Peter Murray-Rust, of the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge, looks at the opportunities that libraries missed. This is a must-read.
He says that Libraries once had a central role in guiding scholarship but that neither Libraries nor Librarians do anymore. He traces this decline to “two major missed opportunities where, if we had had real guaradians of scholarship we would not be in the current mess – running scared of publishers and lawyers.”
- The library of the future – Guardian of Scholarship?, by Peter Murray Rust, petermr’s blog, March 19th, 2009.
So, simply, the librarian of the future must be a revolutionary. They may or may not be Librarians. If Librarians are not revolutionaries they have little future.
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