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The Creative Librarian is a hub for matters important to librarians/information scientists of today. There is a definite lean towards electronic issues, however it isn't restricted to only those. Hopefully this site will also be useful for informing non-librarians on these issues as so many of them affect us all.

Archive for March, 2007

You must read Dear Library of Congress…

ALA TechSource | Dear Library of Congress… It is both ironic and poignant that librarians are still worrying about “bibliographic control,” after ceding so much of the same to the companies that now rent them journal access per annum at usurious rates, digitize their book collections into DRM obscurity, or sell them ponderous, antiquated “management” [...]

Ten Tech Trends for Librarians 2007

Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology: Ten Tech Trends for Librarians 2007 So here’s this year’s list, with a new name: “Trends” instead of “Things.” Sure it puts a finer point on it but it also recognizes the changes in my thinking about the essential duties of librarians: Learn to Learn Adapt to Change Scan [...]