This video about Web 2.0 is really neat! I always knew librarians were cool. This is the Information Age, after all, and where do librarians work? In the information industry! The stereotype of a severe old lady with her hair in a bun, protecting dusty old tomes is so ridiculous and outdated - surely no one really believes it? Yet the stereotype persists, in spite of how savvy librarians are and how modern our libraries are.
I am KEEN AS for people to be able to find their own information. Everyone seems to think that they know what they're doing when they search on the Internet (and maybe they do) but how do they know that the information they get is reliable? Why don't more people ask librarians for help when they're looking for stuff online at the library? We get asked for help when there are technical problems with the library computers, and we get asked how to find books, but why do people think librarians know nothing about finding electronic information?
I despair, I really do.
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Great job, but don't despair!! Hopefully once you've finished Web 2.0 (and encouraged your workmates to as well), then YOU can be the super librarian to change all of that! :)
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