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| Auger | What if we dumped the MLS | 3 | Jul 21 2008, 2:35 PM EDT by annie07 | ||
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Thread started: Mar 30 2008, 4:55 PM EDT
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What if we dumped the MLS as a requirement for doing library work, including management jobs like branch manager and assistant director? Does the MLS necessarily add value to what an applicant brings?
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| señorbibliotecario | What if librarians actively tried to smash the Nancy Pearl stereotype? | 2 | Jul 10 2008, 10:00 PM EDT by Conspirator | ||
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Thread started: Jun 27 2008, 4:57 PM EDT
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I think Nancy Pearl is an outstanding librarian, but the stereotype she promotes is damaging to librarians and to libraries. It may be cute to folks in the profession and it may be funny to folks outside of the profession, but it is what the public thinks of when they think of libraries and librarians. How about instead of being little old ladies with "shooshing action" we were cool, friendly people who help kids instead of shoosh them?
As younger librarians take the helm, it must be our duty to smash the old stereotype and create a new one. Bob Dylan put it best (although he was referring to parents), "Your old road is rapidly agin', please get out of the new one if you can lend your hand, for the times, they are a-changin'." |
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| Auger | What if we do nothing about AV? | 2 | Jun 4 2008, 6:34 PM EDT by homegirl2180 | ||
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Thread started: Feb 13 2008, 11:09 AM EST
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The music and movie industries are changing and we aren't. While we buy media shelving and Alpha security cases, the bottom is falling out of the old music and movie markets. We, and other brick-and-mortar retailers, are being bypassed in favor of models that deliver product directly to users, a song or a movie at a time. iTunes has sold billions of cuts; Tower Records went bankrupt. Have we NOTICED? How do we become part of the new model? Netflix is streaming movies directly to customers and will soon be offering a set-top box to get it to their wide-screen TVs.
A substantial part of our circulation is media, how about yours? What'll it look like if five years if we do nothing? And what about this Kindle thingee? Amazon is blazing a trail right around us.
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