Here is a link to my interview with Leah over at the Young Librarian Series.
Category Archives: information activist
Leadership
Today, I am pondering what seems to me a lacking our profession has in terms of leadership. We, librarians, need to be united. Our world faces many issues, and a lot of these are library causes. Where is our vision? Where are we going?
I was recently interviewed and stated that we need a call to arms; a call to stand up and let our voices and our dollars be heard.
Many of our great leaders are gone, retired or silenced. Will you stand up? Will you take our profession boldly into a new decade?
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Vendors
I have been thinking a great deal about how our vendors control us. I hear countless stories of librarians wishing databases did this or that. We wish our OPACs were more user-friendly. We wish that database A talked to database B etc…
Why does it have to be this way? When will we have taken enough? Many of these companies were started by us. Why did we give up control? Why do we let these companies make record profits while we count every penny?
We need to unite together. We need to stand up for ourselves. We lose and our patrons lose. I, for one, have had enough!
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