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Biddy FisherCILIP President 2010
...And our Professional Future is.............
More of this....
And less of that......
@bikerbid#cigx
Are cataloguing & indexing still at the heart of what Library and Information Professionals do?
Essential for information retrievalfor locating itemsfor verifying authentic sourcesfor ensuring standardsfor preventing clutter and chaos
etc.
Is this what chaos looks like?
And yet....
Everyone can ‘google’likes ‘google’ simplicityexpects google type resultsthinks its easythinks its automaticdoesn’t really think about ‘it’ at all
Not everyone can spell......
This is becoming the new heart of the profession
Another form of literacy?Searching the endless resources
For simplicity sake, think reductively of three categories of library material: bought, licensed and digital
The systems to provide access to these three collection types probably account for the vast majority of access traffic to library collections. Lorcan Dempsey blog February 13th 2009
Endlessly providing access
Digitising can’t be achieved without creating & organising dataThose who want to eliminate the ‘back room’ have no idea how this alone would endanger cultural heritage
Facing our professional future?
What did we say in ‘Defining our professional future’?
90% Interpersonal skills89% Customer service skills85% ICT skills73% General management skills72% Information evaluation
skills71% Training skills66% Information management
skills
50% Teaching skills 47% Cataloguing skills46% Classification skills24% Indexing skills
85% ICT skills66% Online comms skills32% Web publishing skills18% Database design skills
Increasingly diverseCore professional skills are overlooked by employers, society, the publicFuture offers more opportunities for making a differenceNo standard skillset
In 10 years time
More• On line comms• ICT• Business• Marketing• Information evaluation• Information management• Web publishing• Customer service• Fundraising
Less• Cataloguing• Classification• Indexing• Database design• Interpersonal • Teaching• Decision support• Training• General management
Minister Ed Vaizey IS interested in Libraries
He recognizes the use of libraries for more than just books
He needs informationfrom the experts and we need to communicatewith each other
Photography and images in the presentation are courtesy of
Chris Keene (2 images)Eric Hackathorn Lost in Scotland, Veijo Vilva, Greenhem,See-ming Lee 李思明 SML,Jeheme,Stephano Principato,Jontintinjordankylanicole
They were traced using Creative Commons and FLICKRand are displayed under the
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