Slides from my talk at the New Professionals Day.

1. Around the world twice on a library degree Phil Bradley http://www.netvibes.com/philbradley

8. But...

11. Use the difficulty

14. "He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon." Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode, "Never Kill a Boy on the First Date."

15. Because... Libraries are not about books Libraries are about reading Libraries are about information Libraries are about power

16. Librarians Are powerful people!

17. All other professions come to: Teachers Librarians

18. Or to put it another way: "Show me a computer expert that gives a damn, and I'll show you a librarian." Patricia Wilson Berger (Quoted in Chicago Tribune article, 29 June 1990, Tempo section, p. 1) "Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books."Guy Browning(The Guardiancolumn, 18 October 2003.)

19. We can deal with: 1,253 tweets per second 25 billion pieces of information shared on Facebook per month 24 hours worth of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, 2 billion viewed per day 133 million blogs, 900,000 posts per day 4 billion images on Flickr (13x more than LC)

20. What is power now? Knowledge? Information? Knowing how to find something? Knowing how to arrange information?

21. NO! Power is

22. Reputation! Increase your reputation by giving away information Be proactive Don’t take no for an answer Use your enthusiasm

23. Where is your reputation?

25. Namechk.com

26. You are self employed Though perhaps you haven’t realised it yet It’s your responsibility to make sure that you’re up to speed Act as your own boss 9-5 is history

27. Think for the long haul Where will the profession be in 2050? Where will the internet be? What will information and libraries look like?

28. What did it look like 30 years ago?

32. Illustration by Albert Robida, for « The End of the Books » by Octave Uzanne, published in Scribner's Magazine, vol. 16, no 2, August 1894

33. So, looking forward Few, if any books No newspapers No magazines No search engines No internet Embedded chips ?????

35. Please remember! “Librarians must be like Krishna and descend into the world to combat ignorance” ShiyaliRamamritaRanganathan “The librarian must be the librarian militant before (s)he can be the librarian triumphant” Melvil Dewey

36. Around the world on a library degree

37. Oh the fun!

38. Thanks to: http://www.carbonblueprints.org/project_reforest.html (For the world image) http://www.flickr.com/photos/vermininc/2303896197/ (rat image) http://www.flickr.com/photos/29560353@N08/2876311749/ (AK47 image) http://www.flickr.com/photos/vattenfall/3588611650/ (Powerplant image) http://www.flickr.com/photos/malova/1932058673/ (Hotel image) http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobo1522/2587309158/ (Miami beach) http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcgreer/3794118835/ (Passport) http://www.flickr.com/photos/betta_design/2086852016/ (TajMahal) http://www.flickr.com/photos/9574086@N02/1221478663/ (ZX81) http://www.flickr.com/photos/pnrml/3963206504/ (Acoustic coupler) http://www.paleofuture.com/display/ShowImage?imageUrl=%2Fstorage%2F590201+closer+than+we+think+paleofuture.jpg (future from the year 1959) http://twitpic.com/19792p (Telephone objections) http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/11893/xander%20harris.jpg (Xander Harris) Funny quotes from http://www.laughinglibrarian.com/siglibn.htm http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/File:The_End_of_Books_-_page_228a.jpg (Early iPod)