The Electronic Librarian Is a Verb is a A Lecture Delivered at the New York Public Library, as part of the The Gilbert A. Cam Memorial Lecture Series October 14, 1994, by Kenneth Arnold.
\”Enter the librarians, who seem precisely suited to shape this information or knowledge structure–and, not surprisingly, many of them are addressing these questions, often in league with publishers and computer programmers. I have described their role in the title of this lecture in grammatical terms–the librarian as a verb–because what we are talking about is in fact creating a syntax of digital knowledge. That is certainly more palatable than \”information processing.\” Given the computer\’s capability to connect us to a seemingly unlimited array of subjects and objects in the digital language, how should we manage that capability most effectively?\”
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