Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age: Interesting article for me, due to the fact that I work in an academic library. I work at a small college and although we have a great library we do not have any type of institutional repository. I actually have never heard of this. I think that larger, research based institutions would greatly benefit but my question is would other people outside of the school have access to the repository? I do think that having a safe, preserved, free place to "store" one's work would be a great benefit.
Digital Libraries and Dewey Meets Turing: I thoroughly enjoyed both of these articles. Dewey Meets Turing was funny and so so true- It and librarians are, trdaitionally, very different types of people. It was nice to see evidence that they both care about the same outcome, maybe just not the way to get there. It was encouraging to read articles that speak freely about the conflicts, some real, some manufactured, between librarianship and information technology. I think that for a long time people thought that librarians would not be needed with the internet and the web. This, as we all know, has turned out to be false but I do think that libraries and their approach to gathering and filtering information has had to change and develop in order to keep up with the changing technology. I think that IT is just as important as good librarianship technique.
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My undergraduate school does not offer graduate degrees, but does archive senior honor's theses, and where I work now offers MAs and MSs, and also archives those. Nobody from outside the school has ever asked to see one, but if you allow the library to archive them, we'll make them available to outside scholars.
I wholly agree with you. Libraries will have to change with evolving technology or they will be left behind in the information game. Librarians essentially still have the same job, they just need to comtinue to make adjustments so they can effectively help their patrons.
I think you're right that digitization and the internet at first seemed to threaten traditional librarianship Instead, it turns out that they have created a need for more skilled librarians with broader areas of expertise.
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