Elämää erikoiskirjastoissa. Kameleonttina pärjää - miten tulla sellaiseksi?
by Anne Holappa
In: Kirjastonhoitaja tulevaisuudessa. Millaista osaamista kirjastot tarvitsevat? Ed.. Jaakko Korpisaari & Jarmo Saarti. Kirjastonhoitajien säätiön julkaisu, 2007, ss.34-40.
Educating eScience Librarians (2010)
Poster presented at the 6th International Digital Curation Conference "Participation & Practice: Growing the curation community through the data decade". Syracuse University: Jian Qin, John D’Ignazio, Megan Oakleaf, Kevin Crowston, Andrea Wiggins, Andreas Kuehn; Cornell University: Gail Steinhart
The digital library: The next Sigmoid curve of the information profession.
This paper was presented at the 1996 conference of The International Association of Technological University Libraries (IATUL) in Los Angeles, CA, USA
Although it cannot be stated as fact that the digital library is the next Sigmoid Curve of libraries, it will be folly... more
Although it cannot be stated as fact that the digital library is the next Sigmoid Curve of libraries, it will be folly for librarians not to consider this likely possibility very seriously and to ensure that they are prepared should it happen. The wise librarian must see to it that he has young up coming and dynamic leaders in his organization, prepared to ride the next wave so that the library may benefit.
What is clear at this stage, is that even if books and the traditional formats are not replaced by computer media, computer media, at the very least, will be a very important permanent supplement thereto. This point of view is based on the fact that the important thing about media is that they should be appropriate. Appropriateness is not an absolute concept, but it can be defined in terms of suitability for a purpose.
With the huge gap between the First and Third World, it stands to reason that the digital medium is not an appropriate one for the latter. The First World is thus closer to point Z on the curve and the Third World closer to point X.
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