we decided to take pity on our clients and go back to just being 'the library'.
I like library, but at my age I would.
If occupations had colours to designate them, what colour would be right for us?

 

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