Bob Sutton: In Praise of Librarians
In this post, Bob Sutton (Professor of Management Science and Engineering in the Stanford Engineering School) talks about evidenced based medicine, evidence based management, and the need for lbrarians.
Some highlights:
…I’ve realized that the rise of the web, blogs, Wikipedia, and all that easily available information might reduce the need for trips to the library for some of us, but – although their roles are changing – it has also made the need for librarians even greater than ever. There is an ever growing pile of information out there and it keeps getting harder and harder to tell what is true and what is not…
In short, although the rise of the web has changed what librarians do, it also means that we need them more than ever because there are so many facts out there now and they are so easy to get, and it is so hard to tell which ones to believe – and they actually care about facts and evidence, and know where to get them. Indeed, as I understand it, this partly why many major universities – like The University of Michigan and University of California at Berkeley – have renamed their old library schools to “Information” schools.
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March 28th, 2007 at 9:38 am
[...] Posted by Rachel on August 27th, 2006 Off Topic Professional Self-Promotion:Found via David, Stanford professor Bob Sutton offers this praise of librarians. [...]