{"id":20783,"date":"2011-06-28T11:01:58","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T15:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=20783"},"modified":"2011-06-28T16:10:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T20:10:32","slug":"the-futurist-interviews-librarian-futurist-david-lankes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/06\/28\/the-futurist-interviews-librarian-futurist-david-lankes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Futurist interviews librarian futurist David Lankes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfs.org\/content\/futurist-interviews-librarian-futurist-david-lankes\" target=\"_blank\">The Futurist interviews librarian futurist David Lankes<\/a> &#8212; from The World Future Society (July 2011 Update)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Libraries Move Beyond Books<\/strong><br \/>\nAs more information moves online, traditional libraries are losing  relevance, but librarians are becoming more important than ever. This is  according to R. David Lankes, author of<em> The Atlas of New Librarianship <\/em>(MIT  Press, 2011). Himself a librarian\u2014he is the director of Syracuse  University\u2019s Library and Information Science Program and an associate  professor in Syracuse\u2019s School of Information Studies\u2014Lankes sees  librarians\u2019 roles evolving into that of \u201cfacilitators of conversation\u201d  who interact with their communities to support each one\u2019s informational  and learning needs. Rick Docksai, staff editor for THE FUTURIST, spoke  with Lankes about his book and his views on libraries\u2019 future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>I predict that the future is going to be fewer libraries and more  librarians. The facility is transitioning from places where librarians  do their work and to places where communities meet and gather. The  physical space is simply where the librarians sit. The electronic medium  is where they can research and read.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Addendum later on 6\/28\/11:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spotlight.macfound.org\/blog\/entry\/the-digital-era-needs-human-guides-why-your-school-should-keep-not-cut-the-\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The digital era needs human guides: Why your school should keep, not cut, the Librarian<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from Spotlight on Digital Media &amp; Learning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Futurist interviews librarian futurist David Lankes &#8212; from The World Future Society (July 2011 Update) Libraries Move Beyond Books As more information moves online, traditional libraries are losing relevance, but librarians are becoming more important than ever. This is according to R. David Lankes, author of The Atlas of New Librarianship (MIT Press, 2011). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[498,37,87,327,206],"tags":[797,587,615,732,676],"class_list":["post-20783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communities-of-practice","category-future","category-learning-spaces","category-library-librarians","category-trends","tag-communities-of-practice","tag-future","tag-learning-spaces","tag-library-librarians","tag-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20783"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20823,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20783\/revisions\/20823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}