Thing #15 - Bye-bye Birdie

From Michael Stephens's Blog "One of the principles I would add to the Library 2.0 meme is that “the Library is human” because it makes the library a social and emotionally engaging center for learning and experience. " Please forgive my boldness at this next comment (and this may be the one comment on my blog that pulls the most responses), but it seems to me that the role of the librarian as the sweet-lady/man-that-can-help-you-use-a-card-catalog-or-find-a-book has gone the way of the dodo bird. We (that is teachers and students) need him or her to be our guide, not only in using the library as a learning tool, but also the constantly emerging and improving technologies that will move our students into the future, ESPECIALLY since our population (at least at my school) doesn't always have access to computers, etc. at home, and rely upon the school to meet their technological needs.