Stephen Abram

Librarians play a vital role in building the critical connections between, infromation, knowledge and learning. We are valued information specialist and we need to be at the fore front.
We need to overcome the fear of leadership, anti partner anti collaboration ethic, the distrust of size of an organization / Library and the ditruct of "for profit"  we don't want to live in a culture of victimization. We will not survive if we do.
So we can choose to be a viction and complain or we can create a future for ourselves and take collective responsibility for the conversation and development of our future.
Our customer mostly require the following knowledge as ranked in a recent survey in US Libraries.
Health & wellness
DIY
Genealogy
Local History
Legal questions
Gardening
Hobbies
Consumer reviews
Homework
Technology
Government
Self Help
Careers
We often believe a lot that is true, contrary to popular belief from a recent survey on trust places to find information

72% said they trust there their local library but 81% of users surveyed still use Google.
but again 82% said that was to uswe library provided online databases or online reference material. So Libraries are definitely still valued.
As technology advances librarians should keep up with the change. Librarians embolden technolgy and hold the key to find and retrieving the real information from the web.
We are the harvesters and providers the web is just in its infancy and librarians hold the key to lead the way.
People have changed and the way the use and find information has changed but we have to be there to lead the way.
Twitter and face book is used largely by the middle aged followed by the 13-25 year olds.
Online gaming is largely used by maothers in their thirties followed by 18-25 year olds.
ebook usuage is currently largely middle aged.
Mobile data usuage is growing beyond youth and is largely the workforce.