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Both the private and public sectors have been steadily downsizing and closing their physical libraries, which some consider to be nothing more than warehouses that take up space and lose money.
The Future Librarian
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.