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Quinn DuPont studies textual communication in cross-over disciplines such as typography, history, power, rhetoric, security, and technology. He has recently been studying information sabotage and developing a thesis about the social development of meaning. Quinn is currently an information architect in Toronto, Canada.

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Feb092009

The Future Librarian

KMWorld has an article about the Future of the Future, in which the future librarians will, it seems, work in corporations. They note that a lot of corporations have been removing their librarians, seeing them as merely collectors of dusty out-of-date books, and replacing the library functionality with CIOs and CKOs.

I don't think there is any denying the shift, librarians are still in demand in libraries, but they are seen in fewer and fewer corporate settings. Yet librarians, of a sort, are still in corporate settings, but under different guises: as those CIOs and knowledge workers in general. But, what this article is really pointing out is that despite whatever CMS or knowledge base your corporation decides to implement, you'll still need that semantic processing from a training librarian. Not only do the future librarians organize and locate content, they present it. Librarians will not be subject matter experts on their domain, but they will be experts.

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