Today’s Librarian: Hip, Delusional, and Doomed
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what do you think about this guy's point? you were saying last night that a librarian's job is to facilitate the dissemination of information, not preserve books as a museum might. do you think he's got a point about that position eventually making the physical library obsolete? whose job is it "to maintain our culture and our civilization," as he says? are there perhaps different kinds of librarians with different responsibilities or jobs? or is it the public's job? hmmm...it's got me thinking...
ReplyDeletepersonally, i feel there is something special about being able to go to the public library and touch and smell actual books, curl up in a corner with a friend or your child and drift into a new world with a book. i certainly plan to do this frequently with judah and hope he'll come to appreciate it as a fundamental experience of learning and discovery. is it just nostalgia that makes me want to preserve this experience because the idea of digitizing everything didn't exist when i was a child? will he have any motivation or desire to experience the old fashioned way of reading a book if he grows up doing it the new way? (well, he's going to grow up reading hard copy books, so it doesn't really apply to him entirely, but what of those children in the future who have little to no experience with actual books or printed material? hmmmm...