This is a call to arms for libraries, inspired loosely by the famous SHIFT HAPPENS deck. Feel free to embed it anywhere and everywhere, with attribution. Come on people! This is libraries' time!

1. the time for libraries is NOW thewikiman

2. first, some info about THE WORLD First Some info about the world.

3. We already know Shift Happens we already know that shifthappens

4. What does this mean for the information profession?

5. What does this mean for the information profession? People of the world you need us now more than ever.

6. consider this

7. THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE ALIVE

8. THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE ALIVE THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE ALIVE THAN DEAD

9. WTF? WTF?

10. More people are alive now, than have lived and died in the entirety of human history put together

11. More than 150 million people will be born this year... More than 150 million people will be born this year…

12. More than 150 million people will be born this year... More than 150 million people will be born this year… …they will be born into aninformation economy

13. Never has information been so important.

14. Never has technology been so focused on the access of information.

15. The world has never changed so quickly

16. The top 10 jobs of 2010 didn’t exist in 2004.

17. Who can provide up to date info on these roles for which none of us are educated

18. because the jobs didn’t exist when we were educated?

19. Correct!

20. Libraries can.

21. Over 2 billion people use the Internet now

22. Libraries can help people use it safely

23. Libraries can help people use it safely and use it well

24. Libraries can provide accessto it

25. Libraries can provide accessto it across the digitial divide

26. Take a look at http://www.worldometers.info

27. Take a look at http://www.worldometers.info (It’s okay, I’ll wait.)

28. How many have there been today? searches

29. How many 1 billion? 2 billion? have there been today? searches

30. By the end of the day it’ll be over 3 billion

31. Want to know a secret?

32. Librarians used to be a bit scared

33. Librarians used to be a bit scared of

34. But now we are evolving

35. The evolution of library man Before: Threatened by / dismissive of Google >>>>> Before: threatened by / dismissive of Google the three ages of library man

36. The evolution of library man Before: Threatened by / dismissive of Google >>>>> Now: yes Google is useful, but you need libraries too the three ages of library man

37. The evolution of library man Before: Threatened by / dismissive of Google >>>>> Next: you know what, just let us help you use Google better... the three ages of library man

38. Because we live in a world of INFORMATION OVERLOAD

39. If a week’s worth of the New York Times

40. Contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th century...

41. Then now more than EVER the world needs information professionals to sort, assess, collate and present information

42. If a we’re to generate more unique information this year we

43. If a we’re to generate more unique information this year we 000 Than in the previous 5000 YEARS put together

44. Then now more than EVER the world needs information professionals to sort, assess, collate and present information

45. If things move so fast thatthe stuff studentslearn in their first year of University

46. If things move so fast thatthe stuff studentslearn in their first year of University is outdated by the time they graduate…

47. Then now more than EVER the world needs information professionals to sort, assess, collate and present information

48. Then now more than EVER the world needs information professionals to sort, assess, collate and present information EDUCATION IS ONGOING

49. It has never been easier to access information without libraries

50. Yet information professionals have never been so vital

51. TOO MUCH INFORMATION

52. is as bad as too little

53. We’ll help you with either.

54. We can help you navigate through the tyranny of choice.

55. We can help you navigate through the tyranny of choice. Information overload is your enemy.

56. Librarians are your friend…

57. Librarians are no longer the gatekeepers of information

58. The gates are wide open. We’ll show you the path once you’re through them.

59. We used to be the information vault

60. Now we’ve become the launchpad

61. We will subscribe to e-journals, purchase e-booksand audio-books, and pay for access to databaseson your behalf

62. We will subscribe to e-journals, purchase e-booksand audio-books, and pay for access to databaseson your behalf

63. We will give your communitysomewhere safe and comfortable to go

64. (We’ll even let you drink coffee in the library now…)

65. We’ll entertain your kids

66. We can teach you about all kinds of stuff

67. We will help you find a job

68. And we still have, you know, books, too.

69. Sometimes, people knock libraries “The demise of libraries is well overdue” - Frank Skinner, The Times, September 2010

70. Then they actually go to one… “Why I’m on a new page with local libraries – it was my ideas that were dog-eared, not the places themselves.” - Frank Skinner, The Times, October 2010

71. Have you been to yours recently?

72. Have you been to yours recently?I bet it is way cooler than you imagine. Vancouver public library

73. Have you been to yours recently?I bet it is way cooler than you imagine. Humbolt University Library, Berlin

74. Have you been to yours recently?I bet it is way cooler than you imagine. Seattle Public Library

75. Have you been to yours recently?I bet it is way cooler than you imagine. Stockholm Library

76. Have you been to yours recently?I bet it is way cooler than you imagine. National Library of Spain

77. Have you been to yours recently?I bet it is way cooler than you imagine. Vancouver Public Library (interior)

78. Maybe it has changed its name. But don’t get too caught up in that.

79. Libraries are changing to suit you.

80. We’ve always been about providing information. That information used to be mainly in books.

81. We’ve always been about providing information. That information used to be mainly in books. Now it’s in all kinds of things.

82. We’ve always been about providing information. That information used to be mainly in books. Now it’s in all kinds of things. We try and give you access to all of ‘em.

83. So.

84. Come on in.

85. NOW The time for libraries is Ned Potter

86. NOW The time for libraries is Ned Potter For ideas about information, go to thewikiman.org/blog

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