I'm sure by now you have seen my picture on this blog. (I've also added a few to my flickr site.) Slowly but surely, merely by reading instructions online, I continue to grow into both my profession and the world as it currently is and is becoming. (The implications are a bit disconcerting to someone in mid-life crisis like myself. Forced by circumstances to become hep, mod, groovy, and up-to-date, face-to-face contact is becoming so pre-21st century. Hey, the times they are a-changin', man. Location and proximity don't mean a thing anymore. Customs, cultures, traditions and distinctions of locale are doomed to become mere anthropological curiosities. Humans are no longer evolving in the direction of all that lovey-dovey, 60s-70s, human-rights, United Nations nonsense. We're evolving into machines. Personalism is dead, man! Oh, goody.) Let's just say I stopped by the site of my old library school http://www.si.umich.edu/ and discovered that the curriculum, except for one course, is of a completely different nature than when I was in school a mere twenty years ago. (What will another twenty years bring?) How will we ever keep up?
Fortunately, there is a solution! Library Success: A Best-Practices wiki. http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page Need to know the latest in collection development? What librarians need to know about Web 2.0, Library 2.0, all the other 2.0s? The latest in reader's advisory? How to market your library (which is more important than ever in today's economy)? Where to get training? How to train staff? Where to find jobs? What the latest trends are? How to be a 21st century librarian overall? What they're teaching in library schools these days? Look no further. Your one-stop shopping site is here, and boy am I glad I found it! Now we can all stay on top of the trends, no matter how old we are! (Now that, on top of being cool, is encouraging!)
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