Bob Cox writes, from the Seattle Times.
Forget the tweedy look, book cart, reference stacks and shushing.
Think Pentium 4 processors at 3 gigahertz and a know-how that holds its own among the metadata crowd.
The new generation of librarians has a more-modern set of skills. As the amount of information increases, so do opportunities for librarians. “It’s becoming more and more technically oriented,” said Dan Trefethen, a librarian at Boeing’s Future Combat Systems program in Kent.
“We are trying to get away from the image of the musty, old collection of books and get people to understand that we are part of the information revolution and, in many cases, leading it.”
Special librarians tend to work at “special” libraries at businesses or in government agencies. Although physical collections at many in-house libraries are shrinking, more organizations are hiring librarians to help find, arrange and deliver information.”
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