Full Tilt

Cohort 7 is a metaphor for the field of librarianship. We students have too much information thrown at us. How do we manage it? How do we prioritize, process, store it all? How do we retrieve and apply what we have gleaned? The challenges are overwhelming. Perhaps those of us most technologically deficient benefit in some way. We can FEEL the crisis in our gut. We ARE out of control, and we know it.

Librarians face special challenges today, and with these challenges come opportunities. As we master the crafts of our profession and learn to face head on the changes in the world of information processing, we need not confine ourselves to going with the flow. We must also seize opportunities for impacting the surge and direction of this wildly cascading deluge of information.