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Will Journalists Do the Work of Librarians?
November 17, 2008
Journalists could play a role that librarians long have (or should have) played, according to Bree Nordenson's article "Overload: Journalism’s battle for relevance in an age of too much information," in the November/December issue of the Columbia Journalism Review (test not online).
She writes:
Moreover, the flood of news created by the production bias of the Internet could, in the end, point to a new role for journalistic institutions. "We're expecting people who are not librarians, who are not knowledge engineers, to do the work of knowledge engineers and librarians," says Jonathan Spira, CEO and chief analyst for the business research firm Basex and an expert in information overload. In other words, most of us lack the skills--not to mention the time, attention, and motivation--to make sense of an unrelenting torrent of information. This is where journalists and news organizations come in.
Posted by Norman Oder on November 17, 2008 | Comments (1)
