Killing Librarianship


What might kill our profession is not ebooks, Amazon or Google, but a lack of imagination. We must envision a bright future for librarians and the communities they serve, then fight to make that vision a reality. We need a new activist librarianship focused on solving the grand challenges of our communities. Without action we will kill librarianship.
http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/Presentations/2011/NELA.pdf

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