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Staying Open to Possibilities in Today's Government Library 43 BEST PRACTICES 2012 By Caryn S. Wesner-Early, ASRC Technical Information Specialist, US Patent & Trademark Office For the past 40 years or more, it has been accurate to state that we are living in a time of unprecedented change. In 1970, Alvin Toffler published the book Future Shock, describing the feeling people get when the future comes too soon. Those of use who have reached adulthood since the publication of the book may have felt that since we knew the future was coming fast, we would be immune to the shock. For me, at least, that is not the case! The information world is changing so fast that even recent library school graduates are facing problems and challenges not expected while they were students. Did you graduate in 2006? Five years ago, did association or government libraries expect to have Facebook pages? Was there any discussion of what to do if they did? How about using Twitter for your library? Not covered? I didn't think so. Library schools and students face the challenge of preparing for a future that picks up speed as it approaches. When I graduated from Catholic University in 1989, the School of Library and Information Science was training librarians to adapt to and use new resources, without having any idea what they would be. It offered a database searching course (mostly DIALOG) and a systems course; other than that, there wasn't a lot to be done with computers. Most larger library catalogs were online within their universities, and public and government libraries were starting to follow suit, so we knew to expect more of that, but we really didn't know what else. The Internet was known only to a few university or goverment researchers, and I don't remember hearing or reading anything about it in my classes. One of the best classes I had, as far as preparing for the unknown, was Sam Clay's Public Libraries. Sam gave assignments like "Write a short essay on a non-traditional library." It was wide open, and helped us start to think "outside the box" (as it was not yet called then!). But the whole ethos of CUA SLIS was forward-thinking, and without necessarily expressing it in words, the program gave us to know that we had to be flexible. Good thing, too, because within five years or so of graduation, some of my classmates found themselves Webmasters of their organizations' fledgling forays onto the Internet. More and more of us had to figure out what this "Web" thing was, so we could educate our organizations about it. That may have been the beginning of what has become very common in our careers - learning about the latest thing so we can teach others. People often talk about things they didn't learn in library school. Some of them are kind of funny or rueful, like "how to fix a photocopier." Some of them, though, are kind of panicky, and once you trip over one, they seem to come faster and faster, piling up on each other. If you didn't learn about social media, or being a freelance librarian, or whatever the next thing is, you may find yourself left behind, wondering how the profession managed to change so much, so fast. Like a librarian I knew of in the 80s, who kept the whole card catalog in her garage after the library changed over to an OPAC, many of us may try to hold onto the familiar. That way, though, lies a dead-end career,
44 BEST PRACTICES 2012 cowering in a long-held job, fearing that the job may change or disappear before retirement. It's better to get up and start running - even if you don't catch up to the cutting edge of the profession, you'll be further on than you would have been otherwise. There isn't a lot of time for professional reading in most librarians' lives, but it becomes more and more important to do it. Set up an RSS feed of some forward-thinking blogs; follow some of the better-known tech-capable librarians on Twitter; go to conferences, attend units on products you've never heard of, and see what the vendors are presenting. And, always, be ready to change direction at a moment's notice to stay ahead of your users. --------------------- Follow Caryn on Twitter: @CarynSWE. Find Caryn on Linkedin. Originally posted on the Government Info Pro on October 14, 2011 | Permalink
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