Professional Reading: Farkas on Why Tech-savvy Librarians Are Needed in Public Services Positions

Meredith Farkas is one of the very best librarian-bloggers on the planet. On her blog, Information Wants To Be Free, you will find this recent post: Building 21st century librarians AND libraries. In it Farkas calls attention to the blurring between IT and public services and identifies a skills set --public services technologies -- that public services librarians need to provide patron services. I agree; public services librarians should know how to create, implement, and maintain features of social networking web communications that are pertinent to their library's mission and relevant for their patrons. [JH]