Lorekeeper
"Forget about that image of librarian as a mousy bookworm. Librarians these days must be high-tech information sleuths, helping researchers plumb the oceans of information available in books and digital records. It's an underrated career. Most librarians love helping patrons dig up information and, in the process, learning new things. Librarians may also go on shopping sprees, deciding which books and online resources to buy. They even get to put on performances, like children's puppet shows, and run other programs, like book discussion groups for elders. On top of it all, librarians' work hours are reasonable."
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10 pages
"I think I want to suggest that our libraries have to continue to operate a bit piratically, at the same time that they continue to imagine themselves as the center of learning, however quickly it changes and remakes itself. The most important point made by current scholars of the book, at a moment when the library is increasingly being thought of not just as a holder of book but a dispenser of 'information,' in a wide array of new forms, is that new information technologies do not come out of nowhere, and they continue to build on the old technologies of the past. It is a joke among computer people, for instance, that the most reliable way of storing information continues to be paper, because while one "operating system" or another "word processing system" might be introduced tomorrow, whereas paper will be paper will be paper."
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