Top ten for 2010 and 2011

Top 10 things good and bad for 2010 of some librarianship importance

1. The closure of public libraries around the world due to funding cuts (especially in the UK)
2. The building or renovation of hundreds of school libraries under the federal government’s Economic Stimulus Package
3. The inexorable rise of the e-book
4. The inexorable rise of Trove
5. WikiLeaks
6. The Internet filtering debate
7. The Australian declaration of open government
8. The appointment of the Australian Information Commissioner
9. The retirement of Jan Fullerton
10. Justin Bieber

What would be nice in 2011

1. A change in worldwide government policies to protect library funding
2. The person to be appointed DG of the National Library to be a librarian
3. A proper role for libraries in the NBN implementation
4. E-book readers for sale below $100
5. RDA to be adopted
6. A federal coordinating body created to oversee libraries and library funding
7. Public lending of e-readers to become widespread
8. Er…
9. That’s it

Library top tens for 2010

Herewith are two contributions to the ALIA top ten initiative at: http://top10for2010.wordpress.com/

Top ten reasons why it is great to be a librarian on 10/10/10.

1. Librarians are the information professionals in the ‘information age’
2. Librarians #1 role is still to help people
3. Technology is allowing librarians to disseminate information wider and faster than ever before
4. Librarianship skills are now required across a wide spectrum of professions, not just in libraries
5. Librarians can work in libraries (with other librarians!)
6. Librarians get to spend all day online (mostly)
7. Librarianship is an exciting ever changing and expanding science
8. Librarians and their libraries create community
9. Librarians get the chance to work with knowledge, information and data
10. Librarians (mostly) “don’t be evil”

 

Top ten names used for Libraries for 10/10/10.

1. Library
2. Information Centre / Center
3. e-library
4. Knowledge Centre / Center
5. Information Resource Centre / Center
6. Community Resource Centre / Center
7. Learning Centre / Center
8. Ideas Store
9. Knowledge and Learning Centre / Center
10. Cybrary