{"id":167,"date":"2007-02-02T22:50:54","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T13:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/02\/obsolete-librarians\/"},"modified":"2007-02-02T22:50:54","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T13:50:54","slug":"obsolete-librarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/02\/obsolete-librarians\/","title":{"rendered":"Obsolete Librarians?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peta, over at Innovate<\/a> has a great post today summarising all the good reasons why it’s great to be a librarian and why we will one day rule the world, Rumours of our imminent demise are greatly exaggerated<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I guess that Rod Serling<\/a> couldn’t have known that when he wrote “The Obsolete Man<\/a>“, which aired as a Twilight Zone episode in 1961. It was Library Link of the Day<\/a> for 1 February.<\/p>\n

Here’s the link to the episode at google video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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No spoiler alert, you’ll just have to watch it. Although I must say that I thought it prophetic when the obsolete librarian told the state that it now had everything “categorized, organized and tagged”. Maybe del.icio.us<\/a> WILL result in our “liquidation”?<\/p>\n

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If you’re wondering where you’ve seen Wordsworth before, look no further than Batman<\/a>. Burgess Meredith<\/a> was a much more manic and disturbing Penguin. I know which character I’d rather be locked with in a small book-lined room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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