No less important, they are often the most informed people when it comes to technological change-its limits as well as its advantages. They know what’s going on across the disciplines, among professors and administrators as well as students. It’s that, more than any other class of professionals in higher education, librarians possess a comprehensive understanding of the scholarly ecosystem.
It’s not that many of today’s librarians routinely dress in sunglasses and black leather (though some do). Evelyn, from my elementary school in the early 70s.)
It’s a dated reference, but today’s information professionals often remind me more of Ian Malcolm, the “chaos theorist” played by Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park (1993), than of the eyeglass-chain-wearing librarians of yore, if they ever existed in significant numbers. For all the concern expressed about the imminent demise of the college library, there may never have been a time when librarians seemed more vital, forward-thinking-even edgy-than they do now.
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