This Book is Overdue: How librarians & cybrarians can save us all by Marilyn Johnson 272 pp.
The news media is incessantly predicting the end of libraries and the written word. This book tackles that assertion by looking at the myriad ways libraries and librarians are shifting, changing, automating, and digitizing, while keeping tabs on the old ways, and old materials. There is even a length section on cyber-librarians who only exist online in places like Second Life. Some of the changes are exciting and some are disheartening but all of it makes me think I should have gone after that MLS when I thought about it the first time back in the '90s.
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