![]() ![]() I also submerged myself in several ALA (American Library Association) conventions and one called Computers In Libraries before I succumbed to information sickness. ![]() Library Journal was a wonderful source every year it designates the young “Movers and Shakers” who are reshaping librarianship, and more than one of my subjects received this honor. I did not have trouble finding great librarians I had trouble choosing among them all. I asked all sorts of librarians to recommend colleagues who they felt were doing visionary work, and they flooded me with suggestions. Librarians are the most organized, networked, literate people around, and they love to help. How did you go about finding the many libraries and librarians you wrote about? ![]() What’s it like to be a librarian in the digital age? Lots of librarians are charging into that wild frontier and reshaping and reinventing the profession, and I wanted to talk to them before they hit the obit page, or I did. The explosion of information and information delivery systems meant that library science was exploding, too. You can read about all sorts of work in the obituaries, from rocket scientists to mule divers, but the obituaries for librarians made me feel as if I were missing some extraordinary people at a crucial moment in their profession. How did you jump from that subject to writing about librarians? ![]()
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