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Library: Our Story, Our Time, Our Future
The Romance of Libraries:
Celebrating The End of Intelligent Endeavour?
By JOHAN JAAFFAR
ICOLIS 2014
4 – 5 November Boulevard Hotel. Kuala Lumpur
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Libraries are DEAD…
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Afghanistan, 1989
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Afghans Don’t Wear Glasses
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Journalism is too serious a profession to be judged by
anyone else…
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The Romance of Journalism…
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My belief…
Freedom of the press
is a virtue
not a license to abuse
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Interesting Topic
“Abuse of library materials in the main library at the University of
Peradeniya, Sri Lanka: An overview of the library staff.”
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You Are…
…the cream de la cream
among the species
that roamed the land of the quiet, the space of the learned
and the hall of the clever…
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In 1960…
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The Apostle of Greatness
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The Oxford English Dictionary
A librarian (noun):
“a person in charge of, or assistant in library.”
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Where I am today..
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About Branding…
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Prostitution is the oldest profession?
A librarian is!!!
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A Book is Published Every 30 seconds
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Titles Published
1450 - about 100 titles
1950s - 250,000 titles
2000 – 1 million titles
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564 years of book printing and publishing
50,000,000
Titles published…so far
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In August 6, 2010, Google’s advanced algorithms put the figure
129,864,880 books
in the entire world.
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The Movie…
The President of Facebook:
“We lived on farms,
then we lived in cities,
and now we are going to live
on the Internet.”
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Digital Vertigo by Andrew Keen
Today’s social media revolution
“is the most wrenching cultural transformation” since
the Industrial Revolution
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The Selfie Generation
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The 4 Challenges
The new spectrum of library users
The information overload millenials
New technologies replacing the old ones
The migration to digital libraries
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Infotopia?
The Internet is hailed as
the contemporary symbol of New Enlightenment
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The Truth…
“Google can bring you back
100,000 answers,
a librarian can bring you back the right one.”
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ICOLIS 2014 on NOW
“To rekindle our passion in providing services as the answer to uncertainties and fast-paced changes”
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A reminder…
Libraries must not compete with
the social media for reference and information
Leave commercial information setups alone.
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The Key…
Taking ownership
of KNOWLEDGE
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Moving Forward…
A New Mindset
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The Future is Now…
Information
Without Borders
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The Word Is…
Relevance
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Why the relevance?
The Internet has its limit
Digital libraries are not Wikipedia
Books are not dead, at least not yet
Libraries are not morgues
The Internet is not free
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The bad news is…
The Perception issue
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Why libraries?
Tested water,
not merely darkish or convoluted effluents that is
taken for granted as
TRUTH
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The Horror! The Horror!
Wikipedia kills Encyclopaedia Britannica
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The intellectual history of humans
Bring back the exuberance of knowledge to humankind.
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Last but not least…from Usman Awang
“Kota kebenaran penaung kebebasan ucapsuara
Dari ruang ini bersinar-sinar keagungan pemikiran
Menghayati teluk-teluk zaman demi zaman
Tanpa prasangka apa tanpa batas benua”
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The Translation…(more or less)
“The fortress of truth, champion of speaking freely
Excellence of thought shines here brightly
Debates through the times are examined closely
Without presumptions, crossing boundaries deftly”
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Good Luck
Thank You