January 25th, 2010:

Today I attended a Librarian as Consultant course. The overall message of the day was that as consultants librarians should be working to change the perception of our role from information provider to information adviser. I think one of the key challenges of this is getting our users to understand what skills we have and how we can use these to help them not only access information but evaluate and manage it as well. Throughout the day the thought that kept coming in to my mind was how this links to the echolib debate that is developing on Twitter. If [...]