The Librarian and the Management of Information Overload

Carnley, Peter

Australian Library Journal 2002 51 (4)1223
(ReLIS:jul:juljuh:y:2002:v:51:i:4:p:1223)

Abstract:

First, I must thank you for the invitation to address this Conference. It is a great privilege, though I have to tell you that I was originally a little reticent about accepting it. This was purely because of self-doubt: I asked myself what on earth I knew about librarians and those who manage information, and their profession, and whether I might have any qualification at all to be standing here. Upon a little reflection, however, it occurred to me that in fact I at least have experience on my side. I have spent a good deal of my life in libraries. Apart from the regular but more occasional use of libraries during my teenage years (both the school library and the local town municipal library), I did a four year Arts Degree at the University of Melbourne, two years in a theological College and then three years as a research student in Britain. That makes nine years of my life as a full-time post-secondary student, nearly 17 per cent of my living years, in which I was in a library almost on a daily basis. So, I have come to appreciate over recent days that a good deal of my own formation as a literate human being has occurred in libraries. If experience counts for anything, that is at least something.

Keywords: Australia ; Bibliotecarios ; Gestión de la información
Pages: 1223
Volume: 51
Year: 2002
Issue: 4

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