1. ...And our Professional Future is.............
Biddy Fisher
CILIP President 2010
...And our Professional Future is
More of this....
And less of that......
#cigx
@bikerbid

2. Are cataloguing & indexing still at the heart of what Library and Information Professionals do?
Essential for information retrieval
for locating items
for verifying authentic sources
for ensuring standards
for preventing clutter and chaos
etc.

3. Is this what chaos looks like?

4. And yet....
Everyone can ‘google’
likes ‘google’ simplicity
expects google type results
thinks its easy
thinks its automatic
doesn’t really think about ‘it’ at all
Not everyone can spell......

5. This is becoming the new heart of the profession

6. Another form of literacy?
Searching the endless resources

7. Endlessly providing access
For simplicity sake, think reductively of three categories of library material: bought, licensed and digital
The systems to provide access to these three collection types probably account for the vast majority of access traffic to library collections.
Lorcan Dempsey blog February 13th 2009
Endlessly providing access

8. Digitising can’t be achieved without creating & organising data
Those who want to eliminate the ‘back room’ have no idea how this alone would endanger cultural heritage

9. Or understand how anyone will
find anything in the future

10. Facing our professional
future?

11. ‘Defining our professional future’?
What did we say in
‘Defining our professional future’?

12. 90% Interpersonal skills
89% Customer service skills
85% ICT skills
73% General management skills
72% Information evaluation skills
71% Training skills
66% Information management skills

13. 50% Teaching skills
47% Cataloguing skills
46% Classification skills
24% Indexing skills

14. 85% ICT skills
66% Online comms skills
32% Web publishing skills
18% Database design skills

15. Increasingly diverse
Core professional skills are overlooked by employers,
society, the public
Future offers more opportunities for making a difference
No standard skillset

16. In 10 years time More Less On line comms ICT Business Marketing
Information evaluation
Information management
Web publishing
Customer service
Fundraising
Cataloguing
Classification
Indexing
Database design
Interpersonal
Teaching
Decision support
Training
General management

17. Minister Ed Vaizey IS interested in Libraries
He recognizes the
use of libraries for
more than just books
He needs information
from the experts and
we need to communicate
with each other

18. Chris Keene (2 images) Eric Hackathorn
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Chris Keene (2 images)
Eric Hackathorn
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