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Militant Segregationists, Control Freaks, And Techno-Believers, Craighton T. Hippenhammer
Militant Segregationists, Control Freaks, And Techno-Believers, Craighton T. Hippenhammer
Faculty Scholarship – Library Science
Twenty-first century librarians need to be comfortable with and knowledgeable in technology. Library departments that don't integrate technology into the way they operate are likely to be eliminated along with their librarians. Librarians who have special expertise, especially technical expertise, need to be free to exercise it and use it without being dragged into library tasks that do not use those skills. If librarians do not get out in front of the new technologies that deliver information, then they will be giving up their libraries to techno-businesses that will spring up to fill the information gap. Librarians must retain or …