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Il solstizio dell’innovazione in biblioteca Export

Biblioteche oggi, Vol. 24, No. 8. (August 2006), pp. 19-23.

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As we are entering the information society, what are the challenges thatlibrarians have to face with? As a consultant and a trainer, the author has beenasked for answers to these questions quite often in the last ten years. Morerecently, she claims, the nature of these questions has changed: the focushas shifted from the technological side of innovation to the social andanthropological one. Feelings of distrust have spread among librarians alongwith pessimistic views about their digital future, particularly in Italy. The resultis a crisis of ideas, projects and concrete initiatives to manage innovations.How organizational culture and climate can adapt and cope with theconstruction of digital libraries?The author defines this current situation as “the solstice of innovation inlibraries” because libraries seem to be in a phase of their millenary history,rather cyclic, in which one can see the maximum distance between librarianspractices and attitudes and the innovations that lead huge social changes. Usinghistory of libraries and chronology of information society, also throughsynoptical graphical tables, she suggests that the feelings of distance betweenour professional culture and the information society agenda may appearjustified because we haven’t joined this digital bandwagon for years, worriedabout other purposes and problems (like universal bibliographic control, forinstance).At any rate, in the last ten years authoritative sources (Unesco, IFLA, OCLC)have changed the pace at which many librarians initiatives are coming into thenew dimension of the information society.


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