Yesterday's Librarians,
Tomorrow's Information Professionals
Hi! This is a presentation from thewikiman, in response to this excellent post from theBlueSkunkblog:
(you can view the original at http://bit.ly/blueskunk)
how would that principle apply to 
the people rather than the place?
Yesterday’s librarians were the gate-keepers of information
Tomorrow’s Information Professionals will be the liberators of information
Yesterday’s librarians were literary polymaths
Tomorrow’s Information Professionals will be digital polymaths 
Yesterday’s librarians created a service and 
offered it to those who wanted it
Tomorrow’s Information Professionals will anticipate and respond to the needs of their users and build the service around them
Yesterday’s librarians were all about austerity and enforcing silence
Tomorrow’s Information Professionals will be all about dynamicism and encouraging interaction 
Yesterday’s librarians were stagnant, able to go 
without change for perhaps decades at a time
Tomorrow’s Information Professionals will have to be very flexible indeed, and adapt to new challenges year-on-year

Yesterday’s librarians were all about books

Tomorrow’s  Information Professionals will be all about transliteracy 
Yesterday’s librarians knew what the word ‘librarian’ meant
Tomorrow’s  Information Professionals will have 
to accept that it could define anything in the future 
Yesterday’s librarians knew what they were letting themselves in for…
Tomorrow’s Information Professionals probably have no idea! 
He compares yesterday's libraries 
with tomorrow's libraries...
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