The most important job of a librarian is to be a helpful hand to a student, a teacher, an educator, or anyone looking for ways to further their knowledge about a certain criteria. Librarians help people find information so they can use it for a professional or personal purpose. They also help people find things such as books, articles; DVD’s or find things on the internet. I think librarians should start to engage more with the people that need help with something I feel like now a days we are losing contact with librarians because they’re getting replaced with computers. For example if I take the Aurora Public Library for example if you need help trying to find a book you will search through the libraries computer and it will give you all the information that you need. Then once your ready to check out your book you do it by yourself through a computer. We have lost the contact, we use to have with librarians I miss the days when I use to go up to them if I got lost and I had no idea what I was doing. I think that the future library would be taken over by computers and technology. There’s going to be less personal contact with people that work there. You will also be expected to do things and find things on your own. I also feel like since you can find everything you need on the internet you wouldn’t need to go to the library unless you needed a quite place to study. Most people are reading less and less each day but, if they do read then there are many technologies out there that makes it easier for them to do so without having to go to the library.
Eyerusalem,
ReplyDeleteWhile libraries have turned towards online card catalogs and self-checkout, we have done that so that we can engage with our users in different ways. For example, at the Health Sciences Library, our library classes and tours are constantly increasing. We go to the professors' offices if they don't have time to come to us. We meet with some of the doctors as they do their rounds. We offer extensive online support. All of these changes were made because that is what our users were requesting. While we might not always sit behind a big desk in the public area, there will always be librarians and library staff to offer support!
Julie Silverman, MLS, MBA
Head of Collection Management
Univ. of Colorado Health Sciences Library
Anschutz Medical Campus