THE COMING OF AGE OF THE DIGITAL NATIVES WILL ADD TO CHALLENGES ALREADY FACING LIBRARIANS AND FORCE THEM TO ENGAGE INFORMATION USERS AND ADD VALUE TO THEIR ORGANIZATIONS.
| BY DEREK LAW |
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Constantine Cavafy's 1904 poem "Waiting for the Barbarians" provides a useful metaphor for where libraries now find themselves. Decked in our professional finery, we wait for the digital natives to arrive. The danger is that by waiting and not acting, we will, like Cavafy's senators, find that the barbarians never come, because they have passed us by as being irrelevant.
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