I know that the goal for this post is just to riff on new apps or electronics that will help librarians, and in that vain I'm looking at buying an iRecord and a TIVO as a means of bringing educational tv into the classroom, but I'm really interested in taking a more generalized view of the library and technology.
This is an interesting paper by Robin Murray: Library Systems: Synthesise, Specialise, Mobilise
I agree with a lot of what he says, but I don't think that our role as librarians is just to know our local client's needs: "Applying local knowledge of the user population to the service - understanding holistic user profiles and requirements allows the service to be tailored to specific user groups and individuals. The library has greater access to specific profiling information than is available to generic network service providers." I think we also contribute to the network, internet, world knowledge, whatever you want to call it, the information that we have locally that no one else has. The easiest example, and it is just the tip of the iceburg, is writing a detailed Wikipedia entry for your elementary school, high school, or college.
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Good post.
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