|玛丽·凯利|
就在最近,我在工作中的年龄危机。一位年轻十几岁的女孩要求借用电话我的办公桌上。我推桌面电话对她说:“当然,帮助自己,拨8至外线。”她盯着我,问了“真正的手机”,因为她不知道如何工作的桌面电话。其实我有教人如何使用普通的桌面电话。这是第一次对我来说,作为一个图书管理员。这个年轻的少女从来没有使用传统的电话。在她的世界里,只有那种手机是智能手机。
As I am chewing on this little fact, I realize that in my library career of nearly 20 years, I have seen an insane amount of change in technology. It really doesn’t seem all that long ago that computers were a “new” tool in libraries. I remember teaching my first computer class for library patrons and we had standing room only. Without a doubt, computers were an integral part of our daily practice as librarians.
Even as late as 2009 and 2010, my partner and I were regularly presenting a program to other librarians called “Tech Support is Reference” through conferences and other library training. The message of this program was that librarians had a duty to assist patrons regardless of whatkind问题他们问。当时,有显著性的行业,以帮助顾客谁问及“技术支持”式的问题。多个库专业思想电脑会毁图书馆参考咨询服务。(我的一部分想成为小和说:“我告诉过你”到谁所有,但指责我破坏了行业的那些馆员。幸运的是,这是发布在网站上,并因为他们恨电脑这么多,他们可能不会注意到,我的话。)
现代图书馆的专业是不会长久库中的设置,如果他们没有在一个非常实际的方式拥抱变化。不仅必须图书馆知识渊博,但我们也必须能够通过各种媒介来传达知识。言下之意是巨大的。据预计,现代化的图书馆员将知识渊博的有关技术,我们能够时尚,知识转化为多种学习方式可用的内容。新技术,新出现的主题和需要其他学科的定期,持续的培训被根深蒂固作为作业的常规部分。与预算和时间有限的职业发展意味着我们中的大多数将不得不这样做没有支持相结合。