Interestingly, Dr Tomer spoke about how librarians of the future need to have technology skills and I had a post idea about the same topic. It seems regular folk who are librarians and have a sense of content areas (etc) will have to develop technology skills in order to best serve libraries. Perhaps this is true. Maybe the hardcore tech folks will need to have an intermediary that speaks with both them and the library folks so things can get done. This is a common role in other industries where tech people have a hard time communicating with regular folk and regular folk have a hard time speaking tech language, so a project manager acts as the go-between.
I'm not advocating for another layer of work, rather that librarians need to be lifelong learners, especially with technology.
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