Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 18:30:00 -0700
New journal article in The Serials Librarian, by Sidney Eng of Hostra University Library, "The Library Profession in the Time of Open Access": http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/fmKErCJ8TJtKrAZ58eki/full The article offers a thoughtful and nonpolemical review of the state of play with particular reference to the question whether librarians risk putting themselves out of business by supporting creation of a world in which ideally everything is notionally available in a transparent, frictionless economy. To transpose to a familiar metaphorical world, do we risk going the way of buggy-whip salespeople, or do we become as essential in the new information economy as in the old. Worth reading.
Jim O'Donnell
Arizona State University