Sunday, August 21, 2011

Library as Living Room

An article in Britain's Globe and Mail, The Library is not Just a Book Warehouse Anymore," describes the shift of a public library from a repository of books to a community hub, and with it a new role for librarians.  Diana Guinn, a public librarian from Vancouver suggests that we “think of [librarians] as knowledge and information curators – we bring together the best resources from across all dissemination platforms together for our patrons.”