In the book Bite-Sized Marketing by Nancy Dowd, Mary Evangeliste, and Jonathan Siberman, the authors lay out "The New-Media Marketing Manifesto." One statement of this manifesto illustrates which type of librarian we should all strive to be:
I will remember that my job is not to convince people that they need libraries but to convince libraries that they need people (p. 17).Let's all repeat that a few times.
3 comments:
Great post!! My thoughts exactly!
That is so true! Sadly, we still have one or two members of library staff (not librarians though) that feel that way. I don't imagine they'll be around much longer.
Adorei essa observação, sobre os dois tipos de bibliotecários!!!
Um precisa do outro, mas tem sempre um lado que é o fiel da balança.
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